After reading an article today about the median age for girls to have their first sexual encounter to be 14, and after speaking to a friend who si today off to buy her 16yo daughter a pregnancy test, I (semi) jokingly said to my kids that I didn't want them to be pregnant, or get anyone pregnant, until 22 as a minimum. DS1 (aged 7) piped up "so that means we can't have sex until we are 22". I have spoken to him about how babies are made before but I was a bit taken aback with how confident and non embarrassed his reply was so I just replied that I didn't mean that, but that he would have to use protection if he was going to have sex. My younger children were in the room at the time.
I know myself that I have not mortified my kids (or given them any details they didn't want) and I hope that they can continue to be open and honest with me about sex as they mature. But am I unusual in speaking to my kids so young about sex?
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