Given all the news about this stuff, wanted to explore this.
My parents didn't particularly teach me anything about sex. Fortunately our school sex education was pretty good and I figured it out for myself, with the help of friends/ libraries and girls' magazines.
I always vowed when I had kids it would be different, but now I'm here (kids aged 5 and 3) I probably feel like a lot of people - a bit unprepared for the 'best' way to answer questions/ tell them about things/ discuss things as they get older.
I know they're a bit young, but the 5 yr old is already asking where babies come from, and how they got there. Although I'm not lying ("Mummy's tummy, and "an egg grew in there") nor am I being forthcoming with anything more.
I particularly admire one set of friends of mine who have a very open and honest relationship with their daughters (12 & 14) about contraception/ sex etc.
Just interested to know when/ how those of you with older children addressed it. Did you just chat about things in everyday life, as they came up; did you get a book to read to them; did you sit them down and say "I've got something I want to talk to you about" [cringeworthy.....]
What about the differences for boys vs girls?
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Legacy · 27/05/2005 13:44
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