"The Talk" Nerd Style

One day me, my wife, and our kids were driving to church. My oldest son pops up and asks where we are going. We tell him church, he replies which one? At this point I should digress and mention that our church group visits other churches, often. His question is not unusual and was not unexpected as we sometimes drive over 2 hours to go visit some other church. This time we explained where we are going and who will be there. He asked if "the brown girl" was at that church. This is where things got weird.

We explained that some people don't like to be called brown, black, or whatever and that we should simply refer to them by their names. He nodded and then replied how did she get to be "brown" anyways. Me being the high tech dad quickly replied it's her DNA. What's a DNA?

Things at this point were about to go down hill very quickly. If you have ever been stuck in that fun situation where an older sibling asks an innocent question that has any kind of answer involving sex; you pray it doesn't happen when the younger sibling is around. Certainly not in car with half an hour to go before you reach your destination. This is where we found ourselves.

My quick thinking wife quickly responded DNA is a lot Legos. Her mommy and daddy gave her brown Legos and you got pink Legos. Some of the Legos give you your eye color and hair color. Your brother got blue eyes and you have green, you both got different Legos for your eyes.

He nodded and then spoke again. What do you mean her mommy and daddy gave her legos, can daddy's have babies too? We both replied ,sensing the quick sand of the situation, no daddies can't have babies. So daddies can't go to the doctor and have them take baby out? No of course not, came our nervous replies. We were nervous because he's a smart boy and getting very keen to details. So why does a daddy give a baby Legos if the baby comes out of the mommy's tummy? Well because it takes a mommy and a daddy to make a baby. Do you run out of Legos when ever you give them away? Thinking to one of my favorite TV shows 19 kids and counting, I replied "No". We have something like lego factories inside of us.

He sat back and thought. I looked over at my wife, I knew that next question was coming. How would I answer it in a way he could understand while his 3 year old brother was sitting right beside him?

Luckily that next question didn't come. Instead came this. I know where the Legos are at inside of us. I looked back wondering where he be pointing... how much did he know? What had he seen or over heard? He pulled up his shirt and pointed at his stomach and with his wonderful 6 year old grin ,showing all of his genuineness. We keep our Legos in here huh? I smiled and chuckled. Yep son that's where we keep em.

He went back to his toys and my wife just laughed. She smiled and said you know were nerds, instead of birds and bees, for us it's Legos!