to tell father how to parent?

[Flojo1979]

My gorgeous, naive, innocent 7 yo DS told me this evening that if one of our female guinea pigs turns out to be a boy then we'll have babies guinea pigs. Really? I asked.
He that went on to tell me, boys have sperm and they look like tadpoles and they give them to the girls and they swim to the egg etc etc. "Daddy bought me an encyclopedia last wk and it tells me all about it in there".
AIBU to be fuming that he buys him adult literature? AIBU to think it highly inappropriate? AIBU to tell him he's a complete tosser who doesn't have the first f....... idea?
Kids lose their innocence quickly enough these days surely. Pls for gods sake let kids be kids.

You are joking, right?

You'vs posted this twice and I hope you are joking in both threads.

erm, what's wrong with a 7yr old knowing the basic facts about where babies come from?

Um...is this for real?
If so...whaaaa??

Adult literature? It's hardly 50 Shades love get a grip.

Oh Blimey, his Innocence has really been Shattered. It was not right for you to call your DH a tosser. Now you will have to explain what it means

I posted this on the other thread (trust me to pick the wrong one)

You are totally joking right??

Lost innocence because he knows how animals reproduce?

At the age of 7??

Really??

Umm I don't know why it did it twice. Oops!

Not joking no. They teach this in sex ed to children only when they reach high school. Why not younger? Cos I'm sure most parents would be up in arms saying how inappropriate and unnecessary it is at 7.

Wait....

Maybe the OP means she wants to tell the Guinea pig how to parent?

I'm all for that....the feckless bastards.

Oh do behave!

They teach reproduction in Infant schools.

If they waited til Seniors, there'd probably be babies and STDs all over the bloody place.

Not to mention Guinea pigs

I'd be very proud of him in your shoes.

Learning it, remembering it, and discussing it in a sensible manner with you.

Have another for your collection.

Sex ed is sex ed. Basic biology with tadpoles and eggs is just biology. Did he tell him about PIV sex? No?

DH ! Good god no, sorry I guessed you'd have realised there's no love lost between me and the poor excuse for a father.

They teach the basics of sex ed at Primary. Age 8 AFAIK.

It's good that your son is interested in science. Sorry it makes you feel icky.

HAte to break it to you but they do sex ed LONG before high school and thank God they do with people like you around so kids are properly taught!

Oh dear well perhaps someone should have alerted you to the whole egg/sperm issue then. He may be a tosser but I don't think he's wrong on this one.

It sounds as though your dislike for his father is clouding your judgement in this particular incident.

Buying a child an encyclopedia is not bad parenting.

I am clearly a shit parent too since my 8yo knows how babies are made and has done for over a year. I refuse to let her find out a load of crap from playground talk, DS also started asking at 7 and I told him too. And an encyclopedia - adult literature, really, its hardly 50 shades or Diary of a Callgirl.

and the bastard bought him a Book!

Leave the Bastard!

Oh no wait...you already have.

Could I have the title of this book please?

OP - there is nothing wrong or inappropriate about your son knowing about making babies at 7.
You are being really silly.
I explained it all in laymans terms to my ds1 when he was 5. He asked, so I told him.
What's your problem with it?

I'm amazed he could source an encyclopedia. It's all Google these days! I wish everyone would get less clutchy-pearls about sex. It's relationship that are the difficult bit. Sex is just how there are 7 billion of us.

I work in a primary school in yr 5 & 6 and def no lessons on reproduction in this school. Periods yes, puberty yes. Reproduction no, because they are too young!

And I'm not sure its going to go down well with other mums when he tells his friends all about sperm tomorrow.
Plenty if time for that, not at 7. I guess I'm in a minority! Oh well I suspected I might get flamed for telling Xp how to parent tho.