Thursday, February 28, 2008

Week Six!!!

(a.) Go to the following website and check out the information on talking about sex with your kids. How does the advice given on this website compare to how you learned about sex?? How does the way that a person talks about sex to her/his children communicate attitudes about sex?? How does it communicate attitudes about sex in the culture??
I believe the technique only works for some families. My family was very open about the subject. We would all sit around the dinner table during dinner and talk about it all the time. It felt as if it became a ritual. That may be the reason why my brother, sister, and I never brought or boyfriends or girlfriends around. The friends we did bring over for dinner we had to warn them to make sure that they felt comfortable about the matter.
It depends on how they feel about sex and how clear the parent makes it. Such as if a parent is calm and rational but as soon as the child asks a question about sex they flip out the child may become scared to talk to there parents about it. But if a parent does not speak to there child about sex at all maybe there child grows up and does not think anything is wrong or anything will happen if they have sex. There are many ways to look at it. Different cultures and religions have different feelings about sex. Some cultures and religions do not think it is moral to have sex until they are married or have sex at all. Everyone learns about sex a different way. Everyone teaches sex a different way as well. Techniques of the matter are a persons choice and they should choose how to confront the issue before, during, and after, just to check and make sure nothing bad has happened to there child.

2 comments:

Amanda Ridgway said...

Thats funny! I can't imagine sitting at a table and talking about sex with my family! Isn't it funny how different families are?

Karina said...

that is quite funny! I suppose all that matters is that you're communication, even if it is all the time. I can't even imagine how weird that would be to sit at the dinner table with my psuedo-sophisticate, ultra conservative, father and discuss sex. I should try it sometime just to through him for a loop!