I know I can’t keep my kids young and innocent forever, but my boys just came in from playing with two fourth-grade public school girls in our neighborhood and they told me that tomorrow someone is going to the school to teach the grade 4/5 classes (yes, they do 4 and 5 together in the same class rooms) about “the private parts and where babies come from.”
Blech. I see nothing good coming out of a group of fourth-graders discussing that on the playground.
I understand that I will have to deal with the inevitable at some point in time, but for now I am happy that when my oldest sees a commercial for “The Nature of Sex” on PBS, he shuts off the TV in disgust.
Just so you know, they do know about private parts and where babies come from. Big D even knows how babies are made, but I think he might have blocked it out! 
1:00 am on January 23rd, 2007
Hi Charity,
There are two good book series that gives a gradual release of information. One is called God’s Design for Sex. The have books startig from ages 3 - 5, and so on with age appropriate info. I have never been crazy aout the one here-is-the-whole-story session. I want a dialog with our kids so that we are the first they come to with their questions through the years…
11:54 pm on January 23rd, 2007
I have seen that before. Thanks for the tip.
9:04 pm on February 4th, 2007
Navpress is the one that publishes it. There are a few series out there.