I didn't tell her about the birds and bees. I told her "you'll learn all about these in school when your teacher teaches you Science" hahahah!
Alycia finally asked me the dreaded question several days ago when she overheard me talking to hubs about it. Don't jump to conclusion, we weren't talking sexy or anything intimate ok. We're too old for that lol!! I was telling hubs that I read in the newspapers about how great our fertility specialist was (the doctor who helped us get Alycia via IUI). This doctor helped a woman conceive via IVF by implanting an embryo that's frozen for 10 years into her uterus!! Now, the baby girl is 1 year old. This case was recorded in the Malaysia's Book Of Record recently.
Back to Alycia. This was our conversation in the car:
A - mummy, what did you tell daddy?
Me - oh, I asked him what we should eat later. (I knew she'll grill me until she got the answer from me!)
A - No, what did you say about the doctor who made me?
Me - Oh, this doctor helped a woman get a baby by putting a 10-year old frozen egg (embryo) into her. Something like how he helped mummy get you.
A - How to put the egg inside?
Me - put into a syringe and inject inside.
A - Inject where?
Me - Inject inside stomach.
A - How to inject inside?
Me - through the pet pet (more refined way of referring to the down under to a young kid)
A - what did the doctor inject inside?
Me - you ask daddy.
A - daddy, what did the doctor inject inside mummy?
Daddy - SPERM.
A - what is sperm mummy? How to get sperm?
Me - next time you will learn in school when your teacher teaches you Science ok?
How do you explain this to your young child?
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5 comments:
Tough questions to answer esp when Alycia is still young. The advice that I've been given by my girls' teachers is to state the facts, use the proper names and don't over simplify for the young kids. But how to do this for kids as young as Alycia, not sure.
lol...my belle asked me yesterday why must girls bleed (menses). i told her the same thing too..."when you are older teacher will teach during science lesson." lol.
I find this article "Sex Education for Preschoolers - What Young Children Should Know About the Facts of Life" at this link :
http://earlychildhood.suite101.com/article.cfm/sex_education_for_preschoolers
very useful for my young niece and nephew.
I myself learn it from children's books when I was young. I don't remember my school teacher ever teaching us in science exactly how it happens. All the teacher said was the sperm meets the egg and baby is formed. She never tell us how the sperm gets to meet the egg.
Depends on how much the kid can handle. U know your own kid the best. With regards to sperm..just say it is something from dad or only boys, but the most important thing is "u were made with love and we both wanted u so much". It's the truth and it is something every kid wants to hear. May settle her for a while. May too young for graphic details at this age. I found out at abt age 10 and was totally repulsed by it!
tell her the truth. she will probably be so shocked that she wont ask you again for a long long time! hee hee thats wat i did for my kids, works everytime.
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