How to teach children how babies are made without mentioning men and women...

[AnotherEmma]

I have a curious 6 year old, who's started asking a lot of questions about exactly how babies are made. So I've been looking for age-appropriate books. Turns out it's a bloody minefield. I'm sure it won't surprise any of you to discover that it's possible to buy children's books about making babies that don't mention men or women at all. Just, you know, that "some people" have sperm and "some people" have eggs. And people are buying these books and reading them to their children

SUCH COMPLETE AND UTTER INSANITY!

For a long time now, the best way to get a book publishing contract is to somehow make your book about the wants to trans activists. I don’t know why. But there are some very bad books out now that only got published because the authors agreed to shoehorn in a random trans character.

Hey, remember when British schools didn’t brainwash kids into supporting political views?

Sigh. Me too. I thought about it for a moment and then decided life (what remains) is too short.

I had to explain it to my DC more than once. Because apparently if they child isn’t developmentally ready to understand they will ask intermittently until they are

Or they'll forget about it entirely.

My younger sibling was astounded all over again in the first year of secondary school. When mum said, 'But I told you all this when you were six!' she got the immortal reply, 'Yes, but I didn't believe it, did I?'