I'm a single parent.
I've always tried to be honest with my dd (except about Santa! ), in an age-approprate manner. She's five in a matter of weeks.
She knows babies come out of vaginas (sometimes stomachs) and not via a magical key that unlocks your belly button (like my mum told me and i believed until i was 12!)
And she also knows that you need a man and a lady to conceive a baby (but she also knows about adoption and that same sex people can have babies).
But now she's decided she wants me to have another baby, and is on the man hunt!
It might sound daft, but it's really putting me on edge. We were at my mum's for tea the other week and she asked my DAD if he'd help me have a baby!!
I was mortified and my dad looked utterly revolted. I tried to laugh it off and i explained to her you're not allowed to have babies with your family.
Every time we're out, she'll stop random men and ask them to have a baby with me. She asked a dad at school this morning - and that was the last straw. I am so embarrassed.
DD has ASD, high functioning, and I've repeatedly asked her to stop this. I've told her I don't want another baby, and that she might get to be a big sister one day when she's older, or have her own babies.
But she still kept on.
So then i decided to ignore it, thinking this would help - she's only doing it to annoy me. But it didn't help at all.
Then i started getting stern, removing toys each time, but this didn't work. She just got so upset and confused about why i was telling her off.
I asked my mum for advice this afternoon and she said it's my own fault. I shouldn't have told her 'too much too soon'.
But surely lots of other 4/5yos are aware a woman can't make a baby on her own?
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To think i shouldn't have told 4yo dd how babies are made?
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DowntonNappy · 05/12/2012 13:45
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