parents: how old are your kids? and..?
do they know about sex, sexuality, parenting, adoption, abortion, pregnancy, std’s, birth control, abstinence, statistics, and teen pregnancy?
facts as well as your opinions on the topics and the difference between fact and opinion?
i believe that kids are not being educated on ALL the topics. parents seem to be uncomfortable with teaching their children or want to wait it out, but then it becomes too late.
my son just turned 3. right after he turned 2 i found out i was pregnant. he knows A LOT about pregnancy. he came with me to all my doctor appointments and sonagrams. and we talked about things all the time. he knows that i have my birth control pills on the night stand in my room and they are so i do not have another baby until mommy and daddy are ready for another. he also knows that girls have a monthly period when they are not pregnant. (he found my pads and asked what they were for.)
he asks i tell.
My children 5, 3.5, 2.5 & 18 month twins, they are all boys. I’m currently quite pregnant almost 8 months so there has been lots of conversations about pregnancy with my 3 oldest and I have been honest with them without being graphic. My twins just want to know why mummy’s tummy was so big and all they know is that their new baby sister is living in mummy’s tummy till she is ready to come out and that they were once in there too.
They do know about adoption as my 2.5 yr old son is adopted. He was our god child and lost his biological mother shortly after he was born and his biological father (my husbands best friend) passed away 6 months ago, so as was his biological fathers wish & ours as well we adopt him.
Sexuality is something my children are very neutral on, they have been exposed to all sorts of couples and families and my husband and I believe its very important for our children never to see any difference between straight and gay people. My children understand that boys can like girls or boys can like boys or girls can like girls or that sometime a person can like boys and girls and that is completely normal, just like having different hair colour. I would never want my children to look at their uncle and say your different because you like boys, I want my children to look at their uncle and not even respond to him having a male partner, I want it to be inconsequential completely irrelevant.
They really don’t know about abortion, std’s or birth control. They also don’t know any thing about abstinence, which I don’t believe in. I will teach my children to wait until they feel ready and not to be pushed into sex, I will also teach them to be safe.
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Living and Growing [VHS] £39.99 … |
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Starting Out [VHS] £23.44 … |
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Primary Sex Education [VHS] £14.99 … |
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A-Z of Love and Sex [DVD] £29.38 … |
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The New Guide to Relationships and Sex [DVD] £116.33 … |