The Birds and the Bees

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Re: The Birds and the Bees

@saimab33

I honestly thought you could have babies just by kissing until I was 11. I didnt know how it actually happened, until then, when they teach you in health class in school. At first I didnt believe it, because I was so sure that it happened by kissing, and I always thought sex was haram and not allowed in Islam, so it totally confused me. But I was too shy to ask anyone else, so I let it go. Then when I was 12, I was doing a project on AIDS, and my youngest Popoh (who is only about 12 years older than me) was helping me. So I asked her and she confirmed it for me.

Awkward moment - last year, my 12 year old cousin asked me about how babies were born, and if it was true that you had to have intercourse to have a baby. At first I got weirded out, but then I thought, if I dont tell her, I know her parents are not going to. Its better that she heard the truth from me, rather than whatever the kids in her class were going to tell her. She kept insisting that it was haram to do that in Islam, and I had to have a whole talk with her about marriage, Islam and babies.

Yikes If a younger kid asked me something like that, I just think I’d be too weirded out. I might just run away.

I will never have that conversation with my kid, someone else can do it.

My parents never told me and I’m glad they didn’t I might have been scarred for life.