“Mom, is B-O-O-B-S a bad word?
My son spelled out the word and asked.
\"Where did you hear it?
\"The Boy in the class has been talking about it. And about S-E-
\"X,\" he said in a low voice, with a horrible expression of joy on his face.
\"This is not the right word,\" I answered calmly, and my heart hammering jumped straight.
\"The scientific term for the chest is \'breasts, \'and all women have it.
The chest is not a bad word, but it makes the breast sound dirty when it is actually just a normal body part.
\"I haven\'t solved another word that my son mentioned yet, the larger S-E-X.
\"You know S-E-X is?
I didn\'t really want to know the answer when I asked him.
He shook his head and strongly opposed it.
\"Well,\" I said with confidence.
\"We will talk about this later.
It became two months later.
As a high school teacher, I firmly believe that education is the best defense against ignorance and that it is to help my son fight half the light --
The truth revolves around the game field.
I was scared as a mother.
How can I talk about sex with my kids? I’m a hijab-
Muslim women in South Asia.
Sex has never been talked about in my conservative family.
Also, the chest is something white women are worried about.
Desis took a sports bra and pretended nothing had happened.
Don\'t let me start when I come to menstruation.
So I asked Google for help.
I entered \"how to talk about sex with your child\" and received a lot of responses, most of which are useless, \"I found my teen watching porn \".
Then I went to the local library and found the resource gold.
The new speech about sex written by Canadian nurse Meg Hicklin is honest and interesting.
I swallowed it and read it to my husband.
In addition to the actual part of his conversation with our son, he supported me 100.
To find a backup, I ordered a few books with my kids --
What is the big secret?
\"Boy, Girl and Body Science\" by Laurie Krasni Brown and Mark Brown and Meg Hicklin.
Cartoon pictures are easier to see than my fiery face.
Book arrived in time (
Damn Amazon! )
But I still waited, took the courage, and was tortured by the problem.
Why is \"talking\" so hard?
Will he always remember this when his childhood is over?
How can I make this happen?
Seriously, what happened to his classmate?
Mom, I\'m paralyzed with guilt.
I finally did it one night.
\"I bought you a special book to answer the questions you asked me a while ago,\" I told him before going to bed.
I took a deep breath and started to read what is the big secret?
It starts with a cartoon of naked girls and boys, then a close one
Internal operation of the genitals.
He is fascinated.
\"Are there eggs in the girls? ” he asked.
Later, \"but where is the sperm?
\"After I explained the main incident, then there was a whole minute of shock silence --
What happens when you have sex
\"Do all the animals do this?
\"Yes,\" I said in pain.
\"Is there any other way to have children?
\"Well, I think some people have children in the lab. . .
I said, think of IVF.
\"Did you have sex with dad? ”Oh Allah. “Yes,” I said.
\"I never realized how warm your bedroom was!
\"Did I do it as usual, or did I do it in the lab?
\"The conventional way.
Another moment to deal with this problem.
My toes were cocked up in anticipation of his next problem.
\"Can I take this book to school and show it to my friends?
The book stayed at home, but the next night he asked if we could continue reading about \"physical science.
\"Of course,\" I said.
\"This may be a good time to talk about menstruation.