My mom did the same, nurse as well. Has always called things by their name and been direct (age appropriate of course, meaning her answers changed according to our age while growing up). But i have always known what menstruation are, how children are born etc.

My mom did same (not a nurse) and we promptly shared our new found knowledge with the neighbourhood kids--mom got angry calls from the other moms for blowing their "stork brought the baby" cover lies... (Ealry 80s, Christian neighbourhood)

Another nurse's kid here. Anatomy book. Color pictures. Medical terminology. By the time she was done (I was ten, I think?) I was ready to vow lifelong abstinence. And that's as a farm kid, and we generally aren't too "sheltered". Nurse-Moms pull no punches!

All of us nurses' kids can explain every single detail by the time we can talk 😂 I apparently passed this juicy info on to my friends complete with demonstrating with my Barbies. Mom got lots of phone calls 😂

Yup my mom did the same. She’s a labor and delivery nurse.... wasn’t that fun of a time.

Yep, my mom was a nurse too. Plus we moved to a farm when I was 7 (I'm the oldest of 4 kids), so we learned the 'facts of life' pretty quickly! It's kinda fun to watch piglets being born, but cows - not so much!

I was 7. My mom gave me her Nursing Obstetrics text book, complete with photos. She was studying for her RN degree.

OH MY FREAKING GOD, I LOVE YOUR DAUGHTER!! I choked on my coffee from laughing so hard by her comment. Then the actual visual of them popping out as eggs and hatching sent me into hysterical laughter to the point my ABS are killing me right now. This is brilliant

When I was young and I first heard about there being an "egg," that's exactly what came to my mind. It was a bit difficult to grasp the idea of an egg cell being microscopic and then once fertilized, doesn't hatch but instead starts multiplying and growing.