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Sex and relationships

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Children and young people are learning about sex and relationships from soaps, magazines, adverts and their friends. The media is full of confusing messages about sex – it can seem like everyone is doing it all the time.

Talking with their parents helps young people to:

  • Be safer
  • Feel less anxious
  • Make up their own minds.

It also gives them the confidence to talk to future partners about their relationship, sex and contraception.

Making time to talk shows you are there to support your children – sons and daughters – as they grow up. It does not mean that you are encouraging your children to have sex.

All the facts show that if you talk openly about sex, young people delay having sex and are more likely to use contraception.

They need and want their family to help them to:
  • Sort out fact from fiction
  • Understand what is happening to their bodies
  • Talk about their feelings and their relationships
  • They want to hear your opinions and what you believe in.

Videos


Talking teenage sex

Not sure how to start that tricky conversation about safe sex? Watch Suzie Hayman discuss how you can open up communication with your teen and tackle that often dreaded talk with ease.



Talking relationships

What do you do when your teen says they want their boyfriend/girlfriend over to stay? Don't know how you would handle the situation? Watch Suzie talk through how you can approach the subject without breaking into an argument.



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1. On 10 March 2009 10:04, grumpygoat wrote:

We were at MY mums watching a film, a love scene came on,sighs from girls 14/12 I said 3 generations were watching. My mum 75 years young, then gave a lovely chat about sex and love being special- it was a great moment she would never have done that years ago and they were listening !!

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