Where Did I Come From The Best Book Sex Ed For Kids

In our house we’ve always had a very strong belief that we’ve stuck to with our kids, always be as honest as possible and always treat our kids as adults. The caveat to all of that is sometime those two rules bend a bit when we feel that they just might not understand something, so we have to explain it and talk about it in some way that will click for them. Human sexuality is one of those topics that we wanted to start early, tell truthfully and factually (no storks). Our kids understood from day one that men and women are built differently, pretty easy to see. It was maybe when they were about 6 years old that they started becoming much more interested in how babies were made. Prior to that we simply said, babies grow in a woman’s tummy.

I had been trying to figure out a way to broach the subject for some time. The Mrs had been trying to put it off, taking the stance, “Are they really ready?”. My approach was more, I’d rather do it now when they are still young because it will seem much more natural. Small kids don’t really get embarrassed as easily, they don’t really have the yick factor just yet with their parents. And they are much more accepting of ideas. Basically I definitely did not want to have this conversation with them when they were pre-teen and hormones might be starting to rev up and who knows what.

I did have some memory way back about a kids book that I think I read when I was a kid that was about how babies were made. I was going crazy trying to find it, because I really had zero recollection of what it was called. Lots of random google searches “1970s sex ed books kids” and “1980s sex ed book kids” and just scrolling through google images. When I did finally scroll past the cover it clicked, that looked familiar.

Found, Where Did I come From by Peter Mayle. The best introductory book for kids on human sexuality. Very straight forward, no pulling punches, honest. It has a healthy dose of humor, kid friendly pictures that are not too graphic. Just the right amount of information to answer any questions.

As a side note, maybe the authors name rings a bell, indeed Peter Mayle was the same guy who wrote A Year In Provence and all the following books. Go figure.