We decided to go for it. I thought we should keep it very factual and hold nothing back. I did some quite good drawings of the reproductive organs to have some visual aids to help out the explanation. We went through the whole explanation carefully and what we thought was clearly. Joel said, ‘I’ve got a problem with this.’
‘Oh, what’s that?’
‘Well, how does it get from the man to the woman? Does it just fly across the room?’
I explained the details of intercourse once again while he looked more and more disturbed by this. When I finished, he said, ‘Ooh, does everything do that?’ Before I could answer his twin sister, Becky, said, “Yes, Joey, the birds do, the dogs do, the grass does, even the caterpillars…”