Perhaps one of the toughest questions from kids for parents to answer is “where do babies come from?”
Of course, it’s not that adults don’t know the answer, it’s difficult to phrase the answers. Besides, we know for a fact that kids are investigative journalists: after we give them a straight answer, they surely have tons of follow-up questions it for kids.
When my eldest asked me where babies come from, she was only three years old, and my reaction was pretty much the same as Nat’s and Kassi’s here:
I tried explaining, but I only got more questions. Again, children are just overflowing with question! I nearly had the same reaction as this one…
But just today, after seeing TEEcher lynn’s tweet, I realized I should have just tried to explain until my daughter gives up.
How could I have done it different? Should I just have dismissed it? Should I have said or done something clever? Let’s see what other adults did.
Where do babies come from? Adults say!
Here are some tweets of adults about the question, where do babies come from?
Yes, an analogy would be good, but the kid would probably ask “what’s a barramundi? It’s the same way as when my daughter asked “what’s a stork?” when someone told her babies come from storks.
I should have said “go ask your grandpa!” My daughter probably would have listened since she believes my dad’s extremely intelligent. Had I done this, she would not have bugged me!
Need I say more?
Some probably would just dismiss it directly (I know I tried) or in a more subtle way like Michael here.
This would have been an interesting way to dismiss the question, but I’m pretty sure, it would have gathered even more follow-up questions.
Now, this is entertaining 🙂
…but this next one is my favorite.
There was a time my kids believed babies come from storks, so they could have probably believed this as well.
If we’re asked where do babies come from in a classroom, this question would be a no-brainer. But why is it tough when it comes from kids?
Beats me!
Real also:
