Using Those Teachable Moments to Start a Conversation about Sex with Your Children

Sex is all around us. It's not only on billboards, commercials, magazines and T.V. shows but staring us in the face in our own neighborhood everyday. Maybe you happen upon a neighbor who is pregnant, the T.V. show you're watching has a pregnant teenager on it, sex is eluted to on your favorite program, your child is reading a book that has a relationship in it that they tell you about or there is a particularly sexual billboard that you drive by. Consider these to be teachable moments. Use these teachable moments that come up in your everyday life to begin a conversation with your child about sex. I believe that using these as a jumping off place to begin "the talk" will lessen your anxiety about having a sit down, planned out conversation and by making this talk less formal you may just disarm your child enough to have an open and honest conversation.