Who taught you the "facts of life"?

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Who taught you the "facts of life"? In my case, Jeffry. I don't remember his last name. I was in the 5th grade, and wise in to ways of the world, my classmate,, Jeffry, described the act. Of course, I thought that was pure nonsense. I vividly remember asking my mom when I got home. She was standing at the sink, washing dishes. As I put my stuff down , I said, " Ma, how does a woman get a baby?" She dropped, and broke a plate. I don't think she gave me an answer.
So who was the "Jeffry" in your life?
 
I learned a large portion of the "the facts of life", or as it used to be referred to as "the birds and the bees", while I was still in my single digits.

My friends and I used to get-together for sleepovers and out came pictures books, and stories, and I also remember a mild introduction to it back in elementary school.
 
Some things my older sister told me about the facts of life. Other things I just heard about from friends. It brings to mind when my friend got marrried and got pregnant and we were talking one day about giving birth. I felt so sorry for her because she thought the baby would come out the way you would have a bowel movement (cleaned up how I said that) and I had to explain how a baby was born.She looked shocked and said I was wrong because her Mom said you just sh*t them out.
 
When I was around 5, I thought babies were really cute. I asked my mom if we could go to the store & buy one.
She said "We don't buy babies; your father & I have to get very close & hug each other a lot to get a baby."
I constantly encouraged my dad to hug my mom. After a few days of this, he started to get mad. He really didn't like her very much. I'd hear them arguing about her telling me stories....
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win231 said:
When I was around 5, I thought babies were really cute. I asked my mom if we could go to the store & buy one.
She said "We don't buy babies; your father & I have to get very close & hug each other a lot to get a baby."
I constantly encouraged my dad to hug my mom. After a few days of this, he started to get mad. He really didn't like her very much. I'd hear them arguing about her telling me stories....
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LOL!

In our house the story was, mom went on a "special diet" to have a baby.
 
Growing up on a farm helped.
Saw my first kitten born as the mother cat rolled around under my feet. "meow"
Told my mother there a kitty,, she didn't listen, went on chatting with neighbor.

Another"Meow,, accompanied by a kitten,.
About that time the neighbor noticed & pointed to my feet.

Was disappointed when Mom gabbed cat & babies, put them in box behind stove to keep them warm.

I was always chasing the rooster off the hens.
Granddad would scold me.
But he's hurting them.
 
A couple of the guys I hung out with were experts, cough, in the birds and the bees. I really didn’t believe half of what they told me.
One day I was up in the attic of our old house, and found a book showing just about everything I needed to know. It was a huge book of human science and had lots of photos.
I think I was 9 or 10 at the time. Let the experiments begin....
 
My best friend Sheila in the 5th grade gave me some details (mostly wrong) and told me that my parents "did it".

We had a falling-out over it because I told her that there was NO WAY *my* parents would do anything like THAT. She insisted that they must have since there were a bunch of kids in the house. (Frankly, I still don't believe they "did it"......the babies must have slid down from heaven on a moonbeam.....)
 
I looked it up in our 5th grade encyclopedia on a rainy day when we were kept inside for recess. Then I passed the book around to all my friends. I was confused at that time as to what was meant by "involuntary" movement. I understood the voluntary part, but the involuntary the writer didn't explain so well or say that it's the best part!
 
It was explained by mother that all you had to do was WISH for a baby
1. It requires two people
2. both have to WISH for a baby
3. By 'wishing' for a baby a female becomes pregnant
4. The female gets fat and then the baby comes,
5l The process of the baby coming down the birth canal was not mentioned or explained

Robert age 8, explained the icky process, i refused to believe it-still don't.
Two people wish for a baby-Bamb! here comes a baby.

If you don't want to do the 'wishing' I'm
petty sure they sell babies at Walt-mart, they sell everything-right?
 
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hollydolly said:
No-one told me..... I was pregnant and didn't know where the baby was going to come from..I swear that's true. I had such a terrible upbringing, no one cared enough to tell us anything about life.. and we weren't taught it at school either.
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Same here .. "sex" was taboo to talk about (even our "monthlies"). Little was taught in high school. There was no "sex-ed" back then.
 
I was about 11 and my oldest sister had a baby out of wedlock. I didn't understand why the baby couldn't stay with us. I started reading a lot more and figured most of it out of books. I also asked a girlfriend I was friends with and I learn quite a bit from her. Still...I was pregnant before I married the first time. Oh well, I guess the rhythm method wasn't fail-safe.
 
Seems facts of life falls into the category of sex. A game we played when I was about 10 had a boy & girl get under a big cover & strip naked. Nice discovery even in the dark. What that led to was questions about the differences, those answers supplied by older brothers that were wrong on some points. One important fact not left out was to use a condom. As an active teen at 16 finally able to drive and park. Nature in it's infinite wisdom provided the way to fulfill the curiosity. For that condom advice I've been forever thankful.
 
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