It has becoming clear that it's time to talk to one of our children about sex and babies and that whole world...well, not the whole thing, but the age appropriate 7 year old version of all of that.
Nervous? Yes. Amazon! Help!
I ordered a few (4) books to back me up. After having all the books in my hands and skimming through them I decided that "It's so Amazing" was going to be my best age appropriate choice for our almost 8 year old. The other books I ordered look good too, but I'm going to hold on to them until he's a bit further down this path.
Now, our kid is a great reader, but I'm not just going to drop a book and run. I want this to be an open dialogue, so if I start it off that way hopefully it will continue. One night I muster up my bravery and just come in and say we are starting a new book tonight, it's a book about how babies are made, grown, and born. And he just says okay. Okay. Here we go.
For the most part the book is great and I read about 95% of the words on the pages without skipping over much. The only parts I brushed over were some bits at the beginning that said "you might be embarrassed about this" and another bit that said "you might be tempted to research this on the computer" No. And you know what, I think I got him early enough because he doesn't know that this is something that many people are embarrassed to talk about. We just talked about it all and went through the book 5-10 pages a night. He laughed at somethings, he asked a few questions, and overall it was a success.
The book does a great job of covering ALL the basics. They even have a few pages dedicated to different types of adoptions and at one point he said, "this whole paragraph here is like my story." It's actually really neat to have an adopted kid and a bio kid, we have good chats about their differences.
Maybe you've already has this conversation with your 7/8 year old, and if so, why didn't you tell me!? But if you haven't, I'd recommend it as a jumping off point.
Other books in this series, I haven't ordered these yet, but probably will.
It's Not the Stork! ages 4+
It's Perfectly Normal ages 10+
Nervous? Yes. Amazon! Help!
I ordered a few (4) books to back me up. After having all the books in my hands and skimming through them I decided that "It's so Amazing" was going to be my best age appropriate choice for our almost 8 year old. The other books I ordered look good too, but I'm going to hold on to them until he's a bit further down this path.
Now, our kid is a great reader, but I'm not just going to drop a book and run. I want this to be an open dialogue, so if I start it off that way hopefully it will continue. One night I muster up my bravery and just come in and say we are starting a new book tonight, it's a book about how babies are made, grown, and born. And he just says okay. Okay. Here we go.
For the most part the book is great and I read about 95% of the words on the pages without skipping over much. The only parts I brushed over were some bits at the beginning that said "you might be embarrassed about this" and another bit that said "you might be tempted to research this on the computer" No. And you know what, I think I got him early enough because he doesn't know that this is something that many people are embarrassed to talk about. We just talked about it all and went through the book 5-10 pages a night. He laughed at somethings, he asked a few questions, and overall it was a success.
The book does a great job of covering ALL the basics. They even have a few pages dedicated to different types of adoptions and at one point he said, "this whole paragraph here is like my story." It's actually really neat to have an adopted kid and a bio kid, we have good chats about their differences.
Maybe you've already has this conversation with your 7/8 year old, and if so, why didn't you tell me!? But if you haven't, I'd recommend it as a jumping off point.
Other books in this series, I haven't ordered these yet, but probably will.
It's Not the Stork! ages 4+
It's Perfectly Normal ages 10+
