Parent discussion ●Quick background ( actually inspired by another thread I’ve seen today). I love my parents and si...
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Parent discussion
●Quick background ( actually inspired by another thread I’ve seen today). I love my parents and sister but none of us ever, ever talked about sex, puberty, relationships etc. Husband family the same. As such, we’re both very reserved and awkward when it comes to talking about any of these things - him way more than me. He won’t even use correct anatomical names for certain body parts ie the correct terms used if you went to aee a doctor. he often skirts around the word or says ‘thing’. We’ve talked about it and he says growing up nobody in the house ever used correct names and it was always v awkward and now as an adult he finds it very difficult and I feel the same.
we have a Daughter (5) and Son (2) and I don’t want it to be like this in our family. I want it to be normal, feel normal and comfortable and for my children to feel comfortable talking to us about anything - as it should be. I suppose I’m asking for tips or advice on how to do this? As it is now I always try and answer questions using correct words, dressing/ undressing in front of the kids when it naturally happens (even dh does this actually) but I guess I’m wondering how everyone else approaches this? I want my kids to feel like they can talk to me about anything - if they don’t want to that’s fine and I fully expect that they’ll go to friends etc before me maybe but if they want to talk to me about anything I want them to know they can. I learned all about puberty/ sex at school with a lot of misinformation and I’ll like to be able to talk to my own children about this to know that they’re getting the correct info etc.
any tips/ advice gratefully received! My children are quite young but my daughter is already asking questions and I want to set a good example now. Thank you.
Sent in by Donna
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