Will you teach your kids about sex?

[The Dinosaur Next Door]

...It's shocking to me how few people have been taught about sex by their parents. I mean, wtf are parents for, if not teaching? confused  

[Captain Jaster]

my mom didnt talk to me about anything.she made me read a book called
Whats Going On Down There.  

[BlaqkWinter76]

My parents were so useless.
They were so caught up in their divorce. And my mom totally thought she had me under this rock, so i didn't have to know anything. My dad, well was a typical father and never had the talk. Nor did I want it.

Mainly the internet and my friends is how i've been keeping up with stuff like this.

And being i'm weird about talking, i would probably tell my kids to go watch some porn and go here and there and learn on your own, just don't be stupid and experiment. sweatdrop  

[Red Glacier]

I tried hard not to post this but i did  

[shiny dollar]

Assuming my children will inherit my brains...no.

I learnt about it on my own, my parents never mentioned it. It just sort of creeped into my mind through books and magazines and television and the internets and talking with friends....  

[LishaKitty]

*sighs and grins* Viral C....that was evil.

Thankfully I wasn't drinking any soda when I read that or right now I would be busy cleaning my computer screen due to the mess the soda would have caused. Yes it was worth quite a few laughes.

Now the only question that comes to mind is...would have the soda come out of me nose...or my mouth? *ponders*

Truthfully....I hope it wouldn't have come out of my nose since soda hurts.  

[sahihen]

My parents didn't even give me a talk about anything. Not even my period. My mom just gave me a pad and said this is what you do with it.
I found everything out from the internet, school, tv, ect.
Honestly I don't plan on having kids. There little evil attention whores. But if I did have kids then yeah I would tell them, I'd try to to get them to expirence a lot of things that my parents didn't. No one should have parents like mine who don't tell you anything about life.  

[TieselGirl09]

I personally can't wait to have my own children, obviously I'd have to wait for a loooong time because I'm young and I would like a stable relationship and marriage first. Although the outcome still going to be the same if I was or wasn't married. Anyho. Yes I would teach my kid's about sex. I learn't about it when I was about 7 year's old in school. Which is quite an early age I though. But hey did never the less. Personally I don't think that children should be taught about sex until they were 16 and old enough to handle the information well. Most children go out and get pregnant where I live. I mean... I'm 18 and all my friends older than me are married, living together and they have hildren by the time they are 19/20 and the younger one's are pregnant. We had quite a few pregnant 13 year old's in school and where I used to live. Andit wasn't very nice. I think that the more children know about sex the worse the outcome is gonna be. I personally think that they shouldn't know till they are at least 16.

 

[The Dinosaur Next Door]

I couldn't have kids, so all my comments here are speculation. That said, I think it's important that parents talk to their kids about things... How else are they to gain trustworthy knowledge about important life issues?  

[invisible-weirdo]

Tiesel: While I agree that teaching your kids all this at 7 is a little early, 16 seems a bit late to me =/ I understand you want them to be mature enough to be able to handle the information, but usually by 16, they've learned most of it all already either through word of mouth, school, or just the internet. Also, by then I'm sure quite a few of their peers are at least starting to experiment (I'm not saying every 16-year-old goes out and randomly ******** the kid that sits next to them in class, I'm just saying that, where I grew up, the 16-year-olds had long since lost their virginity and quite a few of them were pregnant too) so whatever information you want to give might be late.  

[Rica is insane]

Okay you know what I learned the mechanics of sex in 5th grade health class.

Why?

I had to work on a HUGE project (one where you had to explain everything, had pictures to help explain, a worksheet that had a summary of everything in the presentation AND a assignment pertaining to the subject) in that class about the reproductive system.

Needless to say I became incredibly familiar with it all that year. Afterwards I read a book I found here at my house and got a better idea and anything I had questions on I researched myself or just asked.

My parents didn't even have to teach me XD.

 

[invisible-weirdo]

lol Because Rica is just that good =P

...Y'know what I noticed? Looking at everyone and their own experiences with this, I realize that honestly? Kids are smarter than we give them credit for. Most of the posts in this thread had something along the lines of 'my parents didn't do squat and I learned it all on my own.' If a parent doesn't actively go out and teach their children about this, it's not the end of the world =/ Either they'll be curious enough to ask themselves or if they feel too uncomfortable bringing up the subject, they'll go ahead and find the answers for themselves. They're resourceful dammit >.<

...Sorry, I'm rather babbly tonight. I guess my point was that it seems quite a few people feel like 'oh if I don't teach my kids about this then who will? No one! And they'll grow up confused and unaware and they won't be able to make decisions on their own and blah blah blah.' Bleh. Super babbly tonight. Y'know what? Just ignore any and all posts from me from now on sweatdrop  

[Alarias]

124-C

"Sex is for after marriage only, as such there is no reason to discuss it."

...I learned about it on my own...

Didn't read the whole thread but, that was the general idea my family had and I don't ever plan on having kids.
If, god forbid, I do have kids one day....I guess I'd just really try my hardest to give them all the information I can find about pregnancy. I was really shocked when I learned how much I didn't know about it...and there were a lot of girls in my school that really didn't have a good enough understanding of what is involved with having babies before they got knocked up. So, yeah.  

[Shram]

I am an old ATG member =]

My parents never spoke of this stuff to me
The closest they've gotten was my dad saying
"Sean.. you know about sex and stuff right"
"Yeah"
"ok good...."
He then was silent for 2 hours.

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[BlaqkWinter76]

Haha, the best thing my dad said to me not only a day after i posted here:

"There are three things. Sex, drugs and rock n' roll. You can only have one. Do you know which one?"
"Yeah dad. I get it."
"Kay good."

XD