By the time students finish high school, more than half will have experienced sexual intercourse, and many will have had more than one partner. So every expert will tell you, we need to talk to our kids about sex and we need to start early on. And if you don't know how, this story might help. The real issue is when it is that you start talking to your child about sex, about the body, about the values that you have as a parent that you want to convey to your child and about how comfortable and how open you are about talking to your child. So as soon as your child really starts to be interested in their body or other people's bodies or starts thinking about differences between boys and girls is really when you need to start talking about sex and differences and how the body works.
Sex is a part of intimacy.
Sex is also a sense of your own feelings you have about your body. Sex is also the knowledge you have about your body, about other people's bodies. Sex is the way you think, you feel in a lot of different dimensions so there is a whole lot more to sex than just a sense of intercourse, which is what we as adults tend to focus on which is completely different from what kids focus on. For an older child, you can describe to them and maybe use that as an opportunity to describe to them about sexual intercourse, sexual reproduction, about this is what people do when they make babies. We often have a sense of anxiety about that which is in our head, but not spoken.