By Avital Norman Nathman
As a parent, I’m fully aware that I have a slew of
difficu
lt, but necessary, conversations with my son ahead of
me. We’ve already tackled one of the toughest: Where do babies come from?
Despite reading a variety of parenting books and blogs, I still wasn’t sure how
I would handle it when the time came, but at 3.5, when my son started asking
questions, I found it was actually pretty easy.
Using anatomically correct language for body parts and a story about how it takes an egg and some seeds to grow a baby, I was able to explain the process at an age-appropriate level (with minimal giggling on my part!), and provided enough information to answer his questions. Since then we’ve revisited the topic a few times when he thinks bits of my explanation through and has had follow up questions. We’ve had these conversations during bath time, while stuck in the car on long road trips, and yes, even once at the dinner table. What I thought would be a tricky conversation fraught with lots of “um…” and “er…” turned out to be pretty easy in the grand scheme of things.
Continue reading.
lt, but necessary, conversations with my son ahead of
me. We’ve already tackled one of the toughest: Where do babies come from?
Despite reading a variety of parenting books and blogs, I still wasn’t sure how
I would handle it when the time came, but at 3.5, when my son started asking
questions, I found it was actually pretty easy. Using anatomically correct language for body parts and a story about how it takes an egg and some seeds to grow a baby, I was able to explain the process at an age-appropriate level (with minimal giggling on my part!), and provided enough information to answer his questions. Since then we’ve revisited the topic a few times when he thinks bits of my explanation through and has had follow up questions. We’ve had these conversations during bath time, while stuck in the car on long road trips, and yes, even once at the dinner table. What I thought would be a tricky conversation fraught with lots of “um…” and “er…” turned out to be pretty easy in the grand scheme of things.
Continue reading.
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