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 totally joking right??

Lost innocence because he knows how animals reproduce?

At the age of 7??

Really??

Surely they will have talked about this in school? And it is not adult literature it is an encyclopedia. YABVU

My ds kew the facts of life by the age of 7 - he was innocent, just armed with correct information. Facts don't make them any less innocent. YABU and frankly, ridiculous.

I'm sure his dad didn't tell him about sexual acts - the biological facts aren't damaging to children.

Just wait til he has sex ed at school; it showed two cartoon people humping on a bed and spoke about rubbing penises and clitorises feeling "nice" and being "good" - children were expected to watch this at 8 years old!!!

Of course by the age of 7 your DS is going to be wondering where babies come from. And he'll be asking questions, and working things out - all children do that. My DCs all knew about the sperm and the egg by 7. Why wouldn't they? It's nature, it's science.

It sounds like his father has responded well with appropriate literature. Your problem is not the father - you need to have a bit of a think about your attitude a) to natural questioning and curiousity and b) to your immediate link between sex and "inappropriate".