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Sep 3 2008 - 8:00am Audiences fell in love with
Juno, pact or no pact, the girls of Gloucester High School made national headlines and Jamie Lynn Spears left her Nickelodeon stage to set up a nursery — it's been a big year for
teenage pregnancy. And, perhaps the finale of it all is the recent announcement that
Bristol Palin is expecting. Did you, or would you, use any of these instances to initiate a conversation with your kids about sex or teenage pregnancy?
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Do You Talk to Your Kids About Teenage Pregnancy?
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I'd use myself as an example, I don't need anything else, I was a teenage mommy.
1i too would use my own experience but not yet my daughter is only 8 but in a few years i will but the way society is right now it will be sooner than later
2I also am an example. Please can we stop talking about Bristol Palin. I don't even know who the heck she is.
3Why do you need to wait for something like this to happen to broach the subject with your child? While it may be a useful spring-board, I think you should start talking to your children about it as soon as they are ready.
4They are only four, but when the they are ready I will them about everything and all of their chooses.
5I've been talking to my son about sex ed since he was 10 or so.
6My oldest son is very open with me and we have talked about sex plenty of time. The best tools are his 4 and 5 year old little brothers! I always ask him imagine if they were yours! He says no and I say then be careful about what you do out there!
7Im a teen mom and my son is only 22 months old but i would hope him and my other kids (when i have them) learn from me.
8I would absolutely talk to my son about teen pregnancy and how he should be careful, but only when I think he's ready. I think I have quite some time though.
9when the time comes...my kids will get a earfull from me...language and all...no censors....i'll lay it out...this is what happens if you do this...or this is what happens if you do that. i'm not gonna be all buddy, buddy with them but i will be frank.
10I don't have children, but I remember my Mom talking to me about sex since I was six years old. Granted, I was a precocious child, and I was considered "gifted." Truthfully, I'm glad she did. I decided from an early age to be abstinate until I was personally mature enough to have sex (and handle all it's consequences).
11I'm ready when the time comes for this.
12This is the perfect opportunity to talk to my teenage daughters about this as it illustrates very clearly what happens in families where they don't have frank discussions about the consequences of unprotected sex.
13My parents did not talk to me about sex. I wish they had.
I hope more parents do because clearly the kids aren't learning much in school these days. Teen pregnancy is on the rise for the first time in what, 15 years???
SO TALK TALK TALK to your kids. I tried talking to mine but seeing as I'm only 5 months pregnant with my first kid, the baby didn't seem to quite get it
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