A friend of a friend reckons reports that as a child they were told that babies were made by ‘mummy and daddy having a very special hug’. Subsequently they were terrified every time their grandparents tried to hug them, convinced that this would leave them impregnated!
There are a lot of lively siblings running around the postnatal wards at the moment. This got me thinking about how children learn about reproduction. I can’t really remember how I learnt about the origin of babies. My father assures me it was through a series of conversations and educational material. I’m not sure if this is true.
I asked friends and family how they learnt ‘where do babies come from’, or if they had had this conversation with young people. Solicited on facebook it’s a pretty biased sample, but I think interesting nonetheless. I’ll be doodling up some of their answers, starting with this one…
