Is it too early to talk about sex to my 8 yr old boy?

Question

He is very smart, and I think he will understand but I am afraid I might open him up to curiosity?

Answer 1

It's never too early for an age appropriate discussion about sex (or anything) I think that's one thing parents don't do enough. Your kids are capable of carrying on a conversation on topics like sex, war, violence, anger, hate, love, drinking, drugs, religion, teachers, etc.

Make the discussions a 2 way event, no matter the topic. For the sex talk, it might help to arm yourself with books aimed at 8 year olds before you start the conversation. Use the book as part of the talk and give your son the book to read on his own.

Answer 2

We started this discussion when my boys where 9 yrs old, we bought a book for them which was specially designed to teach children the basics of development and sex education but where there if they needed or wanted to ask anything. Perhaps you could buy him a book like this or maybe wait until he starts asking questions, you know him best so if you feel hes ready then it may be a good time to open the subject

Answer 3

I would bet you that when you sat him down for the talk, you would be the one amazed. I have a 9 year old daughter and I do my best to not do anything sexual at all in front of her and yet... I was shopping one day when my sitter called my girlfriend and I to tell us that our daughter & her son[5] were just busted "trying to have sex." Don't get me wrong, they weren't literally having sex, but they were under the covers[clothes on] and said that's what they were doing. They know what it is already, whether we want them to or not...didn't you? I did. I am crushed by the fact that she has been exposed to these things but it flows through the schools and things other children see and things they sneek a peak at on TV. I just learned that my girlfriend's mom lets our daughter watch "The L Word." I love "The L Word" and I have nothing against lesbians, because I am one, but I would NEVER allow my 9 year old to watch it....NEVER!!!! Yet she does! If the child is intelligent and mature and you think he can handle it...I'm sure you're right. I would talk to him before it's too late and he's already had an experience.

Answer 4

well there is a saying i JUST heard the other day and it was "the only virgins in this world are ugly 12 yr olds" i was shocked....i have worked with children for the past seven years and i really think that now days you need to start out young....if you think he is emotionally ready then go for it....you won't open him up to curiosity he will probably be embaressed but alot of the kids who don't get the sex talk go out and see what sex is and then we end up with babies having babies....be open be honest and let him ask questions....he probably won't but reasure him that for any reason he can come talk to you....my mom and i used a secret code word so that way my dad or my sisters didn't know what needed to talk about....we would go have a coke in the basement and just talk about whatever it was on our minds our what i was curious about.....it helped me in knowing the consiquences if i choose to have sex....and i wasn't an ugly 12 yr old but i choose to stay a virgin....

Answer 5

Its NEVER too early--- but keep it age-appropriate. Wait for him, or circumstances, to bring up the subject.
I began explaining things when my kids were really little and saw animals acting 'uninhibited'--- that way they kind of grew up knowing, bit by bit. And if they asked a question I answered it honestly and completely--- but ONLY that question, until they asked the next one. Like, "Where do babies come from?" does not have to include an answer of 'how' they get in the mother's tummy until the child asks that question.
But try to answer these question just like you'd answer any other question--- the less big deal you make of it, the better it will be for your child.

Answer 6

Do you remember being 10 years old. you're able to have intercourse at that age. you are able to play video games or well-being care expert at that age. you are able to't say any think of to any baby below the age of consent approximately intercourse without breaking some regulations as they are written. yet you're able to say some factor to the mummy and dad,colleges and well-being care expert. My question of the youngster's parent could did the youngster get the belief of attempting to have intercourse with somebody, What the hell is going on in that family members. Yea i could could call family members service approximately that. i began out fooling around with the ladies at approximately that age, yet became as a rule touching and feeling. i did no longer decide putting till i became approximately 12 years old and by using then the ladies weren't complaining or telling there mum and dad and that became because of the fact i chanced on a %. of prono card in a uncle dressor the place i wouldn't have been

Answer 7

Yes I agree...that is a young age but now a days they are starting younger and younger. If I were u I wouldn't go into great detail about it but I would touch on the subject, at that age he has proberly already been hunching (lol) my lil sis is 10 and I know she already like boys, and that didn't just start this yr. so u know....

Answer 8

Is he asking questions? If he is not then leave well enough alone. You will know the time is right when he begins to ask. Don't offer too much more than what he asks. He may need the information in small amounts

Answer 9

It is the right time. If all kids knew the truth when they were 8 years old then there would be a lot less teen pregnancy.

Answer 10

Of course not. At four and six, you should have already been making sure he knew the proper body part names - boys have a penis and testicles, girls have a vagina and a vulva. He needs to know where babies come from (explain everything according to your family values, of course); the basic biology. It is better that you are open to explaining things to him, than him believing myths and junk he will be hearing at school. Keep yourself open to questions and answer them honestly.