Eight Questions About the Human Body That Kids Always Ask

By Miss Cellania in Baby & Kids on Apr 14, 2008 at 9:57 am

You probably prepare yourself for your children asking questions about the facts of life, but children are full of questions about everything, especially things you never thought about the answer to. Why does hair go gray? The first answer you think of is, “because children drive parents crazy,” but that won’t satisfy their curiosity. Why is urine yellow? I didn’t know the correct answer to that one, and I also didn’t know bilirubin was named after William Rueben. Here are eight such questions, with the short answers for each. Link -via Digg

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AnUnSi
Apr 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Too bad there’s one falsehood at the linked site. It’s pretty stupid, since the author contradicts him/herself in the same paragraph. Here is what is stated:

“So, that’s why men have nipples because at some point (for a very short amount of time) everyone is a girl!”

The above is an “old radical feminists’ tale” (an updated form of an “old wives’ tale”), invented [c. 1970] to make women and girls feel superior to men and boys!

The truth is that it is NEVER the case that “everyone is a girl.” As the article itself states, a human being has either an “XX” or an “XY” sex chromosome from the moment his life starts (at fertilization = conception). A person with “XX” is a girl from the very first cell until death, while a person with “XY” is a boy until death.
the robot child
Apr 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
The author was putting it in simple terms, so everyone could make sense of it.

I have a book, “why do men have nipples,” laying somewhere around my house. It answers questions like these and many other ones. Good toilet read. Very good toilet read.
L
Apr 14th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Oh, but it’s so much more FUN to tell your little boy that he was once a girl!

Maybe we weren’t all technically girls, but if we all looked the same until a certain point, then you could say our bodies showed the characteristics of being female. But I don’t know how you’d explain that to a six-year-old kid without confusing them all to hell. I’d rather just use the “old wives’ tale” and risk being called a radical feminist by people like AnUnSi.

Too bad the article doesn’t say how you should explain things like androgen insensitivity syndrome and XX male syndrome. That might be interesting…
Alannah
Apr 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
My kids never asked stuff like this. When I asked my daughter where she thought she came from she told me she thought we got her at the pet store. I have (really) no idea where she got that. Maybe it’s because we keep her chained up in the yard and feed her kibble?
anon
Apr 14th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
“I also didn’t know bilirubin was named after William Rueben.”

Did you not read the following sentence that begins, “That very poor joke aside”?
CheeseDuck
Apr 14th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Where do babies come from?
Selvo
Apr 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Its sad when you read this and I dont know what theyre saying lol. Then again, im still only 15
Lore
Apr 14th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
That was great. I work at a daycare center and get asked random questions like this all the time! Good read.

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