What to tell the littles

[hin33]

Re: What to tell the littles

when my boys were around 6 or 7 .. i told them the doctor has to do an operation but it doesn't hurt.. basically a C-section.. it was far less embarrassing .. i m sure they know now.. but at least i don't have to discuss it with them..

[Iconoclast]

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Well frankly i do not understand teh current trend of telling kids everything.

[meena_s]

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you dont need to beat about the bush, you should satisfy him, but in such a way, that things remain secret, which should not be known by a baby, when i was a baby i still remember i ws told, when we sleep and wake up early in the morning the baby is there on bed, sent us through angels by Allah from sky, i had this perception till i brought up hehehe 7th grade.... but is se ye hoga, ke bachha mazeed investigate nahin karega aur satisfy hojaye ga, unsatisfactory answers can lead him to the wrong way... :)

[Reha]

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My parents told me they come from the hospital...mommy and daddy have to go and get a baby. If I didnt like a baby, I would ask my parents to go and exchange this baby and get a new one!

I thought it was that simple!

[Niksik]

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My older daughter asked me about the process a few months ago when her school friend had a baby brother and they noticed that her mom’s belly was no longer big

So I told her that Allah mian does all these miracles, but honey, don’t worry about it, you will find out the details when you grow up.

She hasn’t asked again.

[sameenji]

@MiamisweetheartX

awww thts so cute lol!!!! kids know so much these days.

this is cute?

mamaof3 who told him about all this...do u know that?

[hareem01]

@Aisha dubaiwali

Lol i know this is embarrassing but mom only used to tell me that allah se ate hain bachey so i left it at that but when i was in grade 4 we used to study about fishes and all that and another kid told me that babies come when mommies and daddies lay down together on the bed, just like male and female fishes go close to each other and i was like what:eek: i believed that till about grade 7 when i was damn shocked:eek: now its cool!

fish don’t get close to each other…they only chase the female fish…that’s all.

[hareem01]

this is cute?

mamaof3 who told him about all this...do u know that?

good question but i don't understand why everybody is finding it cute and funny, i think it's quite disturbing for a little kid to use this word.

[njgal]

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I told my daughter that when you want a baby you pray to Allah. Allah puts the baby in mommy's tummy and then you go to the hospital and the doctor takes it out.

That was the end of her questioning and my nervous breakdown

[wonderz1]

My mom and dad used to tell us that babies cam from space and that Allah mian used to put em in rockets and send em here.......... the crazy part is that my siblings and I believed that for a very long time and we actually used to get in arguments in school about it telling everyone that it's actually true!

[Dubaiwali]

@hareem01

fish don’t get close to each other…they only chase the female fish…that’s all.

They do get closer. For reproduction. How fish [email protected]

In both Ovoviviparity and Viviparity the male uses a clasper, and perhaps teeth, to hold the female while he fertilises her, and the sperm passes down the clasper to gain entry to the female’s body. These methods of reproduction](reproduction - Everything2.com) have the advantage that the eggs are much less vulnerable to predators](Predator - Everything2.com) when carried within the mother, and the young are born fully advanced and ready to deal with their environment as miniature](Miniature - Everything2.com) adults.

[Dubaiwali]

@Sunset_Eyes

^ Schweet!

hehe yeah!

[hareem01]

@Aisha dubaiwali

They do get closer. For reproduction. How fish [email protected]

In both Ovoviviparity and Viviparity the male uses a clasper, and perhaps teeth, to hold the female while he fertilises her, and the sperm passes down the clasper to gain entry to the female’s body. These methods of reproduction](reproduction - Everything2.com) have the advantage that the eggs are much less vulnerable to predators](Predator - Everything2.com) when carried within the mother, and the young are born fully advanced and ready to deal with their environment as miniature](Miniature - Everything2.com) adults.

You can do better than that … your post is giving selective information. You have not posted the whole section from your link:
I was not talking about the few exceptions, this is what you missed in your post.

The young grow inside the mother and are nourished by her directly with a placenta, like mammals. This method is rare in fish, but can be found in some sharks and surf perches. The broods produced by viviparous bearers are small and the fry are well developed when born.

If you look at the main part of the article it will show that most fish do not have sexual intercourse but really put their eggs and sperm in the water at the same time.

Beside the article is geared towards birth methods rather than mating methods;

[Mamaof3]

this is cute?

mamaof3 who told him about all this...do u know that?

Yes, it was a very popular topic of playground speculation among the kids and I'm sure all the kids kept asking questions at home. My son had a playdate at his friends house, they have a live in au-pair from sweden I think. She apparently had no qualms about explaining the biology of it all. She gave them actually a very simplified explanation, used the correct words and thank goodness did not get into how the baby actually got in there in the first place!

I dont like to give my kids false information like babies grow in a garden or get delivered by a stork. This was more info than I'd have chosen my son to have at his age but not much can be done about that now. He was very happy to have the mystery revealed and its no longer a big deal to him.

[Straight_up]

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I like Njgal's idea!

My parents told me babies are thrown from the sky and you get to catch one - I did wonder about big tummies for a while. Then I realised that they were cut open and thus the hospital visits and babies.

I also found out in grade 7 the real truth about babies and I was sooooooo disturbed. My initial reaction was, "Even Muslim kids!?" Hahahahhaah. I couldn't get over it.

[hareem01]

I dont like to give my kids false information like babies grow in a garden or get delivered by a stork.

But you love to tell them all the nonsense about Christmas and tooth fairy and let them believe in it. Nice

[WitchDr]

@Iconoclast

Well frankly i do not understand teh current trend of telling kids everything.

Frankly, I don't as well. It seems most women, nowadays, have a urge to tell their young children about this phenomenon.

[Mamaof3]

But you love to tell them all the nonsense about Christmas and tooth fairy and let them believe in it. Nice

hahaha. You forgot to mention the Easter Bunny! Yes actually I DO allow a little magic into their childhoods as I had in mine. :)

Thats different IMHO from answering serious questions about how things work, what things are, why things happen. Again, I agree that they dont need all the details and all the info that my son got....but the truth can be simplified to age-appropriate degrees i think.

[SaadiaB]

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Mamaof3 .. I was told about the facts of lifes from a boy .. in my young kid years we used to live in the States and well he told me and I told my elder sis everything, at first we were like yuck .. no way our parents do such yucky things...!

then there this young paki boy from the neighborhood with whom we played with - the same who told me about what our parents do, said babies come from mom under there ..(lol i cannot even write it down here, its so embarrassing for me) well my sis and i said no way they come outside from the mom's belly button ..

well he said ok lets ask my mom, so there we go to his mom and he asks his mom - a typical pakistani mom... "ammi these girls are not believing me .. they say the baby comes from the belly botton and i say no it comes from down there" and he pointed to it .. his mom got all RED .. so red and angry that we ran away from her and didnt speak with the boy and more.

haha

[Mirch]

@njgal

I told my daughter that when you want a baby you pray to Allah. Allah puts the baby in mommy’s tummy and then you go to the hospital and the doctor takes it out.

That was the end of her questioning and my nervous breakdown

Very sensible and logical answer for curious minds. Even if some smarty pants asks " No but how a doctors take it out ?" The answer is “Doctors know how to get them out from mommy’s tummy , that is why they are doctors.”