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Great question! The first thing to know is that you’ll want to have ongoing conversations that start very early with age-appropriate information. As a parent, you teach your child about sexual health, which includes sex,
but also includes a lot of other topics like body science, personal hygiene, healthy relationships and consent. Talking about sexual health information requires more than just one long talk.
To understand what information children should know at different ages, click here.
There are many way to bring up these topics as well as build them into every day conversations. And there are many ways to make the conversation easier for you and your child. Click here to learn more. Just remember, start early and talk often!
Don’t be alarmed- this is a very common question that children have, and depending on their age and development, you may want give more or less detail.
For example, a 3 year old may be satisfied with "babies grow in a special place inside a mom’s body called a uterus". However, a 6 year old may have more questions about how the baby grows,
and may want to know how it will come out. You could give more detail by saying “when a man’s sperm joins a woman’s egg during sexual intercourse, a baby grows in the uterus and is born through the vagina”.
Try your best to teach your child the correct names for private body parts and to avoid nicknames.
Teaching your child the correct names for private body parts is a great way to encourage healthy sexuality and development.
But even more than that, teaching your child the right terms to use can help them stay safe if someone tries to touch them sexually.
They will have the knowledge and words to tell an adult they trust. Click here to learn more.
Children start puberty at different ages; however it’s common for females to experience puberty changes earlier than males.
Females may begin puberty between the ages of 8 and 16 while males will start sometime between the ages of 9 and 14.
Give your child the facts about their body and a basic understanding of puberty before they start to experience changes. This will help ease their fears and show them that these changes are normal and healthy.
A great starting point is to teach your child to use the correct language for their own body parts and teach them that they are in control of who touches their body and how.
Encourage your child to share ideas of what good and bad touch looks like in their own words.
You can talk about the feelings a person may have with okay or not-okay touch and how they are different from each other. These conversations will be ongoing and will change as your child gets older.
This can be tricky to understand and to talk about, but knowing the basics can get you off to a good start. Sexual orientation is a person’s emotional and sexual attraction to others.
It can change and may or may not reflect their sexual behaviours. Gender identity is a person’s internal sense of identity as female, male, both or neither, regardless of the sex they are given at birth.
For more definitions and information, go here.
Talking to your teen about the emotional, physical and social aspects of sexual activity can help you have conversations about safer sex. It’s important to know that any type of sexual contact involves some risk. Talk often with your teen about how abstinence, consent, birth control and condoms are all parts of practicing safer sex which reduce the risk of STIs and pregnancy. Abstinence—completely avoiding sexual contact, including intercourse or oral sex—is the only certain way to prevent STIs and pregnancy.
For more information: go here.
Sometimes getting your kid to talk to you about what they are feeling and experiencing can be hard. There are a few things you can do to help you and your child feel more comfortable and confident in talking about sexual health- this is
called being an “Askable Adult”. Being an askable adult means that you are approachable, that you listen, and that you respect the confidentiality and feelings being expressed by your child, teen or any other youth that comes to you.
An askable adult teaches their child through words, but also through their own behaviour and their reactions to situations, questions and other’s behaviour.
Click here to learn more about being an askable adult for your teen. To learn more about becoming an askable adult for your child, click here. For more tips on communication, click here.
A teachable moment is an opportunity for conversation that presents itself in everyday life, and gives parents a way to start a conversation about tricky or uncomfortable topics.
There are many ways that teachable moments can be useful in talking about sexual health. For example, hearing news stories on the radio, watching scenes from TV shows or movies, reading social media posts,
and situation that involve people in your family or social circle such as a pregnancy, can all serve as good starting points for important conversations that can be uncomfortable or awkward!
Teachable moments can help you to discuss your values and beliefs around sexual health with your child in safe, non-threatening way. To learn more about talking about your values and beliefs, go here.
And for more communication tips, go here.
Great question! The first thing to know is that you’ll want to have ongoing conversations that start very early with age-appropriate information. As a parent, you teach your child about sexual health, which includes sex,
but also includes a lot of other topics like body science, personal hygiene, healthy relationships and consent. Talking about sexual health information requires more than just one long talk.
To understand what information children should know at different ages, click here.
There are many way to bring up these topics as well as build them into every day conversations. And there are many ways to make the conversation easier for you and your child. Click here to learn more. Just remember, start early and talk often!
Don’t be alarmed- this is a very common question that children have, and depending on their age and development, you may want give more or less detail.
For example, a 3 year old may be satisfied with "babies grow in a special place inside a mom’s body called a uterus". However, a 6 year old may have more questions about how the baby grows,
and may want to know how it will come out. You could give more detail by saying “when a man’s sperm joins a woman’s egg during sexual intercourse, a baby grows in the uterus and is born through the vagina”.
Try your best to teach your child the correct names for private body parts and to avoid nicknames.
Teaching your child the correct names for private body parts is a great way to encourage healthy sexuality and development.
But even more than that, teaching your child the right terms to use can help them stay safe if someone tries to touch them sexually.
They will have the knowledge and words to tell an adult they trust. Click here to learn more.
