Helpful Sex Education For Parents

By Claudine Hodges


Parents play a very important role in educating children because most children trust their guardians more than other person. Sex education for parents helps guardians present the true facts on sex to their children in the correct manner. School curricula has one or two topics on sex education, but most children would prefer to ask their questions at home rather than in the midst of friends at school.

Children from homes where sex issues are often discussed are known to become sexually active later in age than those who do not discuss the issue. This may be because most children trust the information given to them by their guardians over any other thing they hear. In schools, sex education is only one topic that is taught within a maximum of a few hours. Parents have their whole childhood to discuss the issue.

The school should give their children all the information they need on any issue including sex. The schools are reluctant to bring up the issue. Most fathers shy away from the sex discussion, especially with their female children. It is not a good thing to give information with a lot of ambiguity. Mothers talk more, but have difficulty explaining things to boys. Some societies and religions discourage talking about sex. Parents falling in these societies may never bring the issue up.

Parents need to prepare for the topic of sex to teach their children. They can read books and online materials that are appropriate for the age group of their children. It is also important for guardians to prepare in advance rather than wait for their children to begin asking questions. It is better to be prepared than to not be at all.

Discussing sex with the child should start before the child reaches puberty. This will prepare them to understand the changes their bodies would go through when they reach puberty. Also, the information gathered by the parent should not be dumped on the child in a short time. The guardians need to take a lot of time over the years to make sure information is well absorbed. The format of sex education should be just that. The child should feel okay asking questions rather than just listening to a long lecture.

Openness and honesty on the parent's part is very important. Parents should be able to provide information that is direct and concise with no ambiguity. Children would always ask why they are being told to do or not to do something. This applies to sex education as well. The guardians should be able to answer all those questions. When the guardians are not be able to provide answers to a question posed by their child immediately; the child should be made aware. The guardians should make an effort to obtain the answer in the shortest time.

The right moment to talk about sex is what most guardians are unable to determine. The moments of starting education on sex education is when the child asks a related question. It can also be when something sexual comes up on the television while the child is watching.

Parents can take the opportunity to start the discussion. Guardians need to provide the correct information regarding sex, so no one else feeds their children with wrong information.




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