The Family Planning Assocaition (FPA ) know that talking to your children about growing up, relationships and sex can be tough.
Some parents find it easy. But many mums and dads don’t. What should I tell them at this age? Will I know the answer? I’m embarrassed to talk about it. Worries can stop you from talking at all, or you answer a few questions but don’t know how to carry on.
Sound familiar? Then visit the FPA website (www.fpa.org.uk) who want to give parents and carers across the UK the confidence and information to talk to their children about the facts of life.
There is also a section on “cringe questions” an example of which follows:
“My eldest daughter (aged about seven) came home from school and asked me what formal sex education was. I gave her the full unexpurgated version of how we humans reproduce. After sitting patiently for at least half an hour she said, ‘I know all that, what does formal mean?’”The FPA have produced a video and leaflet to help talk to your teenagers about puberty, relationships, sex and everything else that goes with it!
