Oh babies! Little surprised you didn't have their first a boy. But the joy is the same. I can't wait to see what happens next :)
First that's a great story you've got running, one I'm following with great pleasure, and wich even gave me, very bad communicator that I am, a few pointers to improve myself.
But this chapter got me thinking. I's not the first time I'm reading a story where someone get all flustered having to answer questions related to babies. Now I'm curious: do all american have such a hard time and are so evasive, even adding untruth instead of just not detailing? Especially a communicator specialist?
I'm a french mom and I don't I've never had any troubles answering my son's questions without giving them unasked for informations. With just enough fact to satisfy his curiosity and be biologically exact, and adding further details only if my answser rise more questions. My parents both did the same. Often, small children don't want to know much. Had my son worded his like Rin did, I would wimply have said that women have a sort of baby pouch, with an opening, near where she pee, to put the seed in and let the baby out when it's old enough to breathe and eat by itself. I did have to explain there was the ombilical cord for that in the meantime, and that was why we all had an belly button. Then, if she ask where the seed come from, saying that grown women have incomplete seeds with half the plans to make a baby and the men have the other halves of the plans never got more questions on this subject by any of my children. That's what I told by boys, I never even mentioned sex yet, and the oldest is twelve.. I'll do it when their body will changes and they'll inevitably question that changes's meaning and consequences.
Children are not curious about the mechanics of how to reunites those half seeds since they don't want to have a baby yet. Sex is a concept that would make a child really uneasy. They are only curious about the mystery of new life and the working of their (as of yet) asexual bodies.
And Rin is a girl, a boy is bound to ask before he is even five year old, why sometimes his little boy part get all hard preventing himself to pee... He doesn't whant to know about sex and babies, just to understand how to pee and why this happen. Of course, the easy answer was that if he touch it too much, it swich into another mode, where the half-seeds he'll have once adult can get out, and that if it leave it alone, it'll revert back soon so he'll be able to pee.
So that's the approach lots of us take with this part of education, there is even a class explaining birth, birth control, sexual diseases and protection, and sexual ethics at school when they're about 14-15 year old. is it that different with the american way? Do you strive to keep children in the dark until they are teens? Even in such a sexualised and liberal society?
Loveyaa (Chapter 342) - Thu 24 Jan 2013
Babies asking about babies. What's next? I can't wait until we can actually see Sango and Miroku's baby. I wonder if it will be a boy or girl and how Rin will react to that. I can't wait to see what happens next and almost dread the end coming up :)
Loveyaa (Chapter 339) - Sun 13 Jan 2013
Well the answer to that is yes regardless. And it's a bit too late for that anyway. I wonder what Kagome is going to say. I can't wait to see what happens next :)
Loveyaa (Chapter 338) - Fri 11 Jan 2013
go Kagome! Putting her foot down. I don't remember when I had the birds and the bees talk. Wonder if Rin will hold a grudge over this. I can't wait to see what happens next :)
Loveyaa (Chapter 337) - Thu 10 Jan 2013
Papa Sesshoumaru stepping in with awsome tough love. Kagome's gonna need to step up though. I can't wait to see what happens next :)
Such a pleasure to read! Sorry, I've been lazy and fallen way behind on my reviewing.
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