What have you told your kids about sex?

Well we first talked to my oldest when he was 5. I was pregnant with my 3rd child and he wanted to know all about how the baby got there. My husband told him about the sperm and the egg and that when they come together you get a baby. That was as much information as he needed, we asked if he had anymore questions and he did not.

When he was 10 he started asking questions again. This time I took him out for sundaes and I used a napkin as a visual. I took part of it and rolled it into an egg shape. Then I took another part and made it look like a worm. Then I explained about the sperm and the egg again. I told him how they needed to come together and that was how a baby was made. Then I asked "Do you have any more questions"

He looked at me and said "How to the sperm and the egg come together?" So I told him that the penis goes into the vagina and that is how it works. The look in his face was priceless. Then I said "Remember this conversation when you are 16 and with your girlfriend."

I think that you need to be honest with kids and tell them as much as they want to know. I would only give them as much information as they are needing.

Good Luck

Wed, 2008-12-03 05:34

I really don't know why so many parents dread giving "the talk".
When my daughter was 5 and I was pregnant with my second, I explained it to her. Daddy put his penis in mommy's vagina and now we are going to have a baby. Then I went on to explain about having sex with someone you love. I answered whatever questions she had and I was very honest.
There is such a thing as too honest, but I think I gave her the answers she needed in a simple way for her to understand at her age. When she's older and comes to me with more questions, I will be more than happy to answer them for her in greater detail.
I think it's really important to explain to our children not only how sex works but why it's so fun. I think we need to stress the importance of having sex with someone we love and respecting our bodies and not giving it away to just anyone.

We have a chance to shape our children into responsible young people, not like all the young little startlets in Hollywood who are getting pregnant at 16. I mean, could you imagine having a baby at that age? It's ridiculous, really.
I want to stress to my daughter that having sex is a responsibility in itself, because if you don't respect yourself you can get pregnant or worse, a disease.

"The talk" is a very important one and can shape how your child views sex. I think the best way to do that is to be very open and answer all questions honestly (even if your face turns red in the process!)

Nathalie

Sun, 2008-12-07 08:22

sadly my oldest walked in on me n my friends watching knocked up n found out where babies really come from. he is now scared! lol he is 7. i then had to tell him how the baby got there...he is still very scared...

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Wed, 2009-03-18 04:02

Why call them "rings"? Plenty of girls such as scottsdale escort are independent escorts and earn a good living. It may not be forever, but at least it can get them through college. I see nothing wrong with it, although, I would prefer my own child find another profession. I think it is ridiculous to make it illegal however. Even Elliot Spitzer was on CNN on the weekend.
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Mon, 2009-03-23 16:55

Elliot Spitzer "failed in a very important way". As I resounded on Arianna's pedigreed networker site, in answer to historian Marvin Kitman's sappy regard for the Victorian era, "Extra testosterone is not what makes leadership possible..." it is what changes laws draped in hypocrisy, into laws that honor the everyman within us.

Take Polybius for example, "There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man."

Now, I'm not suggesting our country should be run by a set of consciences marching dutifully in line, upholding the sacred values of our hearts. That would be just plain dumb, and what about the playtpuses? They can't talk, except to Snow White, and will surely feel left out.

Intellectually, however, I'm glad Spitzer can see some light at the end of the grimy tunnel he and his fellow politicians have created, which happens to house the most interesting (for lack of a better word) justification for rape that I've ever seen siphoned from my pocketbook.

Being paid for sex, agreeing to be prostituted for sex, deciding to sell sex because it's the best economic choice available to you (and you're a capitalist like the rest of 'em)...makes it still rape. Just as eating canned beans that are paid for through welfare does not make you the king your crack mother had hoped for in her "better life than I had" dreams that fall flat on their faces. With rich people watching and clinking glasses of that pinkish stuff.

Spitzer signed up to uphold all laws, one that's especially near and dear to our hearts...the SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE law. Who gives a crap how he treats his own wife behind closed doors, Americans are German like that, but if his signature or influence is going to land on documents (much like those our forebearers writ)...that state quite plainly,

"gay people ought not to disrupt la-la's land with their silly ideas of wholeness, and love"...

then, he best work quite hard to show us all, that the privilege of his position is one not to be taken for granted, even for a slippery moment down a convenient and sexy slope.

Does he have a right to "comment" on the AIG bonuses, bygones all gone? Sure, you betcha Elliot, comment like the restuvus. Go Seinfeld!!!

'Cept, hanker on over to Arianna's Icarus-inspired Greek Myth site, and be one of a mere 5 commenters. Because if someone wants to know what you think, feel, and believe in,... besides examining with an always homemade, just like my husband's father used Kent comb, that record you'll be luggin' around for the rest of your "better off a Samurai" lifetime, we'll letcha know.

Personally, I'm so busy on the Momversation, and watching Chelsea Handler on Leno, and warding of jealous SAHMs...I may stop by, I may not. It all depends on whether or not Blagojevich really turns out to be a cowboy.

(and all this, before 9:30 in the morning, central time)

Tue, 2009-03-24 07:35