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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 399077"><p>I am another one whose husband has a hard time talking about sex with the kids. It comes from his upbringing, his parents never talked to him they just handed him a book. My mom on the other hand always answered my questions, always. So when my son was about 6 or 7 he was looking for something and found an old package of condoms.... he asked my husband what they were, husband paused and said I will tell you when you are older!!! I was in the other room and I said buzz wrong answer, and asked what it was about. He told me and I went to my son and explained in age appropriate terms that those were to help people not have babies when they didn't want them. After that I think my son generally asked me the questions about sex. He did that until early puppetry and then he stopped asking me about sex, and almost everything else.</p><p></p><p>There are a couple of good books out there that I really liked. Not all parents will like them because they are pretty liberal in nature, but they go along well with my thoughts on things. So there is one for younger children called "Its so Amazing" and one for older children called "Its Perfectly Normal". I read the first one to my kids at bedtime for several years. That way we were reading it together and of course it brought up questions and some really good conversations. </p><p></p><p>My difficult child son stopped talking to me about stuff sometime during puberty, but that is a time when for some reason I don't completely understand we had a major disconnect and things went downhill from there. My daughter is 15 and she still asks me questions and talks to me about sexual issues and what her friends are doing etc.</p><p></p><p>I think the key is to always answer their questions and always take the opportunity to talk to them when they seem at all interested. So I never had a "sex" talk with them, because I was answering questions from the time they were small.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 399077"] I am another one whose husband has a hard time talking about sex with the kids. It comes from his upbringing, his parents never talked to him they just handed him a book. My mom on the other hand always answered my questions, always. So when my son was about 6 or 7 he was looking for something and found an old package of condoms.... he asked my husband what they were, husband paused and said I will tell you when you are older!!! I was in the other room and I said buzz wrong answer, and asked what it was about. He told me and I went to my son and explained in age appropriate terms that those were to help people not have babies when they didn't want them. After that I think my son generally asked me the questions about sex. He did that until early puppetry and then he stopped asking me about sex, and almost everything else. There are a couple of good books out there that I really liked. Not all parents will like them because they are pretty liberal in nature, but they go along well with my thoughts on things. So there is one for younger children called "Its so Amazing" and one for older children called "Its Perfectly Normal". I read the first one to my kids at bedtime for several years. That way we were reading it together and of course it brought up questions and some really good conversations. My difficult child son stopped talking to me about stuff sometime during puberty, but that is a time when for some reason I don't completely understand we had a major disconnect and things went downhill from there. My daughter is 15 and she still asks me questions and talks to me about sexual issues and what her friends are doing etc. I think the key is to always answer their questions and always take the opportunity to talk to them when they seem at all interested. So I never had a "sex" talk with them, because I was answering questions from the time they were small. [/QUOTE]
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