What age should sex education begin?

So the other day when I was playing car race with my son, he suddenly asked.

Son: How did baby come?

Me: Like I told you dear, from mother’s tummy.

Son: No, I mean how did baby come in your tummy?

My mind goes blank. I try my level best not to alter my calm smiling face. I had already made up my mind not to lie when this day came. Nor make embarrassed faces or turn him away making him more curious. But I simply did not think it would come so fast.

Me (trying to not break apart): When a grown up boy and girl marry, from their love…baby comes in mother’s tummy.

My son looks at me for sometime then asks: and then baby grows and mother has to go to doctor to help with taking the baby out. (As explained by myself and Daniel tiger’s mother)

Me (nervous inside): yes…

Son: okay…

He goes back to playing cars while I’m still not out of shock. I did not bug him with questions of where he got this question as I didn’t need him to think anything wrong with asking questions. I thanked God he did not ask this in front of other relatives because I’m sure they would make every kind of reaction I don’t want him to see.

I quickly got online to check what age was the right time. I was betting on 8yrs minimum but this was 3+ years early! But to my surprise I read sex talk can begin at 3 years. He haven’t asked anymore questions after that but I better keep myself ready.

The thing about growing up in desi house is that sex is a taboo subject. It is said that this is one thing that you don’t have to teach as nature will teach you when you get married! Yea right!

If you dare to show you know about this before getting hitched you can get tagged as characterless. An ideal girl would be the Aishwarya Rai’s character in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam who thinks a lady would get pregnant just from the touch of a man. An ideal boy, if what I heard is a common thought, it is from his friends!臘‍♀️ I guess that’s a desi way of saying ‘porn’!

My education of sex had layers of myths blasted out of the way till I got to know the truth but maybe that’s for another time. For now you parents tell me if you faced this situation and how did you handle it?

Perverts planning to come up in my inbox with sly comments on me or my son will be blocked mercilessly!