Children start puberty at different ages; however it’s common for females to experience puberty changes earlier than males.
Females may experience puberty changes between the ages of 8 and 16 while males will go through it sometime between the ages of 12 and 18.
Give your child the facts about their body and a basic understanding of puberty before they start to experience changes. This will help ease their fears and show them that these changes are normal and healthy.
A great starting point is to teach your child to use the correct language for their own body parts and teach them that they are in control of who touches their body and how.
Encourage your child to share ideas of what good and bad touch looks like in their own words.
You can talk about the feelings a person may have with okay touch or not-okay touch and how they are different from each other. These conversations will be ongoing and will change as your child gets older.
This can be tricky to understand and to talk about, but knowing the basics can get you off to a good start. Sexual orientation is a person’s emotional and sexual attraction to others.
It can change and may or may not reflect their sexual behaviours. Gender identity is a person’s internal sense of identity as female, male, both or neither, regardless of the sex they are given at birth.
For more definitions and information, go here.
Talking to your teen about the emotional, physical and social aspects of sexual activity can help you have conversations about safer sex. It’s important to know that any type of sexual contact involves some risk. Talk often with your teen about how abstinence, consent, birth control and condoms are all parts of practicing safer sex which reduce the risk of STIs and pregnancy. Abstinence—completely avoiding sexual contact, including intercourse or oral sex—is the only certain way to prevent STIs and pregnancy.
For more information: go here.
Sometimes getting your kid to talk to you about what they are feeling and experiencing can be hard. There are a few things you can do to help you and your child feel more comfortable and confident in talking about sexual health- this is
called being an “Askable Adult”. Being an askable adult means that you are approachable, that you listen, and that you respect the confidentiality and feelings being expressed by your child, teen or any other youth that comes to you.
An askable adult teaches their child through words, but also through their own behaviour and their reactions to situations, questions and other’s behaviour.
Click here to learn more about being an askable adult for your teen. To learn more about becoming an askable adult for your child, click here. For more tips on communication, click here.
A teachable moment is an opportunity for conversation that presents itself in everyday life, and gives parents a way to start a conversation about tricky or uncomfortable topics.
There are many ways that teachable moments can be useful in talking about sexual health. For example, hearing news stories on the radio, watching scenes from TV shows or movies, reading social media posts,
and situation that involve people in your family or social circle such as a pregnancy, can all serve as good starting points for important conversations that can be uncomfortable or awkward!
Teachable moments can help you to discuss your values and beliefs around sexual health with your child in safe, non-threatening way. To learn more about talking about your values and beliefs, go here.
And for more communication tips, go here.
Great question! The first thing to know is that you’ll want to have ongoing conversations that start very early with age-appropriate information. As a parent, you teach your child about sexual health, which includes sex,
but also includes a lot of other topics like body science, personal hygiene, healthy relationships and consent. Talking about sexual health information requires more than just one long talk.
To understand what information children should know at different ages, click here.
There are many way to bring up these topics as well as build them into every day conversations. And there are many ways to make the conversation easier for you and your child. Click here to learn more. Just remember, start early and talk often!
Don’t be alarmed- this is a very common question that children have, and depending on their age and development, you may want give more or less detail.
For example, a 3 year old may be satisfied with "babies grow in a special place inside a mom’s body called a uterus". However, a 6 year old may have more questions about how the baby grows,
and may want to know how it will come out. You could give more detail by saying “when a man’s sperm joins a woman’s egg during sexual intercourse, a baby grows in the uterus and is born through the vagina”.
Try your best to teach your child the correct names for private body parts and to avoid nicknames.
Teaching your child the correct names for private body parts is a great way to encourage healthy sexuality and development.
But even more than that, teaching your child the right terms to use can help them stay safe if someone tries to touch them sexually.
They will have the knowledge and words to tell an adult they trust. Click here to learn more.
Children start puberty at different ages; however it’s common for females to experience puberty changes earlier than males.
Females may experience puberty changes between the ages of 8 and 16 while males will go through it sometime between the ages of 12 and 18.
Give your child the facts about their body and a basic understanding of puberty before they start to experience changes. This will help ease their fears and show them that these changes are normal and healthy.
A great starting point is to teach your child to use the correct language for their own body parts and teach them that they are in control of who touches their body and how.
Encourage your child to share ideas of what good and bad touch looks like in their own words.
You can talk about the feelings a person may have with good or bad touch and how they are different from each other. These conversations will be ongoing and will change as your child gets older.
This can be tricky to understand and to talk about, but knowing the basics can get you off to a good start. Sexual orientation is a person’s emotional and sexual attraction to others.
It can change and may or may not reflect their sexual behaviours. Gender identity is a person’s internal sense of identity as female, male, both or neither, regardless of the sex they are given at birth.
For more definitions and information, go here.
Talking to your teen about the emotional, physical and social aspects of sexual activity can help you have conversations about safer sex. It’s important to know that any type of sexual contact involves some risk. Talk often with your teen about how abstinence, consent, birth control and condoms are all parts of practicing safer sex which reduce the risk of STIs and pregnancy. Abstinence—completely avoiding sexual contact, including intercourse or oral sex—is the only certain way to prevent STIs and pregnancy.
