Be Your Child's Sex education Teacher - It's safer!

If a child lacks curiosity and imagination, we know it's a problem serious enough to seek help. However, most parents shy away from educating their children about sex and hope they don't get curious and explore.

Educating your child about sex is extremely important. Truth is that sooner or later, with or without you; they will get educated. From their peers, siblings, the internet, movies, books, school, etc.

You want to be the first to lay the foundation for them so that they at least have a "superior" opinion they can choose from.

But you teach sex education in stages. You are not telling a 3 year old for instance about intercourse. You explain parts of their bodies and tell them the parts that are private and very personal and those which aren't.

You teach them to take good care of themselves and to tell you if anyone goes to their personal private parts. At this age you can be sure they mostly will tell you.

By the time they are a little older you do science at home. Parts of the body and what they do. What happens if they are not well taken care of. Start off with hygiene, then adding sex is just natural because sex at the wrong time is bad for the body with all the attendant consequences (STD, baby, abortion, shame, stress, etc).

By the time your child is 10, you should be reinforcing what you've been doing through the years.

Please don't wait for a time when everything is perfect before you talk about sex. You accord it too much importance in the child's eyes, which makes him/her suspicious that there could be more and want to find out.

Depending on your child's age, you walk into a shop and see a teenager breastfeeding a baby, that's your teaching moment for your 10 year old.

She comes back with homework on parts of the body, that's your opportunity. Tell them how the baby got there and the beauty of waiting for when they are ready. Answer his questions as honestly and frankly.

A coach can help too. When people you trust, value and care about are teaching the same principles, it serves as reinforcement for your child.