Mikro has lots of nature books, is familiar with the term "mating", and knows that it takes a mommy and a daddy to make a baby, but our little green pals sure gave him a more concrete idea than the vagueness of children's science books... "Mommy, why is the father grasshopper on top of the mother?" "They're trying to make baby grasshoppers, son." Which is as detailed as I got. That, and that the mama grasshopper will lay eggs in the dirt. Well, at least it is in the context of insects, but I dread my little know-it-all loudly and descriptively sharing his knowledge with kids whose parents may not believe in even vaguely explaining this sort of thing to the very young...
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