The Importance Of 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.

Most societies frown on the discussion of sexual issues. Most guardians are also tight-lipped on the issue because they did not get anybody to talk to them about sex during their childhood. Some also believe teachers are responsible for giving their children sex education. It is observed that most mothers are more comfortable discussing sex related issues with their children than fathers.

It takes knowledge on the issue to provide accurate information. Parents can read books to be able to get information on sex topics for various age groups. The internet also has a lot of information resources, which guardians can take advantage of. Parents need to be well prepared in advance before their children have questions to ask.

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.

Parents need to be very honest with their children regarding sexual issues. Answers to their questions need to be direct, without any ambiguity. When the parent does not have answers to the questions asked by their child; the parent should clearly say so and offer to get the answers later on. Children mostly want to know the whys of a conversation and the conversation should provide that.

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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