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What are you saying at 3.5 about sex ? I can’t imagine saying some stuff until around 13.

Everything! Kids that age ask a ton of questions, and of course they usually see a lot of pregnant women because all their friends' moms are having babies, or their own mom is having another baby.

How the baby got in there
How they baby will get out
How some people get babies without being pregnant
How some moms who are pregnant don't give birth vaginally but have a C section
How the father's sperm joins the mother's egg and starts a baby in her womb
What the baby is doing when it is inside the uterus

You can just answer all their questions. If they aren't ready for a particular concept they just will tune it out. Talk about it naturally just like you explain how traffic lights work and what the ATM is for.

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Anonymous wrote:Sex at 3.5

I don't know when we told her about Santa, because we don't "do" him (hmmmm... seem to have combined the subjects). I think she's essentially always known he's not real.

What are you saying at 3.5 about sex ? I can’t imagine saying some stuff until around 13.

Huh? My kid has a younger sibling and has been very curious about babies. It’s perfectly normal for an almost 4 year old to ask questions about this. Even if your kid doesn’t have a sibling, odds are their friends do, so you’re still going to get questions.

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Anonymous wrote:Sex at 3.5

I don't know when we told her about Santa, because we don't "do" him (hmmmm... seem to have combined the subjects). I think she's essentially always known he's not real.

What are you saying at 3.5 about sex ? I can’t imagine saying some stuff until around 13.

I would not recommend you wait for height of embarrassment age. So much better to be matter of fact about it before they are embarrassed.

Anonymous wrote:Hm good question. My oldest is 8, and he still believes in Santa and doesn’t know about sex. I’d say Santa first though.

At 8, he has already been told by a classmate who Santa really is. I'd let him keep on "believing." He probably was also told about sex from the same classmate.

Sex

Sex since 4.

100% sex. DDs are 8 and 6 (and 2), and are showing no signs of questioning Santa.

sex and reproduction -- we talked about everything, all the time. Whenever kids asked, they got the explanation to their questions. If they weren't really ready for that part of the discussion, it just went right over their heads. Used correct terms for body parts including genitals (but "womb" for uterus.)

Santa -- we did have Santa in our house, but I never told the kids Santa existed. Didn't tell them to go to bed so Santa could come or be good or Santa wouldn't leave presents. They learned about Santa from TV and nursery school. They asked me if Santa would come to our house and I'd say "Hmmm, I wonder?? Let's see...!" That kind of thing. Presents just showed up on Christmas morning. Kids decided Santa must have left them, but we parents weren't the ones telling them the story was true. So when they got older, and asked if Santa would leave them presents this year, it was a moment of saying, "hmmmmm?" with a wink instead of telling them the truth and that we had been telling them a story all those years!

We’ve discussed with young 5 year old how babies get out of mommy’s tummy, but he hasn’t yet asked how they get in. So we haven’t had that talk yet.

We are Jewish so no Santa. Though I guess he may ask about that at some point too.

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Anonymous wrote:Sex at 3.5

I don't know when we told her about Santa, because we don't "do" him (hmmmm... seem to have combined the subjects). I think she's essentially always known he's not real.

What are you saying at 3.5 about sex ? I can’t imagine saying some stuff until around 13.

You know that some 13 year olds are having sex, right? Really stupid to wait until 13 to discuss sex.
-a middle school teacher

Dd is 5 and we just finished reading It’s Not the Stork. She’d been asking lots of questions about how babies get into a mommy’s tummy. We’ll address Santa when she starts having questions about that.

Anonymous wrote:Sex at 3.5

I don't know when we told her about Santa, because we don't "do" him (hmmmm... seem to have combined the subjects). I think she's essentially always known he's not real.

What are you saying at 3.5 about sex ? I can’t imagine saying some stuff until around 13.

Sex at 3.5

I don't know when we told her about Santa, because we don't "do" him (hmmmm... seem to have combined the subjects). I think she's essentially always known he's not real.

Well, my 9 yo still at least claims to believe in Santa, and we just had the first sex talk about the child started asking about it.

my kid is six we talked about how babies are made (at least in terms that were age appropriate) when she was five. She still believe in santa and I am going to let that go as long as she wants to keep believing.