Not our natural territory on this blog, but given the interest in helping parents to be prepared for conversations about tricky subjects like sex, alcohol, and drugs I thought this report from Reuters may be of interest to readers:
Parents should consider having repeated discussions with their children about many aspects of sex instead of one “big talk” on impersonal topics linked to sexuality such as puberty, researchers said on Monday.
“Parents who take a checklist approach to broadening their sexual discussion with their children are unlikely to have as great an influence as parents who introduce new sexual topics and then develop them through repeated discussions,” said their report published in the journal Pediatrics.
The study, entitled “Beyond the ‘Big Talk’,” used written surveys given to 312 children in Southern California aged 11 to 15 to assess how frequent and candid their conversations were with their parents about sex.
The more parents talked with their children, the closer their relationships, wrote researchers Steven Martino and colleagues at the Rand Corporation.
You can read the whole paper here.
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