For more information: go here.
Sometimes getting your kid to talk to you about what they are feeling and experiencing can be hard. There are a few things you can do to help you and your child feel more comfortable and confident in talking about sexual health- this is
called being an “Askable Adult”. Being an askable adult means that you are approachable, that you listen, and that you respect the confidentiality and feelings being expressed by your child, teen or any other youth that comes to you.
An askable adult teaches their child through words, but also through their own behaviour and their reactions to situations, questions and other’s behaviour.
Click here to learn more about being an askable adult for your teen. To learn more about becoming an askable adult for your child, click here. For more tips on communication, click here.
A teachable moment is an opportunity for conversation that presents itself in everyday life, and gives parents a way to start a conversation about tricky or uncomfortable topics.
There are many ways that teachable moments can be useful in talking about sexual health. For example, hearing news stories on the radio, watching scenes from TV shows or movies, reading social media posts,
and situation that involve people in your family or social circle such as a pregnancy, can all serve as good starting points for important conversations that can be uncomfortable or awkward!
Teachable moments can help you to discuss your values and beliefs around sexual health with your child in safe, non-threatening way. To learn more about talking about your values and beliefs, go here.
And for more communication tips, go here.
Great question! The first thing to know is that you’ll want to have ongoing conversations that start very early with age-appropriate information. As a parent, you teach your child about sexual health, which includes sex,
but also includes a lot of other topics like body science, personal hygiene, healthy relationships and consent. Talking about sexual health information requires more than just one long talk.
To understand what information children should know at different ages, click here.
There are many way to bring up these topics as well as build them into every day conversations. And there are many ways to make the conversation easier for you and your child. Click here to learn more. Just remember, start early and talk often!
Don’t be alarmed- this is a very common question that children have, and depending on their age and development, you may want give more or less detail.
For example, a 3 year old may be satisfied with "babies grow in a special place inside a mom’s body called a uterus". However, a 6 year old may have more questions about how the baby grows,
and may want to know how it will come out. You could give more detail by saying “when a man’s sperm joins a woman’s egg during sexual intercourse, a baby grows in the uterus and is born through the vagina”.
Try your best to teach your child the correct names for private body parts and to avoid nicknames.
Teaching your child the correct names for private body parts is a great way to encourage healthy sexuality and development.
But even more than that, teaching your child the right terms to use can help them stay safe if someone tries to touch them sexually.
They will have the knowledge and words to tell an adult they trust. Click here to learn more.
Children start puberty at different ages; however it’s common for females to experience puberty changes earlier than males.
Females may experience puberty changes between the ages of 8 and 16 while males will go through it sometime between the ages of 12 and 18.
Give your child the facts about their body and a basic understanding of puberty before they start to experience changes. This will help ease their fears and show them that these changes are normal and healthy.
A great starting point is to teach your child to use the correct language for their own body parts and teach them that they are in control of who touches their body and how.
Encourage your child to share ideas of what good and bad touch looks like in their own words.
You can talk about the feelings a person may have with good or bad touch and how they are different from each other. These conversations will be ongoing and will change as your child gets older.
This can be tricky to understand and to talk about, but knowing the basics can get you off to a good start. Sexual orientation is a person’s emotional and sexual attraction to others.
It can change and may or may not reflect their sexual behaviours. Gender identity is a person’s internal sense of identity as female, male, both or neither, regardless of the sex they are given at birth.
For more definitions and information, go here.
Talking to your teen about the emotional, physical and social aspects of sexual activity can help you have conversations about safer sex. It’s important to know that any type of sexual contact involves some risk. Talk often with your teen about how abstinence, consent, birth control and condoms are all parts of practicing safer sex which reduce the risk of STIs and pregnancy. Abstinence—completely avoiding sexual contact, including intercourse or oral sex—is the only certain way to prevent STIs and pregnancy.
For more information: go here.
Sometimes getting your kid to talk to you about what they are feeling and experiencing can be hard. There are a few things you can do to help you and your child feel more comfortable and confident in talking about sexual health- this is
called being an “Askable Adult”. Being an askable adult means that you are approachable, that you listen, and that you respect the confidentiality and feelings being expressed by your child, teen or any other youth that comes to you.
An askable adult teaches their child through words, but also through their own behaviour and their reactions to situations, questions and other’s behaviour.
Click here to learn more about being an askable adult for your teen. To learn more about becoming an askable adult for your child, click here. For more tips on communication, click here.
A teachable moment is an opportunity for conversation that presents itself in everyday life, and gives parents a way to start a conversation about tricky or uncomfortable topics.
There are many ways that teachable moments can be useful in talking about sexual health. For example, hearing news stories on the radio, watching scenes from TV shows or movies, reading social media posts,
and situation that involve people in your family or social circle such as a pregnancy, can all serve as good starting points for important conversations that can be uncomfortable or awkward!
Teachable moments can help you to discuss your values and beliefs around sexual health with your child in safe, non-threatening way. To learn more about talking about your values and beliefs, go here.
And for more communication tips, go here.