Re: What to tell the littles
Hareem, I'm still looking forward to your response! :)
But I'll make some assumptions here and lets do a little projecting. OK, so you avoid topics like how does the baby get out, you avoid questions about sex, you try to squash any curiousity about the opposite gender and focus on academics. You allow your kids to socialize only with other carefully screened home-schooled kids. They turn out to be so very smart that they perhaps receive full scholarship to whatever university they choose....
Do you accompany them to college and live with them in the dorm and continue to shield them? Will you worry when, all of a sudden they find themselves interacting with the opposite sex, when classmates go out clubbing, smoking, drinking, having sex and smoking pot? A kid entering college has raging hormones, lots of curiosity and lots of energy. And a big problem with sheltered kids is the sudden surge of freedom. One day you will have to let them go out into the world, like it or not. Will they be equipped to handle it all or will they feel like they are at last breaking free? If you're starting out by limiting their contact with others and their curiosity and not answering their questions to their satisfaction then IMHO it will come back to haunt you.