Sensitive subject!

[Christmasberry]

My little boy has just asked why his Winkie points! What do we tell him? He is four.

[swallowedAfly]

that sometimes the blood flows to it and it stands up. why is this an issue for you? i'm amazed you've got to four before this discussion.

[Hassled]

Because sometimes it gets extra blood and that makes it bigger.

[Tee2072]

I've gotten to nearly four without this question!

[WeAllHaveWings]

Ds is 9 and has never asked why! I think he just accepted its something it does.

[CockyFox]

This was how the conversation went in our house DS aged about 2 or 3
DS: mummy my willy is broke
Me: what's wrong with it
DS: It is looking at the sky
Me: They do that
DS: Does Daddy's?
Me: yes
End of conversation, not sensitive or difficult.

[WeAllHaveWings]

Tell him you don't know because you don't have one and to ask his dad

[swallowedAfly]

ds was always going on about it standing up in the morning.

[Branleuse]

what beer tricks said.

it just does. now put it away

[Shodan]

Yup.

'That's just what willies do.'

[swallowedAfly]

also telling me when he can't pee because it's standing up.

[swallowedAfly]

my feeling is if you always talk about these things naturally and use them as teaching opportunities there's never any difficulty talking about things and the conversation develops as the years go by rather than suddenly having sex education talk in your teens.

[swallowedAfly]

ooh whilst we're here - do your sons know about periods? i'm amazed that men make it to adulthood without understanding female bodies given the interrogations i get.

[Christmasberry]

Thank you to the people who just answered without a dig!

[swallowedAfly]

i wasn't having a dig btw - i'm genuinely amazed people don't have these conversations. ds has always asked about stuff very naturally. i remember my sister telling me that her exhusband didn't know how periods worked and i couldn't believe his mother had managed to avoid that conversation his whole childhood. i've already had to explain 50 times over.

sorry if i sounded snarky christmasberry.

[swallowedAfly]

so he didn't ask btp?

[Tee2072]

Like I said my nearly 4 year old hasn't asked but he certainly talks about it a lot! Just not in that context.

[Struckachord]

Neither has my nearly 5 year old Tee.