Monday, March 1, 2010

When your child asks you about SEX

"Daddy, what is sex?", the million dollar question that haunts many parents with the fear that a wrong answer will dictate a wrong course of a child's future.

No loving parent will be able to avoid this question.  Avoiding it instead of preparing for it is actually dangerous for the innocent child. The moment you say, "You're too young to know about SEX", already shows you are avoiding it. Unfortunately for our current times, we cannot hide "SEX". A child will see it everywhere. It doesn't have to be a naked person having actual intercourse with the opposite sex. A provocative picture seen in a large billboard, a television commercial of a lady asking her partner where his condom is, a passionate kissing scene in a movie, there is just one too many.  Couple that with their young curiosity is a recipe to problems dead ahead.