Sexual education of children: the psychologist advised on how best to start a conversation about it

2017-09-26 18:30

Sexual education of children: the psychologist advised on how best to start a conversation about it
This education plays an important role in a later age.

Sexual education of children is an important part of children’s upbringing in family and school, as well as a way to establish trust, reports Rus.Media.

How to start a conversation on an uncomfortable topic, said child and family psychologist Oksana Sashenka.

According to her, the issue of sex education requires more thorough attention. “The topic of sex we taburova. We, as parents, it would be good to introduce sex education in the lives of our children, so they grew more uninhibited and more knowledgeable in this area,” she says.

The expert notes that to start talking about this when there is a readiness in children and parents.”

She adds that children’s readiness starts when children begin to talk. “And how we parents relate to these issues and what level of rest to give the answers to them depends on how the child will perceive the subject,” she adds.

Sachenko, says that the younger the child, the less information he needs to know and the less amount of information it will be enough to satisfy your interest.

“If he is under 4, then it can satisfy the answer that the child came from a great love of parents. If he asks further, then we must replace the concept and tell about the store, cabbage and ASTA because the truth would ever come and it would be better if it will sound from the lips of parents,” says the psychologist.

Already at a later age raises questions of gender identity, when “a girl knows she’s a girl, and the boy realizes he is a boy.” Here, questions arise about the difference of boys and girls. “It is very important to give information to children on the basis of their adequacy. The incorrect phrases will not satisfy his interest and he will find another way to learn it,” she adds.

The specialist also warns that if you do not give the right information in time, in adolescence, he has erased all boundaries and it feels very adult and independent.

“The suppressed interest in the child will strenuously to satisfy in different ways, not always social,” she says.

In her opinion, the conversation needs to be emotionally easy for children and adults. “It should begin looking into his eyes, relaxed and calm to share information in child”, – the expert adds.