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Why Talk to your Kids about Sex

Understanding sexuality helps children cope better with various life stages (including puberty) and helps them to stand up to peer pressure and make informed decisions. It has been proven that children who are confident in their understanding of sexuality and relationships develop healthier and more stable relationships later in life.

Children need to be taught about sex by a responsible adult so that they will be empowered to make good sexual health decisions and to protect themselves from the media’s lies and glamorization of a serious topic.

Some parents are scared about introducing their children to sex at an early age because they think it will encourage their kids to be promiscuous. But giving them a healthy, biological and emotional background to sex actually empowers them to make good decisions in the future.

Every parent struggles to identify the best time to have ‘the talk’ with their child.

  • Should we wait for him/her to ask about sex?
  • Should we wait for him/her to hit puberty?
  • Should it be something that we talk about at all?

But how do you approach the subject? 

The answer is communication – and lots of it. There is no such thing as ‘the talk’. It should be an ongoing dialogue between you and your child from an early age. In my opinion, children need to be taught about sex from before they start attending school – otherwise, they will be educated on the subject by their peers.

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When to have the talk with your child

Every parent struggles to identify the best time to have the ‘birds and the bees’ talk with their child…..

  • Should we wait for him/her to ask about sex?
  • Should we wait for him/her to hit puberty?
  • Should it be something that we talk about at all?

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The talk for kids 0-5 years

When your children are young, you can start by explaining sex in a very simplistic way…..

Where do babies come from?

All children want to know the answer to the question: “where do babies come from?” This is a great opportunity to explain the value of sex between two loving adults – adults who love each other so much that they want to make a baby together.

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The talk for high school teens

As teenagers mature, they begin to claim independence over their lives…They begin to draw away from parental guidance and they start to make their own life decisions.

Critical stage of development

It is a critical stage in maturity, and teenagers need to develop high levels of self-respect and self-esteem to stand up to peer pressure and abusive/unfulfilling relationships.

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The talk for teens entering puberty

The moment your child hits puberty, he/she will not only be inundated with sexual messages from their environment, but also from their own bodies...

Hormonal chaos

Make sure that your child knows exactly what to expect during this time of hormonal chaos.

It is very difficult to talk about puberty with a teenager – mostly because they’ve hit the stage of life where they think their parents don’t know anything! I suggest purchasing a book on the subject and giving it to your teenager.

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