My parents were always awkward about sex. Made it seem like a dirty secret. I thought girls had penises for the longest time. One day when I was about 12 my dad called me into the living room, hit play on a video and left. It was a graphic video of a woman giving birth. That was probably the worst way to go about it.

We decided to be open with our kid about sex from the beginning. Bought some kid-friendly books that covered everything from anatomy to sex to consent in a very factual, sterile way and put them in her bookshelf. We didn’t read them together till she was older and we could discuss them, but she could look through them whenever she wanted. When she asked me where babies came from I told her. She just said,”Oh. Ok.” It wasn’t awkward and it wasn’t a big deal.