Our eldest son (8 years old) was running around the house the other day with a pencil between his legs.
"Put that pencil down," I tell him, "you'll pop one of your balls."
"I will not," he tells me lookin like I'm the stupidest guy on the planet.
"I would like some grandchildren someday, you know," his mom says shaking her head.
"What do balls have to do with making children?"
Jaws drop...
The wife and I look at each other.
"I'll handle this," I say as I take him upstairs to tell him the facts of life.
I will never forget the giggles on his face when I mention the penis going into the vagina. Also, being the scientific type he asks how that makes the babies.
Well, the amusement turns to utter disgust when he hears about sperm coming out of the penis and hitting an egg.
"That's yucky," he says.
The day will come too soon, when that isnt so yucky anymore. Hopefully it will still be years.
***AM your recent stories of DB inspired me to write this***
We just had that talk ourselves with the 6yo. We were looking at fetal pics on the net and there were several with the sperm and egg. She asked what the sperm was so I told her it was the boy part. Then she asked how the boy part got to the girl part. Well...
She said it's disgusting. I didn't argue.
I don't envy parents having to give the talk though... And having to do it more than once... yuckie!!!!