Discussing Pregnancy With Your Teen Washington DC

1. Start young. Begin talking to your children about sex long before they become sexually active. Very young children need to be given accurate information about their body parts and as they grow, they need to know that all of their questions will be answered. Children quickly sense if certain topics are "off limits," and will soon stop asking questions. Although this may be more comfortable for some parents, it begins a dangerous pattern of distancing parents and children in terms of open communication. Try your best to overcome your personal reservations when it comes to talking to your kids about sex: An uninformed child is at an increased risk of becoming a teenage parent.
   
   
2. Put yourself in their shoes. Teenagers, by their very nature, tend to resent parental interference. It is often easier to approach difficult subjects like sexuality by using outside examples as starting points for conversations. When watching a movie that features a pregnant teenager, take the opportunity to discuss the difficulties that the character faces. If your family knows someone who was a teenage parent, talk about the choices that she had to make and the consequences she endured by becoming a parent before she was grown. Since teenagers are very unlikely to be comfortable discussing their own sexuality with you (and they most certainly do not want or need details about your sex life), it can be helpful to cite outside examples to get a conversation started.
   
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Author: Elizabeth Grace