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Originally Posted by the_lissa
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I taught my daughter what all her parts are after she turned 3, and I made sure to tell her about her clitoris. |
I'm pregnant so my 3 year old is of course very curious. She likes to look at my copy of Sheila Kissinger's Complete Pregnancy Book. What's one of her favorite pictures? The drawing on a woman's genitals. We talk about what all the parts are and what for. I have to admit I skipped the clitoris (maybe because nobody ever explained it to me?). She was checking herself out in the mirror one day and pointing out all of the parts to me. Then she pointed to her clitoris and asked about it. I named it. She asked "what's it for?" All I could think to say was "for feeling good." She smiled at me in a funny way and that was that.
I certainly feel that at the very least a 3 year old has the absolute right to know anything they want to about their own body and how it works. I'm still feeling my way through the opposite gender and sex. I admit I defer to DH some direct questions about boys (not that there have been to many, at this stage I just want him to know that I expect him to field some of these questions
).Sex education is tough. I fully believe that a child's questions should lead/guide the discussion. But DD has gotten the idea that kissing=sex so I've had to follow in the lead a little on this one. Thank goodness for the 1 page of drawings (not explicit) about lovemaking positions in the pregnancy book. I've been able to point point out to DD that "that" is sex. She's good with that so far. She really could care less about sperm and where it comes from much less where it goes and how it gets there. (But she loves the idea that she has eggs!)
i just told her it wasn't a bugbite it was part of her.
we would watch each other pee because that's what we thought sex was (we couldn't imagine what else we would do with those body parts) we were the same age, it was consensual and i am pretty sure we didn't touch each other. my parents were completely uncomfortable with the subject and we NEVER had the talk ever. in retrospect i am glad i wasn't stopped from that play because it was innocent, stopping it would have made it seem bad, but i do wish they had explained it to me and at that age they wouldn't have needed to be embarrased because it didn't make sense then. i can understand being more embassed explaining to a teen.
