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Mummy Laid an Egg

壮妈汀妈点评：性教育是对孩子知识启蒙上的一个难点，不是难在知识有多复杂上，而是难在讲解的方式、程度和技巧上。我们一直很关注给幼儿看的性知识、给家长看的性教育方面的书，希望能帮助家长及时地科学地解答孩子关于性知识上的疑问。《生命的故事》、《狄得夫小子·性教育读本》、《知“性”的孩子更健康》等，实是目前国内最好的给小孩子的性教育书了，不过即使我通读了这些书，即使我下定决心一定对孩子实话实说，但当4岁的汀汀问我：“妈妈，精子和卵子到底是怎么碰到一起的？”我顿时还是懵了！

性教育对家长来说，最难开口的部分就是“精子和卵子相遇的过程”以及“baby出生的过程”。出生的过程对剖腹产的孩子很容易解释，而自然生产的孩子给他们答案就没那么简单了。但即使是剖腹产的孩子，也早晚得要告诉他们自然生产的过程啊。

前阵子跟汀汀一起看电视，演农场动物生小动物的故事，母猪生十几只小猪的过程连我都是第一次看到。汀汀边看边说：“怎么小猪好像是被吐出来的！”我觉得这是个好机会，就势给汀汀讲了动物自然生产的方式，也第一次给汀汀讲到了“阴道”这个概念，并结合相应的图片，我努力平静自然地讲解，告诉他大部分的小孩子都是这样生出来的，只有少部分孩子跟他一样是剖腹产生的。讲解的过程比我以前想象得简单轻松，而且我感觉到，孩子知道了“阴道”这个概念，再讲“精子和卵子相遇的过程”就很容易了。也许汀汀到5岁、6岁会再问起“精子和卵子相遇”的问题，我已经有信心过这一关了！

《Mummy Laid an Egg》这本书很与众不同，它让孩子给家长进行性教育，孩子讲解的方式简单直接，而且还很全面，尤其是“some ways mummies and daddies fit together”，是以往性教育读本中罕见的。我想这本书对稍大一些孩子（比如6岁以上）的家长更有参考价值，毕竟给太小的孩子讲性知道不需要这么详细，孩子也理解不了。家长还是根据孩子的年龄来决定性知识讲解的程度吧。

"Right," said mum and dad.

"We think it's time we told you how babies are made."

"OK," we said.

"Girl babies are made from sugar and spice and all things nice," said mum.

"Boy babies are made from slugs and snails and puppy dogs' tails," said dad.

"Sometimes you just find them under stones," said dad.

"You can grow them from seeds in pots in the greenhouse," said mum.

"Or just squidge them out of tubes."

"Some babies are delivered by dinosaurs."

"You can make them out of gingerbread," said mum.

"Mummy laid an egg on the safa," said dad.
"It...

...exploded.

And you shot out."

"Hee hee hee, ha ha ha, hoo hoo hoo. What a load of rubbish," we laughed.
"But you were nearly right about the SEEDs, the TUBE and the EGG."

"We don't think you know how babies are really made. So we're doing some drawings to show you."

"Mummy does have eggs. They are inside her tummy."

"And daddy has seeds in seed pods outside his bady."

"Daddy also has a tube. The seeds from the pods come out of it."

"The tube goes into mummy's tummy through a little hole. Then the seeeds swim inside using their tails."

"Here are some ways mummies and daddies fit together."

"When the seeds are inside mummy's tummy they start The Great Egg Race."

"The winner gets the egg and it starts to grow into a very small baby."

"the baby gets bigger and Bigger and BIGGER. Mummy gets fatter and Fatter and FATTER."

"When it's ready, out pops the baby."

"So now YOU know...

...and so does everyone else!"