2 Minute Sex Education Primer For Parents of Young Children

"Lets wash your head. Now behind your ears! Oh look at these feet! That is your penis. That is your scrotum. Inside of it are two little balls called testicles!" (A simple every day conversation in an every day situation- giving your kid a bath.)

Lets practice saying these words. Maybe if you practice enough you won't blush every time you give your child the appripriate label for his or her body parts:

buttock
anus
penis
scrotum
testicles
breasts
nipple
vulva (yes, lets not mislabel this and call it a vagina, its not the same thing.)
vagina
clitoris

What better way to get over your own awkwardness and fear of saying these words then in saying them to your young child, in every day life opportunities. 

"Look- that lady is going to have a baby! Her baby is growing in a special place called her uterus. You would think its growing in her stomach, but its not!"

"Mom- what is that lady doing to that baby?" "She is breastfeeding. She is feeding milk from her breasts to her baby. You know how some moms feed milk in a bottle to their babies? That mom is feeding her milk to her baby."

There. Is that really so hard?

Practice that. Then take it a step forward when ready child is ready:
-explain that the testicles make things called sperm
-explain that the baby will have to go through something kind of like a door called a cervix to get out of the uterus and through the mom's vagina into the world.
-etc, etc,

Do you want to be able to educate your child when he\she is about to hit puberty about the changes that are coming? Do you want to educate your children about sex? Your daughter about her looming menstrual cycle and fertility? Or would you rather the public school teach him? Or her friends teach her? How will you be able to talk to your sons and your daughters about sex, pregnancies, periods, breasts, pubic hair, etc, if you can't even label and name body parts when he or she is a toddler or preschooler? When you can't even explain normal, human body functions when they are in kindergarten?

It really is not that hard to start. Start now, when your kids are young, instead of starting when the stakes are higher, and the questions more challenging.

(Now if anyone has a good way for me to explain the pornography store located right next to our local post office, please share because I know that question is coming soon.)