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When the time comes to talk about teen sexuality many parents find it hard to talk to their kids and try to avoid the subject. Sex however is a natural and key part of most people’s lives and as teenagers mature they will become more and more curious about the subject of sex and their own sexuality.

This can however also be a risky area these days and one which can easily lead to both health and emotional problems for our teenagers and nearly all parents are obviously concerned about things like teenage pregnancy and the odds of picking up a range of sexually transmitted diseases including aids.

Many parents try to ignore the subject of sex and insist that this is one topic which should be taught under the heading of health or sex education in school and, although schools do have a significant role to play, this cannot free you as a parent from your own overarching responsibility for instructing your children about sex.

The subject of sex is exciting to kids and they are going to be only too eager to explore it, but it is important that they get advice on the subject from someone they trust and there should be nobody they trust more than their parents. Also, sex has conventionally been something of a taboo subject and still carries many of the Victorian attitudes of being something that is sinful and unclean. Accordingly, if you fail to talk about sex openly as a family and set in into its proper framework for your kids then you are simply reinforcing the view that sex is bad.

Puberty is a time when kids are naturally going to investigate their own bodies and are also going to be curious about other people’s bodies, but it is a time too when they normally feel that they are doing somehow wrong or something which they should be feeling guilty about.

It is critically important therefore that when parenting teens you step in at this point and provide the answers for the string of questions that will be popping into your child’s head. Now is the time when you have to talk openly about sex and the role that sex plays in the context of a relationship.

There are of course many different issues surrounding the subject of teen sexuality which is about a great deal more than simply sex itself. Now is the time therefore when teenagers need to learn about not simply the dangers of unprotected sex but the far wider subject of teen relationship advice and the emotional ups and downs that can come with relationships. Crucially, it is a time when they have to see their sexuality as a normal part of growing up and something which is openly understood and accepted within their own family.