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"The talk"
Is there any places where you can send your child to have "the talk"? She is homeschooled so she cant go to a class at school or somthing.
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This is indeed you job and duty not to shirk. If you leave it up to educators or other people your child will never know your values. They'll definitely think it's wrong to discuss it or have sexual thoughts or be able to ask questions about things they're experiencing.
No parent enjoys having to have this talk but there are things that make it easier. I would suggest you purchase 1 copy each of What's Happening to My Body? For Girls and What's Happening To My Body for Boys? both are written by Lynda Madaras.
Ask her to read both on her own time and come back with any questions. It has everything she will need to know it from puberty, menstruation, sex, feelings, etc. etc.
The best thing to do is get her these two books and 1 or 2 others. Let her read them and lead her own discussion with you later on.
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Giving your child 'the talk' is meant to be your job, it will be much more comfortable for them to hear about this stuff from their parent rather than from a complete stranger. I wouldn't advise foisting off this responsibility to someone else, for your childs sake.
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Kasper
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since when was this supposed to be somebody else's job? contrary to popular belief, schools shouldn't be poking their damn heads into the matter aside from the general mechanics. go be a parent.
-Gunner.
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The mere fact that you're trying to shuffle this parental responsibility off somewhere else bodes very badly for your kid.
Especially with a homeschooled kid, they're going to be looking at you as their example for everything, and if your attitudes or discomfort towards sex comes out to them, they're going to eat it, digest it, and imitate it in their adult life, likely hurting their ability to maintain intimacy down the road.
Bite the bullet, get a few reference materials, and teach your kids the ins and outs (no pun intended) of sex.
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Im sure there is something out there that does what you are looking for but it is so much more meaningfull to have the parents do it. It seems more real and more important to the child to hear it from their parent rather than some stranger. This is something that should be taken seriously and it may not be if you just send your child off to someone else to do it.
I dont know if you are asking this question because you are looking for someone else to have "the talk" with your child, but if you are you should really just man up and do it yourself. It is better for the child and if you are responsible and mature enough to have a child then you should be responsible and mature enough to talk to your child about sex.
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I'm sure you could take him/her to a doctor/gynecologist to talk to her about this. But I definitely think you should talk to him/her. As the person below me said, as I was first discovering sexuality, I would much rather my parents talk to me about it then a doctor that I don't know. My parents never even started to go into the sex talk with me, so everything I learned about it was from people my age or a few years older. If my parents had talked to me about it when I was younger, I would have been much more informed and less naive. I probably would have made better decisions in my sexual awakening as well. It's good that you're wanting your child to get the talk. But it should come from you. It makes it more personal and believable when it's coming from someone you know/look up to.
Hope this helps :D
-Darby
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I'm not sure, but perhaps researching it online. You may find something. If it were me, I'd want the talk to come from my parents. It just seems more loving. It's embarassing, but at least you know they care. I mean I knew about that kind of stuff on my own, but my parents hit every other little detail back then.
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