Today we’re talking about sexual education and how to normalize these conversations with your children. We want to share our own experiences that we’ve had with our parents and other family members that have worked and also what things have not worked. Jenna’s parents took their kids on father-son and mother-daughter camping trips where they had sex talks and discussed sex education. Brittney’s mom had open dialogue about having a period and shared her own experiences with her when she began to go through it at a young age, which opened her up to feeling comfortable discussing those topics in the future.

Jenna’s experience 0:35
Brittney’s experience 3:36
A study on parents’ abilities to discuss sex 7:21
A team effort between parents 11:46
Helping you have this conversation with your kids 16:53

“Research shows that children really benefit from talking, learning about these topics at younger ages, and preparing them through the developmental aspects of life. You can start having these conversations with children when they’re as young as 2. Just talking to them about their body and how it’s growing, how amazing it is and kind of building upon those moments to prepare them so that when they are around 12 or 14 years old, they have a solid basis on the topics, but also they’re just comfortable talking about it.” 8:01