The Parenting Storks by David Sedaris. (Suitable for Adults) Message me for your free pdf copy of this book and if you would like discuss it. I hope you enjoy it. https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/13365914 The precocious stork was only two weeks old when he asked where babies come from. “Goodness,” said his mother. “I mean, golly, that’s quite some question.” She considered herself to be as modern as anyone, but didn’t you have to draw the line somewhere? “Let me get back to you on that,” she said, and she shoved a herring down his throat with a bit more force than usual. Later that day the mother stork repeated the conversation to her sister, who also had a recently born chick. She meant it as a Don’t kids say the darnedest things type of story and was unprepared for the reaction she got. “Your only son came to you for answers, and you didn’t give them to him?” “Well, of course I didn’t,” the stork said. “Why, he’s just a baby himself. How can he be expected to understand something so complicated?” “So children should be put off or, even worse, lied to?” “Until they’re old enough, sure.” “So we lie and we lie and then one day they’re just supposed to believe us?” “That’s how it was with our family, and I never felt particularly traumatized,” the stork said. “Besides, they’re not lies so much as stories. There’s a difference.”