I don't believe it somehow ruins the innocence of kids or somehow ends their childhood
because to a young child the birds and the bees is irrelevant and uninteresting
compared to tree-houses, dolls, toilet humor or dinosaurs etc.
My parents where a little too English to talk to me frankly as a child so from well before
I was 4 they left a picture book called "Where do babels come from?" in my room.
When I couldn't read I ignored it coz the pictures where boring.
When I could read I ignored it because the story line was crap.
Only by the age of 5 did I become curious to such things and then the book explained
everything. A good way to go about it imho.
By the time the school educated me I had learnt everything (and a lot of dis-information)
from the playground chat. They should have addressed it earlier I think.
I don't mind what age the teach it in schools. Before the age of 8 it's just not gonna
be interesting for most kids. After the age of 13 and you risk leaving them uninformed letting horses bolt.
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