Show Me The Baby

My Musings – “Don’t tell me about the labor pains—show me the baby!” (from “Thank God It’s Monday,” by Roxanne Emmerich). People do not go to the hospital nursery to hear about the labor pains. They go to see the baby. When our young children ask us that inevitable question, “where do babies come from?” we do not launch into a lengthy discussion about sexual intimacy and biology. We simply say something to the effect, “when a man and woman love each other very much, they decide to get married and have a baby…” That’s pretty much all that most young minds can handle. And for the most part, they are satisfied with that simple explanation.

The rest of the discussion will happen later on, but even then will most likely not get into anything more than the basics. But just because it is explained in not so scientific terms…