A-Grey-World

In places that use groundwater and aquifers, it is a resource that can be depleted, and likely a big issue in the future.

If your water comes from rainfall, use all you want. If you live in a place that uses groundwater, do not.

I think it's naive to wait until middle school, or more - to save it up for one big "the talk".

My daughter asked why animals "got on top of each other" (and knew it was something to do with babies) recently, and she's 5. To wait until middle school will involve lots of "that's not something we can talk about until you're older" and will make the subject taboo and teach your kid you can't talk about that kind of stuff with your parents.

There's nothing sexual about an anatomy book. Seriously, the technical names are not "sexy"... We've had a "body book" (since our girl had surgery age 3) to explain bits of body. She's by far more interested in the cool heart and lung sections, but seriously - the reproduction part of a kids text book is not inappropriate to go through. Most of it is about embryos and how babies grow or sperm/eggs and DNA - with non sexual names for things like ovaries, testicles, penises and vulvas etc. It's not much different from going through the heart and it's valves and all that - just so happens to be how reproduction happens.

You can also still use childish words if you want, call it a peepee if you want. I call my fingers "fingees" sometimes when playing. But then sometimes my kid wants to read "the body book" and we look at the tendons, bones and joints in the hand - and I use the proper name.

I may be biased though. I hate lying to my child and will tell her honestly about my beliefs on santa if she asks frankly (she doesn't care, said she chooses to believe in him anyway) because I loathe the idea of lying to my child.

It is kind of sad that it's such a prominent trope, so many villains have some kind of physical deformity or disability to other them.

Have you ever read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books? The condition the main character had seems to have been based somewhat on OI. It was nice to have a hero with a disability buck the trend, and I felt it was not at all pandering or patronising, just was.

Most of it probably is, but his original point is still valid.

Isolate yourself, and anyone who lives with you, and wait to get better.