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    What "where did babies come from" white lie did you parents tell you as a child before telling you the truth?

    My parents said the baby store lie.
     
    I remember watching The Land Before Time and assuming that infants hatched from eggs. I also recall being around 4 or 5 and asking my mother where my egg shell was. I don't think she knew what I was talking about and if she did, she gave me no explanation on how babies were made.
     
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    ^ Pretty much that. I never really asked and found out about it through sex ed.
     
    I don't think I was lied to since I'm pretty sure I never asked.

    However one of my siblings did ask at a very young age and was given an honest answer.
     
    i once ate like a full box of oreos and puked, my mom was like "oh you must be allergic to oreos" and dumbass me saw absolutely no flaw in that logic and carried on thinking so for 10 years

    stay woke
     
    They never told me so I ended up finding out from my cousins. :S
     
    I think I always knew babies grew inside mums, there was never a story or deception there. I remember we had some cool book with pictures taken of fetuses at different stages (inside the womb, alive and well ok) and it was very cool for the time that they could do that. This book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Child_Is_Born_(book) so when I learned to read and tried to read every book in my parents' bookshelves, this was one of them. Sometimes the truth is the coolest story :)
     
    "Hey, you know how the stork is fake? So is Santa!" - My mom to seven year old me
    Destroyed me for a while.

    Mom tried to give me the "you know what" talk when I was nine, but I didn't understand any of it except girls bleed from their butts every once in a while. Oh how naive I was.

    Then sex ed happened when I was 13. I figured it out on my own then.
     
    my mom was pretty upfront with where babies came from lol she didn't really subscribe to the whole "sex is a DIRTY word so kids shouldn't find out" train of thought sooooo
     
    My parents never lied to me about where babies came from. When my mom got pregnant with my brother, they bought this book/board game combo for kids that very clearly explains the whole process. I still have the picture book and flip through it sometimes for a laugh.

    Anyway, the very next day they got a talking-to from my preschool because apparently 4-year-old me had taken it upon herself to teach all the other kids exactly where babies come from...... complete with my own diagrams LOL.
     
    I used to think that they came from Babies R' Us, and my parents did nothting to discourage this belief. For quite a while I was worried that they were going to buy a new baby whenever we went to Toys R' Us...
     
    We had sex ed in grade 6 but before that it actually never really caught my attention? My mother said I asked when I was a toddler and she said "a cabbage patch". Likely in reference to those cabbage patch kids dolls?
     
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