--- title: Kids Tried To Explain How Babies Are Made To Jimmy Kimmel description: The kids are charming yet very, very wrong canonical: https://time.com/4492939/kids-explain-where-babies-come-from-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T16:28:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:32.067Z og:title: Kids Tried to Explain How Babies Are Made to Jimmy Kimmel og:description: One saw Star Wars, and he knows things og:url: https://time.com/4492939/kids-explain-where-babies-come-from-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06c988eba1f9a82d/6988a5a2e20a878c02a925bc/jimmy-kimmel-jess-cagle1.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: jimmy-kimmel-jess-cagle og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kids Tried to Explain How Babies Are Made to Jimmy Kimmel twitter:description: One saw Star Wars, and he knows things twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06c988eba1f9a82d/6988a5a2e20a878c02a925bc/jimmy-kimmel-jess-cagle1.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Kids Hilariously Try to Explain How Babies Are Made on Jimmy Kimmel > Sponsored content. 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Randy Holmes—ABC/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 14, 2016 4:28 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4462478/hillary-clinton-health-rumors-jimmy-kimmel/) had a noble goal—to improve sex education in this country. He had the notion that the birds and the bees talk would be far more effective if kids taught the basics to other kids because they could speak at their level, using their language. With that aim in mind, he sent producers out on the streets to [interview kids](http://time.com/4489254/renee-zellweger-jimmy-fallon-cheer/) about how babies are made. Their answers ranged from informative, if wildly euphemistic, like the young lady who summed it up as “the downstairs goes into the lady’s downstairs” to completely wrong, like the tyke who claimed they came from a woman’s chest. While off target, he was closer than the toddler who simply sang the alphabet into the microphone, but less succinct than the young man who simply answered, “Gross.” He knows this, because he’s “seen _Star Wars”_ (the director’s cut, apparently.) In short, the results were hilarious if not exactly conducive to the continuation of the human species. Ah well, they’ll figure it out eventually, probably. 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