http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34843024/ ... nd_family/

"here, have a big cookie"

so parents...how did you handle this stuff when (if) it came up?

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"That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat."

Driver of the FIRE LINDY RUFF Bandwagon since 2008.

As the father of a 3 and 5 year old, I will tell you what I do...I'll tell them the word penis and vagina, but will only refer to them this way:

Penis = Pee-pee
Vagina = Front tushy

Mrs. ETC goes with penis/vagina exclusively, and thinks I'm a complete idiot for not going there, too. I'm just uncomfortable in using graphic anatomy language with kids that little because they aren't old enough to use discretion.

When Mrs. ETC protests I reply,"What do you call feces after they make?"

"Doody", she says.

"What do you call the anus when they need to wipe?"

"Tushy", she'll reply.

I rest my case.

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Always let your own young children see you naked at least once. They will then go through life thinking their Dad has a huge one!!

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"I'll rap you with my cane; you pencil necked geek!!"

-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.

Let them learn about on the street.

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"I'll rap you with my cane; you pencil necked geek!!"

-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.

^^

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Hold my beer and watch this...

front tushy nicely done sir

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"That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat."

Driver of the FIRE LINDY RUFF Bandwagon since 2008.

for some reason my cousins keep asking me and not their mother (i'm glad they don't their father cause he is a piece of trash and i don't care who hears me say it). i always tell them the why it is done (long lecture usually bores them such that they find something else to do), i'm not going to tell them how to engage.

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"Tis The Season, Fa la la la la LaFontaine" - Rick Jeanneret

I remember my mom telling my brother and I when I was in like 2nd grade. I guess he and I were arguing over where babies come from, and my mom was just like, "Eh, better just tell them now."

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

Who then turns it around and says "Go ask your father".
LMAO

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"Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."
"You can't polish a turd."

My parents new really gave me the talk. They told me where babies come from as far as that a woman gives birth to them, but never had a talk about sex with me. My dad told me on a couple occassions that if I ever had any questions, he was there, but that's it.

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"I don't need to tell you. You're riding the bus to school next year."

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Do you believe yet?

I just figured it out when I was seven. I still remember the moment of realization. It didn't hurt, though, that I had absolutely no misconceptions about anatomy because I had two younger brothers at the time, and I often bathed with them + we'd run around the house naked (though I was younger than seven when I stopped doing that lolol) because that's what little kids do. All my existent cousins but one were boys at that point, too, and the ones I played with and I are all within four years of each other in age, so, you know, that was never a mystery for me.

I did confirm my suspicions, though, by looking up "sexual intercourse" in the dictionary, just to be sure.

When I was eight, my mother came into my room one night as I was going to bed and awkwardly tried to explain the basics. She used the correct terminology, penis and vagina and all of that. She explained periods and what their function is and blah blah blah. I was like, "I already know this," but I just let her talk to get it over with.

What I end up doing with my own children depends on how perceptive they end up being and how close they are in age, what genders they are, etc. Got a pretty perceptive kid with a sibling of the opposite sex within two years of age and aren't a paranoid weirdo about nudity? Yeah, they'll probably figure it out fairly young. I still plan on talking about it, though, around the age of seven or eight, just to explain how sex leads to babies. If they don't know what sex is by that point, I'm sure they'll be curious enough to ask because children really have no embarrassment when it comes to that the way they suddenly do when they hit about age ten. If they already know, they won't ask, and I won't need to make it awkward for them. I'll know they have it down for sure when I have eleven and twelve-year-old boys that turn into little pervs.

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+2
::shakes head in agreement::

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"Sarcasm and cynicism: Just two of the many services I provide."
"Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."
"You can't polish a turd."

I was the youngest, so I think my mom really wanted me in a bubble for the longest time. I don't think this was the best strategy because as a teenager I had my acting out phases, but for the most part I was incredibly naive as a kid.
I hit puberty when I was in like 4th grade, and I had noo idea about anything, and eventually my mom just bought me a book. I actually just found it the other day, and it's incredibly awkward. We read it together, but I have no idea how weird cartoon sex is easier to talk about than the real deal.

Eh I like my dad's way (he was the weekend when convienent parant).............make sure u have cinnemax, hbo, and when out for the night tell the kid to order whatever he wants...........he'll learn.


Mom was more talkative and book graphic type................It was a good combo.


Wife doesnt like my idea for a girl.........Hand her 3 books "What to expect when your expecting" "Nina hartly's guide to sex" and "Why pregnancy belongs after college"


I'll be damned if they all arent good books.

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Gotta love cable...when my, then, 7-year-old son asked me, "what's an orgasm?" I said, "I don't know, I've never heard that word before..."

I'm so chicken...

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Mom let Dad do the talking when I was...christ, 12 or 13, maybe...and he was pretty much plain as day about it. I'll be taking that approach with Joshua. Worked out fine for me.

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mechaphil

I still don't know how it all works.

Haha, just kidding...but seriously, it's like magic, right?

i just found my old mans playboys and had a look through in those. then we got the internet, so, porn it was.

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