If you're not sure, ask other parents, your school or church leader about good sex education classes for kids. Find information sources that match the needs and developmental readiness of your child or teenager. Videos, books, pamphlets and even sex education classes for teens are available in most communities if you check around. Then, when you are alone with your child or teen, casually bring up the material and ask what they thought about it. Be sure to look over the material.
Different sources offer different approaches, based on different values.
For example, some will advocate total abstinence from sexual activity until marriage, and some will suggest condoms and actually show how to use them. Explanations of how to use condoms can be graphic in varying degrees. Some of the most detailed programs will explain how to use a condom by demonstrating how to roll one down someone's fingers, or over a banana. Assume that your child is developing sexually a few years earlier than you did. The media has changed, and kids are exposed to a lot of sexual imagery.