Having ‘The Talk’ with Kids
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Parent and neighbor Rachel Sherman remembers her diagram-minded father drawing out the nitty gritty details of sex in a new article on Babble, and wonders if, even though she may try to avoid repeating the lesson with her own children, she might anyway:
Along with the surprise that so many of the parenting clichés are actually true, has come the realization that perhaps my parents, as parents, had no other choice than to act as they had; their choices are now understandable, and often not far from my own.
Though sex education is now mandatory in public schools, that’s not until middle and high school. As a parent, how do you handle the topic when kids are younger–books, straight talk…drawings–and is it much different from how your parents presented it to you?
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Art Vandelay
