The sex talk

[Tinks]

That's basically what we've been doing, we've always talked openly about it. I was pregnant when the older 2 were 4 and 5 so naturally they asked questions which we answered. I bought books for them to read, which they still do now. THey know about puberty and body changes. Basically they know everything, or rather we've discussed everything except sex. They hear the word sex and have asked what it means, so they know it's what you do to have a baby but I jsut haven't explained the hows. Does that make sense?


One day my sister and BIL took DD (4yo at the time) to the footy, she was telling a friend of theirs that I was pregnant. He asked her how the baby got in there so DD gave him a rundown on the egg and sperm and how the baby grows in the womb and comes out the cervix......The friend later said to my sister that he is never going to ask that question to a kid again

[AngelPunks]

I never really had the "sex" talk, at 5 I asked my SIL about "the rope attached to the baby" (I'd seen a pic of a nearly full term bub in the womb - she gave me the whole shebang talk, probably a bit too graphic coz it grossed me out BIG TIME, but I took in as much as was relevant to me at the time, same SIL gave me the period talk when I got mine a month before my 8th birthday.

I knew the mechanics of the human body, I knew the external differences between male and female as nudity was normal in our household, so I'd seen my brother & my father naked.

I do remember having the "sex" talk at school and me getting sent out of the class because I was being a bit too graphic for what the teacher was trying to tell the class.

I remember just before my eldest nephew went to schoolies, I got permission from his friends parents and did a sex talk for them, more along the lines of condoms, how to put them on, STIs etc - I was an educator and home care worker for the aids council at the time so borrowed their education unit. Some of the boys thanked me after they got back from schoolies because I'd de-mistified it for them and they were prepared when they did have sex during schoolies.