What word do you use for your son's testes?

[FrannyandZooey]

After a brief discussion dp and I can't come up with anything better than testes. Can you?

ChasingSquirrels I am still not entirely sure what you mean by graphic, sorry

I have found that the more graphic I can be when explaining this sort of thing, the clearer he seems about it and the happier in his mind

I wasn't going to do a real life demonstration or anything but I don't think there's any point in being vague when he is wanting to know something

and the emotional aspect of sex is quite confusing tbh

i had a book growing up that described 'sex' (can't remember the word they used) as being exercise like doing an 100 skips! i was amazed and have never forgotten the analogy.

LOL speccy

I am not mad keen on Babette Cole for this kind of thing

I think she is too surreal and confuses younger ones

for the older ones I think her toilet kind of humour is misplaced when talking about sex

it doesn't have to be all snigger snigger, they do enough of that amongst themselves without us getting in on the act I reckon

ok, probably a mix up on the use of graphic, you are using it to mean clear, I am using it to mean detailed, over sexualised images, porn vids, blah blah.
I went with "they mummy and the daddy have a special cuddle, the daddy's willy puts the sperm into the mummy, the mummy has an egg and the sperm and the egg start a baby", ds asked how the daddy put the sperm in the mummy, I said that a lady has another hole inbetween where they wee and poo (we had addressed this when I was pg - as where the baby was going out of) and the daddy willy goes in there.

Yes for divorce Babette is Brill
Buyt I prefer factual based real talk for kids about sex and so forth
We have been open and frank with ds, he is 13 but aged 6 he knew what a tampon was, not what is was for but what it was called.
He has also seen me breastfeed with gay abandon aged 9 and again now.
He knows far too much infact...

MerryMarigold, I had the same book! Did it have quite cartoony drawings? I think it was called Where Did I Come From? Following this thread with interest - DS asked how he got out of my tummy the other day but we haven't had the how did he get in there conversation yet [phew emoticon!]

Oh I just thought it was sweet, things like "and this happened so mummy could make you" type stuff [emotional]

When he was little we caqlled them bobbles????(i know) Now he is 13 I try to give them as little thought as possible which is difficult when he spends a lot of time with his hands down his trousers!

My ds has started to call his 'nuts'. Presumably he's got this from school, I was initally quite shocked and indignantly said 'what did you say?' Not sure what I DO want him to call them though.

WE had an interesting conversation lately where he asked me how babies came out, I explained about the special passage women have for this underneath near thier bottoms, he then asked 'can I see yours?!!'

I declined , but to him obviusly a reasonablerequest.

Ds has seen mine

Tatties I haven't seen that particular book but was basing my post on "Mummy Laid an Egg" and her health / humor book "Dr Dog", neither of which I liked that much

ChasingSquirrels I wasn't planning to show ds any porn vids

Oh DS wanted to see the special passage where he got out of my tummy too - oddly enough, I declined to show him... Very aware of DH laughing his head off silently while I was dealing with this conversation...

i call ds's penis his winkle
and his testicles his bollocks
he's 2.5yrs
sometimes i call the genital area his "bits"
eg: lets wash your bits
but i suppose there will come a point when i have to explain saying "bollocks" is not acceptable to some people

slayerette, that rings a bell. oh, i would love a copy. also had one called the body book, which had very graphic pictures. i remember the cross-section picture of the penis in the vagina - obv. filled me with some horror!

When ds had just turned 4, he asked me in the bath what's the name for these? I told him his dad calls them balls. Fast forward a couple of days, we're both in a (very busy) public lav, in next door cubicles. Ds shouts (very loudly), "mum, my balls ain't half itchy today." He had the place in stitches.

Fast foward a few years till recently (he's now 7), and he asks about sex. Like some of you are saying, me and his dad adopted the direct approach and told him straight, and introduced some anatomical words. He listened intently and paid lots of attention. After a while I asked him if he wanted to ask us anything. After a moment he said, "so dad, if you're putting your penis into mum's vagina .... (it started so sensibly).... how do you know it's not going up her bum instead?" "Don't worry son, she'll soon tell me" spluttered his dad.

i don't think i've ever referred to them as anything

gonads
balls
bollocks
testicles

My 2 and half year old in the bath lifted his willy up and repeatedly smacked his balls, asking what they were. I told him testicles. Now one of his favourite bathtime activities is smacking his balls shouting 'my tetticles, my tetticles!'

i'll have to buy this book now and see if it contains the 100 skips analogy... 100 skips

So you showed your DS your vagina Franny? legs open here's the hole and all?

When my Ds asked to see I imagined it might mentally scar him for life to carry around a mental image of his mother with legs opne talking him through her vagina.

I'm SO uptight

I might have to get it too! I learnt everything I know from that book (and Jackie magazine, of course...)Can't believe it's still around