My point is, don't use adult thinking to guess children's world and understanding ability. Sex education for children should start from birth and run through growth, which is inseparable from moral education.

Children's curiosity

Children are curious and have too many strangers and incomprehensions about the world of newborns. They will ask a lot of "why" when they are very young, and they will also ask all kinds of questions in their daily life to help them understand the world. In fact, children's curiosity about sex is the same as their daily curiosity about the outside world.

Parents' attitude

If parents want to understand from their children's point of view, they can avoid many detours and avoid negative and evasive emotions when answering their children's questions about sex. Children are very sensitive. Through the observers and teachers, they will soon know which questions are "good" and which are "bad".

Parents' expressions

Once parents show reluctance and prevarication on sexual issues, or give their children an answer "Why do you ask such questions", "I told you you don't understand" and "Let's talk about it later", children will soon form a negative judgment that sexual issues are bad and shameful, and parents are ashamed to express or talk about them.

Children's problems

What parents can do is to treat their children equally. For younger children, parents don't have to explain some difficult emotional problems in depth. You can explain it to the simplest children in the same way as answering other daily questions.

Opportunities for sex education

Generally speaking, even if parents don't take the initiative to speak, children will take the initiative to ask questions related to sex when they are two or three years old, which is the best time to educate their children about sex. There are many topics about sex. For example, many families plan to have a second child. When the first-born baby is young, they will be curious about pregnancy. At this time, parents can tell them about pregnancy and childbirth.

Parental commitment

Be sure to remember your promise and explain it clearly to your child, because the child's memory is better than we thought and more persistent than us.

The content of sex education

In addition, it is very important that sex education is not limited to sex organs and sexual behavior, but also to teach children which parts of their bodies should not be shown to others and should not be touched by people other than their parents. These are all sex education.

Sooner rather than later

Generally speaking, sex education is one of the daily education to accompany children to grow up. Sooner than later.