The Birds and the Bees

[ImMeeMee]

Any good books to recommend to 8 year old girls to understand about birds and the bees?


TIA

[Sun_2010]

ImMeeMee:

Any good books to recommend to 8 year old girls to understand about birds and the bees?


TIA

I found this book very useful for DD
http://www.amazon.com/Its-So-Amazing-Families-Library/dp/0763613215/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343031184&sr=1-5&keywords=Puberty
Its available in the Nlb .

the author anticipates our shyness/discomfort and handles it with some humour , at the same time keeping the facts right and non-judgemental.

[ImMeeMee]

Sun_2010:

ImMeeMee:

Any good books to recommend to 8 year old girls to understand about birds and the bees?


TIA

I found this book very useful for DD
http://www.amazon.com/Its-So-Amazing-Families-Library/dp/0763613215/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343031184&sr=1-5&keywords=Puberty
Its available in the Nlb .

the author anticipates our shyness/discomfort and handles it with some humour , at the same time keeping the facts right and non-judgemental.

thanks will check it out.

[Apricot]

I chanced upon this good article in Reader's Digest. Though titled `Talking Sex with Teens', I think the tactic employed could be use for younger/older kids and for other purposes.



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[LOLMum]

Dd said I did a good job in talking about sex with her...


I would like to be the one to talk to ds too....

[Nihauma]

this happened recently.

DS: what is sex?
me: :yikes: how do u know this?
ds: my friend talked about it. he said it is a gross thing. so what is it?
me: i will tell u when u r in P6. (he is 8 years old)

weeks later

dS: i asked father what is sex. he told me but i dont understand what he means.
me: :yikes: what did he say?
ds : i dont know...something about kissing and other stuff...
me: :slapshead:
ds: is that why u didnt tell me? cause i wont understand anyway?
me: yes yes

after that i asked dh what he told ds. he said he told him word for word \"its a procreation process. When 2 person in love, express their love physically\"

no wonder he doesnt understand.

anyway 8 yrs old need to explain in detail about sex? i am thinking wait till he reaches puberty.

so when did your children asked u and what was ur answer?

[tankee]

DS asked about it when he was 8


I spoke to him factually and scientifically, then I shown him the following video. And told him that he is very special, being 1 out of the 300 million, and contains both mummy's & daddy's gene.

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[sundaymorning]

Apricot:

I chanced upon this good article in Reader's Digest. Though titled `Talking Sex with Teens', I think the tactic employed could be use for younger/older kids and for other purposes.



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Hi Apricot
Thanks for sharing !!
yeah probably will try that when its time to explain .

[Sun_2010]

tankee:

DS asked about it when he was 8


I spoke to him factually and scientifically, then I shown him the following video. And told him that he is very special, being 1 out of the 300 million, and contains both mummy's & daddy's gene.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OvgQW6FG4][/youtube]

That was very informative for my DS. He watched it a few times.
And he declared that he was the \"winner sperm\" :faint:

There is another Ted talk we saw Conception to birth -- visualized , its sort of the next part . The visualisation part starts at 2:00 min

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[Imami]

The winner sperm! :rotflmao:


I felt sad watching the video. It is just a lot of hard work for the. Whole pregnancy to take place, be established, developing from a tiny single cell to embro to zygote to feotus and then eventually a baby's birth. Each of our birth is just such a miracle. And yet, we still hv people who are aborting for selfish or senseless reasons :faint: or worse, abandoning newborns irresponsibly.

My sil just suffered a miscarriage. She was already in her second trimester. I remembered when I was in my second trimester, I could feel my son's movements, his blowing bubbles already... :sad:

Whenever I feel the miracle of life/procreation, I appreciate my winner sperm more.