When you were little where did you think babies came from? A stork? The cabbage patch? That the doctor had a key that opened mums belly button to put the baby in!!!???
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I thought my mom pooped my little brother out (that he came out of her butt).
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@lawbee11: hahaa Ewl! Lol
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Somehow I always knew about sex and childbirth. I think it was because I read this book called World Tales, and it had a lot of classical paintings in it with nudity.
http://www.amazon.com/World-Tales-Extraordinary-Coincidence-Stories/dp/0863040365So I figured most of it out just by reading that book over and over.
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The first time I wondered, I asked, and my Mom told me. I was four.
I think it went something along the lines of "When two people love each other very much and want to make a baby, they sleep together and have something called sex.
The man's penis and the woman's vagina fit together (God made people so that they would fit together that way, like a puzzle).
Then something tiny comes from the man called a sperm and meets something from the woman called an egg, and that grows into a baby.
After nine months when the baby is ready, it comes out through the lady's vagina. God made it special so it could stretch to fit a baby out."I thought about it for a little while, said "Ok, that makes sense!" When I was nine I asked for more detail and she showed me a book with diagrams about human anatomy written for teens. It made sense and I never asked again.
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@lawbee11: bahaha I thought for awhile they peed babies out
I was told by a childhood friend what sex was when I was about 7, so I knew early on... BUT she missed some of the details lol and until I was 18 I thought that all it took to get pregnant was for a man to touch his wee-wee to a womans hoo-ha... I had NO idea there was insertion involved!
My parents KNEW this and let me believe it. the little snakes. ugh I was SOOOO mad at them. I was completely humiliated. -
I thought they magically came out of the stomach.
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@Arden: ugh I wished my parents had done that... they never straight up told me or anything so I went exploring at 18 - and then they got mad at ME when I nearly had sex as a result... it was awful and I was so bitter.
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Mommy's tummy! I never questioned much or cared about the details early on. When I was 8 my mom explained it "for real."
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@Mrs. Pen: We were pretty open in our house, so when I was older and had questions about what semen looked like or what a hymen was, even when I asked about oral sex, my Mom just explained it to me very matter-of-fact.
I plan to do the same with my kids, I think it was a very healthy way to approach it. I never thought of sex as bad or dirty (as many of my Christian friends did), just as something that was special and reserved for married people.
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@Mrs. Pen: You never read the Judy Blume?
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@mrbee: nope... why, she explains what sex is?
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@Mrs. Pen: Yup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever..._(novel)Haha I was so curious about how all this stuff worked. I was looking up dirty words in the dictionary as soon as I figured out how to spell the f word!
Learned about periods and breasts from, "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret."
Judy Blume is the bomb.
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@mrbee: yeah obviously my mom made sure I knew about periods :-P.
I do remember finding a sex book written for teens and I really wanted to read it, but when my older brother caught me with it he scolded me and told me I wasn't allowed to read it, he took it and hid it and I never found it. I think I was 10 at the time.
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@mrbee: oh wow!! My mom NEVER would have let me read that - even as a teen in high school. She majorly sheltered me to a fault. It wasn't pretty.
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@Mrs. Pen: I did a lot of research at the library haha!
I guess boys are more motivated to learn about this stuff! Can't believe you let your mom and bro stop you... that's on you!!
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I have two scientists for parents and can't remember a time when I didn't know how babies were made.
Apparently I gave the neighbours' kids the talk when I was 5, their mum was kind of relieved she didn't have to do it. -
My mom is a nurse, so it was all very matter of fact from a very early age, there was never any mystery and never any embarrassment. I'm pretty sure at one point she busted out some of her old text books. I'm pretty sure she started talking to us about it when I was 3 or 4 and just answered any questions we had as they came up.
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@mrbee: haha well what else was I supposed to do! Our parents had internet blocks and they were in open places... and being raised in the church all i knew was "sex is bad" so I was taught not to ask questions
remember me saying I was a goody two shoes?? If they said something was soo bad, I didn't do it or ask about it... plus since I THOUGHT I knew what it was, I didn't realize there was more to know -
@Mrs. Pen: I was totally on Team Homeschool on your latest blog post, but now you're changing my mind!
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@Mrs. Pen: You were raised to think sex was bad? That's so sad. That's what I want to avoid... I think it's one of the greatest downfall of the church - unhealthy views towards sex.
