6 year old DS keeps asking where babies come from. What should I tell him??

[Inquisitiveson]

When I was young my mum and dad never bothered to have a chat with me about the birds and bees. I ended up having to find everything out on my own, after everyone else already knew. I feel like 6 is too young for him to be learning the exact details of conception though. Is it? What did you tell your DC when they started asking?

[TheLesserSpottedBee]

And 6 isn't too young, she is asking the question. Basic Daddy has a seed and Mummy has an egg and the two get mixed together and a baby is made. If she asks how they get mixed together, they have a special cuddle that grown ups do (that way she isn't freaked by cuddles)

It is just another fact, like how food gets from our mouth to our bottoms and these things are called toes, and this is called a penis but lots of people call it a willy/dangle/widgy.

[megletthesecond]

Just tell him (and no special cuddle nonsense). We read Where Willy Went in reception year and it got the basics done with good humour. I didn't wait for them to ask questions, they'd miss huge chunks of essential info if I left it up to them.

[FattyNinjaOwl]

My DS has just turned 7. He knows that babies are born through the vagina. He's known that for a while. He knows about periods. He's never asked about anything else. Even when pregnant no questions as to how the baby got there, just how it gets out.