Wow. That is early. We don’t start until Sept. 9 here in Mass. (Which is good, because we had an exceptionally cold, rainy June. Summer got a late start.)

That’s a great question. My own approach, for a three-year-old, is simply to explain that families come in all different shapes. I’d emphasize that she has a parent who loves her, rather than that she is “missing” something that other kids have. Todd Parr’s The Family Book is a good one for that age, and shows families of many different configurations. She might also flip through Louise Sloan’s Knock Yourself Up for herself–it’s aimed at single moms by choice, so she can skip the knocking up part, and go right to the chapter on “The Daddy Question,” which may address some of her questions. I’m going to bump this comment up to a full post, so other readers can chime in as well.