h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My parents didn't tell the myths that most kids get fed like Santa Claus, babies come from cabbage patches, but they did allow myths we picked up from others to florish. I was four or five when my mother was pregnant with my sister, so I knew that storks (whatever they were)didn't bring them, but they grew in my mummy's tummy. But, when a friend at school said the baby's get there when mum and dad kissed, they conveniently let that myth continue for sometime until they felt I was old enough to understand the truth.

If....and big if here...if there was ever a chance that I would have children I'd hope I'd tell them the truth. I want my children to trust my word and not come to question what I say to be either a myth or some silly adult lie.

Could be worse...when i started asking things like that my Ma gave me her old Midwifery book and pointed to the spina bif's and hydrocephaly's etc. Put me off kids for life...

My mum gave me a book about sex in the library when I was about 5 or 6 and left me to it