Family Reality Breeds Contentment

What are the implications to parents witnessing their child come of age and recognizing the sexual energy that child is exploring? What have the children already learnt from their parents and how has it affected them? When they start asking serious questions, most parents might veer from the truth for many reasons. Time or lack of is a factor. Embarassment is another but when we look at the consequences of not being honest to our children, we see that the reality about sex is much more effective than the lies.

Before parents even get to the birds and bees, it is often better to have had a relationship with their children where talk of the unimportant things is something that is commonplace. If children feel they cannot approach you on the everday things, it is unlikely they will come to you on the very important ones.

Try not to lecture to children, communicate with them through a continuous and honest dialogue throughout their lives.