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@mrbee: haha I'm sorry
I have forgiven my parents, I don't think it was homeschooling as much as how they were raised and how much my mom didn't want me to be her 
Her parents divorced when she was five and her mom went through several more men, was an alcoholic and smoker. So my mom was very active as a teen and kicked out of the house at 18. It was a rough childhood and she was doing her best to protect us from the life she had. And honestly I cannot fault her for that, even though she took it a little far. It was all in love. -
@mrbee: Hey, hey, I was homeschooled! And in a conservative Christian church. Not all parents homeschool their kids the same way.
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@Mrs. Pen: Sure, but in 4th grade they had a Sex Ed class in my public school, and I asked the teacher if it was possible to pee inside of someone while having sex. And got a straight answer.
@Arden: I have nothing against home schooling! I plan to teach our kids a parallel curriculum of home schooling while they're in public schools. My main realization tonight is that homeschooling can be dependent on your parents' experiences... I didn't run into that issue very much in my schooling experience, so that was a new realization for me.
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@mrbee: very true.... as you will see in my coming posts there are definite pros and cons to homeschooling! I suppose this could be one of them... especially since it IS typical for homeschooling families to over-protect their children which can be detrimental and was for me because I rebelled. It honestly took me awhile to forgive my mom for a lot of discrepancies that occurred as a result of homeschooling... but I do truly believe that each family is different and homeschooling is what you make of it.
And I personally am not against public schools, for the record
just our school district -
@Mrs. Pen: I never thought you were against public schools!
I really enjoyed your blog post about home schooling. A lot of people have strong reactions against home schooling in the absence of any direct experience, so I think it's so valuable to hear about your own personal experiences!
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@mrbee: oh I agree
I even dated a guy who was soo against it even though he knew me and knew I was normal and frankly smarter than him lol! I think that sometimes people form their decisions on it based on a few experiences/interactions or lack thereof so I am excited to have the opportunity to share some facts to a larger platform -
@lawbee11: I thought the same thing!
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@Mrs. Pen: I think smart kids do well regardless of what type of schooling they receive.
In any case, I look forward to reading your blog posts about home schooling! It's a fascinating topic and I can't wait to learn more!
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@Mrs squirreld: sorry for me and @mrbee's thread jack!
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@Mrs. Pen: @mrbee: haha forgiven!!
@Mrs. Pen: but I am surprised you never read Judy Blume too! -
@Mrs squirreld: srsly, right?
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@mrbee: those books were so popular here in Australia when I was growing up. Didn't they make a tv show out of it too?
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We learned the facts of life pretty early having grown up on a farm. It was never a mystery or made up stories on our house. Trying to figure out how to have a similar setup with our son, minus the 5 am milking chores...
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I asked where babies came from when I was three, and my mom explained it to me (in an age-appropriate way, of course), and gave me a few books as I got older that explained things in more detail. So, I've always known.
Another huge Judy Blume fan here!
If I have a daughter someday it will be a huge monumental rite of passage when I give her a copy of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
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My mom taught me young too and I was constantly getting library books to research! I used to breastfeed my dolls at like, age 4.
I remember myself and my girlfriends discovering forever (I'd already read are you there god it's me Margaret) and we were totally teenage-girl-scandalized in a good way, LOL. I think we were in 7th grade.
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I don't ever remember a time I didn't know. My parents were pretty open about that when I was little. We had lots of picture books & my mom was a nurse, so there were always her textbooks if I had more questions. And I loved Judy Blume!
@sorrycharlie: I used to breastfeed my dolls too! All of my aunts had breastfed their LOs & there were pics of my mom feeding us that way, so I just thought that was how you fed a baby!
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These are cracking me up! My grandfather asked me when I was pretty young if I knew where babies come from and I told him that "when a mommy and daddy love each other very much they go to the beach and make a baby. "
I never really considered how the baby was actually made, but I knew it must be done at the beach.
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Was anyone else really confused by the description of old time period supplies in Judy Blume books? I was like, "a belt? WTF is she talking about?"
My older friend explained babies to me, but with some errors. I didn't understand that there was sperm, and my understanding was that an egg rolls out once a month and if it hit a penis while it was rolling out it would roll back in and become a baby. So I thought the timing would have to be impeccable and it must be very difficult to get pregnant.
Then in health class in 4th or 5th grade it all got cleared up. I also found my mom's copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" in junior high and learned a bunch more about how women's bodies work. Plus, Cosmo taught me all about birth control.
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@Rock n Roll: I remember being totally confused by the belt thing, too.
I don't even honestly remember where I thought babies came from!! I think maybe I had some kid books that explained it to me? And then at 8 my mom took me to a mother/daughter class at planned parenthood. Holy awkward!!
just our school district 
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