# The birds and the bees, teaching kids about sex

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**Created:** [January 24, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-birds-and-the-bees-teaching-kids-about-sex/778009 "2017-01-24T03:29:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-birds-and-the-bees-teaching-kids-about-sex/778009/16 "2017-01-24T19:54:24Z")

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> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#):
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> If you have been relaxed about sexuality and given age-appropriate answers all along, by the time they get to be teenagers, you can actually have very open and detailed conversations with them.

This does depend on the kid. My daughter will bring up anything with me or her father. And she’ll answer questions. Open and honest communication all the time.

My son is not the great communicator and anything to do with sex and his parents makes him squicky - even though we’ve been open all along, these discussions are far outside his comfort zone.

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