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post #1 of 10
9/22/04 at 6:07pm
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it is time to have the sex talk? Do you know how you are going to go about it? (Or how you did?)
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post #2 of 10
9/22/04 at 6:11pm
I never got one. The extent I got from my paretns was - If you're gonna do it -be safe and not in our house. thats it besides them offering to buy condoms. (for any of us - me or my brothers)

I haven't really thought much about when the time is to talk to them about it. I think it is a gradual process that should be slowly taught as the child learns about his/her body. I definitly think that the talk needs to be done sooner nowadays than when we were growing up.
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post #3 of 10
9/22/04 at 6:12pm
I have no idea at what age and no idea what I'll say. I'm sure of one thing I want them to learn from me and not friend at school.
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post #4 of 10
9/22/04 at 8:05pm
I never really got a talk, just wait til you're married. I think I will talk to rhyne when she is around 10 (i'll probably lump it in with her period talk, if I don't die of embarassment first!)
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post #5 of 10
9/23/04 at 6:52pm
Sex talk came early for us. She ask question we were truthful with her, and answered them according to her age and what she could handle, knowing she forget and then ask again later and we tell her again. I feel this way they are learning but not to much so they are not over filled with it.
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post #6 of 10
9/23/04 at 9:55pm
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I was watching the Dr. Phil special last night and he was giving advice to a girl that wanted to have the talk with her 9 year old. It seems so young to me but at the same times kids are getting involved in things earlier and earlier....
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post #7 of 10
9/23/04 at 10:29pm
I didn't really get a talk i learned everything at school. My mom did come and ask me when i was 17 if i was having sex and i said yes and she put me on the pill. i hope my kids will be as honest with me as i was with my mom.
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post #8 of 10
9/24/04 at 1:49pm
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Personally I don't rememeber having the talk with my parents. They did say they had talked to me. I know that they told me that you were not supposed to have premartial sex (that it was a sin). I never came to my mom and dad when I started having sex. I tried to sneak and get on the pill but found out I had to have my mothers signature and she actually caught me skipping that day and I told her what I had been doing. Except I told her that I was getting it to regulate my periods. I am sure she knew otherwise... I know she did b/c she has told me. Then I told her the day that I found out I was pregnant. I just want to raise both of my children so they can come to me but at the same time that it isn't the right thing to do.
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post #9 of 10
9/24/04 at 2:56pm
I don't think you can set a set age in your mind of when you plan to have that talk. I think it is just an idea of paying attention to your children and seeing and knowing when they are ready for it. Then ease into it, only giving them the info they are old enough to comprehend.
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post #10 of 10
9/26/04 at 2:47am
I got the "talk" when i asked and that was about 12... My mum and dad never did go into detail or anything and to be honest i would have freaked if they did. I think the "talk" will come to the kids when we feel they are old enough to handle that sort of conversation
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