We had "the talk" with our 6-year-old.
Ohhhhhh I can just feel all the judgment and opinions after this blog post. Yes, you read it right. We (ok, I) had "the talk" (AKA "the sex talk") with our 6-year-old. Was this something we planned on doing. Oh no. But a recent conversation that I had with one of my well-respected mom friends, and some research on my part, had me rethinking our whole outlook and "plan" for having "the talk". (This video cracks me up, because I can see myself in every single one of these parents.) In our house, we talk about penises and vaginas as if they were an arm or a leg. Has it always been this way? Nope. For the first three years of our now 6-year-old's life, we referred to a vagina as a "who-ha", and a penis as a "pee pee" and/or "wee wee". Yeesh. Lesson learned, and we now refer to these body parts by their proper names. So, why did we decide to have "the talk" with our 6-year-old? I mean, 6 is REALLY young, and...