How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex

Talking to your children about a topic as personal and graphic as sex can be one of the hardest things for a parent to do. This article highlights some key points that a parent may want to share with their child about sex and their bodies as well as educating them on the pros and cons of sexual activity.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Approach child at around age 12 or whenever your child my be going through puberty. Explain your child's body and gender sexual organs. Understand that your child is experiencing new, maybe uncomfortable changes to their bodies that they may not be to happy about. Fear in your child is common about their body's changes so what the child really needs at this point is just support and understanding from the parent. Be a good friend to you child and listen to their concerns and fears at that point before moving on to a more graphic topic as sex. Allow your child plenty of time to adjust to their new bodies until they are comfortable enough to move on to learning about sex.

2. Once your child is ready, teach the functions of the opposite sex as your child for them to understand how each body works and how together they work in harmony to create a sexual experience. Talk about how sex is an expression of love used to find pleasure for a couple as well as the reproduction of a fetus. Also, explain that sex is not always as woAnderful as it is in the movies and that it takes time to learn just as any other skill or talent. And if you are bold enough, but necessary, teach your child of other forms of sex that couples use.

3. Finally, discuss the pros and cons to having sex, especially at an early age. Teach your child of the sexually transmitted diseases that are associated with unprotected sex and how to keep themselves safe. As important as teaching your child about STDs, a good idea would be to teach your child about how bonding sexual intercourse can be and that if your child engages in many promiscuous sex encounters with someone they don't know that they could be putting themselves in a situation leaving them feeling unwanted, unloved, and unfulfilled from the special bonding they receive from sexual intercourse between two people in love.

[devinewisdom]

on 7/7/2009 i will keep this in mind. thanks for sharing. 5*s, rate and rec

[djackman]

on 7/2/2009 great advice for talking to children about sex 5*

[elaineee]

on 6/26/2009 Sound advice!

[savemoneycenter]

on 6/9/2009 As a father of two daughters, first I don't even want to imagine it, but, it has to be done, my wife has been great about teaching them a little at a time. Great article.

[grammastacie]

on 6/5/2009 sound advice. 5* and recommend.