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Discussing sex issues with your teenage children may be embarrassing both for you and for the teenager as well. However, you should not feel embarrassed just because of this topic. You as a parent of teenager should realize that teenage years are the years that people can make many troubles and many problems for themselves. The teenager often does not think about the consequences about this or that affair, and they just live for a moment. However, sometimes teenager faces very harsh consequences. I am sure that no parent would like their teenager child face a problem of teenage parenthood that is the reason why you have to discuss the sex topics with your teenage children.
At first you really have to break the stereotype in you that teenagers and parents do not talk about such issues and topics. In order to be able to talk to your children about sex you have to be close enough. For that you have to talk about guys and girls from very young age and discuss the relations between men and women.
Once your child becomes teenager you should start discussing the relations between men and women even deeper. If you are already good friends with the teen child and you already have discussed enough of men and women relations, then you should definitely be able to face the barrier and talk about sex as well. Talking about sex will prevent many troubles for your child.
First of all, talking about sex to your child will definitely help you own relations and will make you much closer. Not every parent discusses sex topics with their children. So doing that may feel a little bit embarrassing at first, but then you will understand that you became much closer.
You will also remember that you do it for the sake of your own child. Just imagine if you do not discuss sex and if you do not describe all the consequences of unsafe and unprotected sex, your child may face a teenage parenthood. Of course as a parent, you do not want your child face this kind of problem. That is the reason why you should really preciously and deeply explain all the consequences of unprotected sex. You should explain how fatal the consequences of unhealthy and unprotected sex can be. So you should definitely talk about the condom and how to use it. Do not be afraid to go into details. This is really necessary to do.
Besides this, I think that men should discuss the sex with their teenage sons, while moms should discuss this with daughters. The topic is itself very embarrassing, and if the dad discusses it with the daughter, then she may feel uncomfortable. Important thing here is that you should not discuss things from your personal experience. This may be a little bit shocking for the child. You have to explain all the things but in general. Do not make examples from your personal life.
Unfortunately not many parents discuss sex topics and issues with their teenage children. They say that it’s embarrassing and shameful. However, this is very fallible. When you talk to the child about sex, you do not do anything bad or you do not spoil the child. Just the opposite, you try to educate your child on that topic as well and make the child be informed, because having precious information is very useful. So just never hesitate about the question, whether to talk about these things to your child or not. You have to talk and discuss all just for the sake of the child. However, as we have already said do not make examples from your own life, but stay more focused in general and just to give some tips. Besides you should also tell the child to be careful with the choice of partner as well, because that is also really important.
Being educated about sex and being informed can be really beneficial and can prevent many life changing and fatal mistakes. So this is the main reason why you should teach your teenage son or daughter how to keep a healthy sexual life and discuss these topics.
