2006-10-10 02:42:38 · 22 answers · asked by reeni 5 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
6 or 7 should be a good age, it depends on how mature your children are. When you finally do sit down to have the talk, it's best to use the proper terms when referring to body parts. If you have a daughter, talk to her before she gets her first menstrual cycle.
2006-10-10 02:57:36 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 28 and have been pregnant twice but my mom still has not had the talk with me. I told my 11 year old boy when he was 8. He was asking and I figured that it would be best if he heard about the responsiblility and dangers from me than get his first lesson from kids at school that are just trying to be like their big brothers and sisters. That is how I found out and I knew a lot of people who were messing around before they should be.
2006-10-10 07:05:32 · answer #2 · answered by Carolee B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL...I didn't wait. When I was four I came home with a potty mouth from school. My mother told me about sex and I learned from a book, "Where did I come from." My five year old learned last year when he started asking questions about why we have so many (physical) differences. He was four at the time. I went out--I got the same book and I explained it to him. He hasn't asked questions since. I made sure I let him understand that it is "normal" to ask questions. It is normal to be curious. It important that he and my husband any questions he has. I let him know that it's not good to touch girls (or boys) in "private" places. I let him know that anything he wonders to feel free to talk to us. Ever since then the questions have stopped and I feel he understands things completely. I feel it's important to get the sex talk over at a young age--of course in an age appropriate manner. I think that opens the line of communication young and kids feel they can ask all anytime. If parents would approach the issue earlier and not make a HUGE deal about it, I doubt there would be so many issues later on down the road.
2006-10-10 03:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by .vato. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was about 7 when my mom told me, and that was fine, but before she told me the thruth, she said babies came from your belly button. She also told me she didn't know what I was talking about when I asked her about the "extra" hole *down there* and that was wrong of her to confuse me like that. My daughter is 3 right now and I plan on telling her when she's about 5 or 6. I think the younger a child is, the better. If you tell someone when their older, I think it's a little more traumatic. If they know from the beginning, it will be normal for them.
2006-10-10 02:47:29 · answer #4 · answered by Squirrel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think with every child it is different depending on the maturity or readiness of the child. My oldest I told him at 5, middle child I started to tell him at 7,he so -so knows, has a general idea but not alot of details.youngest has not been told.
2006-10-10 03:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by loladoreen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My child was 6 when I told her where babies come from
2006-10-10 02:45:09 · answer #6 · answered by Boo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My oldest was 6 when I got pregnant with her sister and she asked my mom where babies came from and Mom being the grandmother she is informed her babies came from JC Penny you ordered them out of the catalog and months later they came in. Finally after weeks of her driving us nuts about this we sat her down and explained that the baby was in my tummy and would come out in 9 months she didn't fully understand but enough to get the idea now at 14 where she can understand more she says there aint no way she is having one cause it has to hurt!
2006-10-10 11:30:54 · answer #7 · answered by Martha S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We were answering questions from probably about age 3, but he really knew at age six. It's important to be open early because we wanted to be able to dispell myths and junk he would hear at school. Gave more info each year as he matured, and answered any questions he had along the way.
2006-10-10 03:42:20 · answer #8 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter was 4 when I told her. I was pregnant with my 2nd child and she had alot of questions!
2006-10-10 07:05:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my daughter is 8 and i have been giving a little bit of information for about 2 years now..my mother had me so well informed that i don't remember my first period.. because it was not a shock.. my plan is.. when her body is developed enough to have a baby (her first period) she will know all that her body is doing.. then i will have a "sex" talk with her.. although she already knows alittle bit...
2006-10-10 03:10:19 · answer #10 · answered by c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