I love this question! I have two kids (teens now)the girl is 15 and my son 13. I remember facing this dilemma when my daughter was 3 and I was pregnant with my son. She wanted to know why my belly was growing and was asking many questions. I really did not want to talk to her about "bees and birds" because I felt I was not being honest, but I wanted to protect her innocense too. But I also did not want to get too complicated by using grown up words that a little girl could not understand. So I went to the bookstore and bought the famous book by Lennart Nilsson "A Child Is Born". I sat down with my daughter and we browse through the pictures a few pages each time until we finished the book. The photos are so beautiful and show the whole gestational development of the baby real time. I explained carefully what each picture was about. She loved it so much that it became her favorite book and later on she was able to articulate very maturely the natural process of making babies.
I did the same with my son, but by then I had the sister who wanted to do all the explaining. A few years later a really cute movie came out with John Travolta "Look Who Is Talking", this was a hit at home and became my daughter's an all time favorite. She just rented it again a week or so ago.
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I love this question! I have two kids (teens now)the girl is 15 and my son 13. I remember facing this dilemma when my daughter was 3 and I was pregnant with my son. She wanted to know why my belly was growing and was asking many questions. I really did not want to talk to her about "bees and birds" because I felt I was not being honest, but I wanted to protect her innocense too. But I also did not want to get too complicated by using grown up words that a little girl could not understand. So I went to the bookstore and bought the famous book by Lennart Nilsson "A Child Is Born". I sat down with my daughter and we browse through the pictures a few pages each time until we finished the book. The photos are so beautiful and show the whole gestational development of the baby real time. I explained carefully what each picture was about. She loved it so much that it became her favorite book and later on she was able to articulate very maturely the natural process of making babies.
I did the same with my son, but by then I had the sister who wanted to do all the explaining. A few years later a really cute movie came out with John Travolta "Look Who Is Talking", this was a hit at home and became my daughter's an all time favorite. She just rented it again a week or so ago.
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