I'm waking up another old thread that I find extremely interesting.
talking to your kids about sex, drugs, strangers in real life and online is so important.
I started talking to my kids about strangers as soon as they could walk. started talking to them about sex was at age 7. at age 9, i talked to them about puberty and drugs, I started to talking to them about that very early, as soon as they started school.
Those subjects were always open for discussion and always talked about in my home with my kids. I feel that i've done my job now the rest is up to them. I'm not naive, i know that they will experiment with drugs and alcohol and even sex but i would hope they've learned enough from me to not at least try the hard drugs and use protection for sex.
Krystal well, we know how she's turned out but kassandra is different. I think she'll be smart about it all and might not ever even try to smoke a joint but i'm not worried about it. smoking a joint here and there won't kill her. It's the crack, coke, ex, heroine, acid that really scare me and i don't think she'll go there.
I have friends that have kids that are kassandra's age and they still haven't had talks with them about sex and drugs. I think that's horrible! Kids need to be educated on these things and it has to start at home. it shows them that they can trust us enough to come to us for advice on these things. it's so important.