QUESTIONS CHILDREN AND PARENTS ASK ABOUT SEX
Once children get to school they discuss sex just as they would anything else. Both during this and the later phases leading up to puberty we feel that a child’s parents are the best people to give information because they know the child and what he can cope with day by day and year by year. Parents also have the advantage over formal systems in that they can take opportunities as they arise and use them to talk about sex in an informal, unplanned way. Satisfying a child’s curiosity is ideally done in a spontaneous way and the old notion of saying nothing until you sit your child down to talk about ‘the birds and the bees’ is not only unfashionable but far less pleasant for both child and parent.
There is so much in daily life that raises questions about sex that can be dealt with a low-key, matter-of-fact way that the average child can end up very well sex-educated without ever realising it. TV, shopping, the people a child meets and his or her mother’s experiences with carrying, bearing and rearing a baby can all lead to questions which are best answered simply at the time.
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