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Talking about sex with your kids... a little more help
Filed under: Development/Milestones: Babies, Day Care & Education
Karen Walrond wrote last month about how to talk about sex with your kids. Thank
you to our reader, Ethel, for providing another resource. Birds and
Bees and Kids is a business run by Amy Lang who conducts workshops with parents to help them feel comfortable talking
to their kids about sex.I have to wonder, though, about some of her answers to questions like, "How old should your kids be when you talk to them about sex," and "How often should you talk to your kids about sex?" Because she doesn't provide any on her website. Before I would hire someone like this, I would want to make sure that her answers coincided with mine.
As for me and my house? We operate on a need to know basis. They ask questions. I answer them honestly and accurately. And I don't provide more information than they ask for. How do you do it?
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4-27-2006 @ 1:27PM
katie said...An amusing conversation with my 6 year old twins from last fall:
http://slugrodeo.blogspot.com/2005/09/oh-hilarity.html
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4-27-2006 @ 5:48PM
ann adams said...Just like you do only the older they get, the more complicated the questions. We've moved from simple "birds and bees" into gender identity, hygiene, moral issues, std, pregnancy (how old is old enough) How about 33, Rebecca?
We're covering subjects with my 5th graders that the schools don't deal with until high school, if then.
I don't remember it being so detailed or starting quite so young with my boys (unless their dad handled some of it).
Sex is in their faces everywhere. Like it or not, I have to deal with it as honestly and non-judgmentally as I can.
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