sex education

Every parent—gay, straight, or in between—struggles with how and when to teach their children the technical points of human growth and development. You are advised to lay the groundwork early. Use the scientific vocabulary of sex education before your children know what anything means. Fling words like penis, testicles, vagina, ovary, and uterus at your one-year-olds with reckless abandon. They won’t understand what you mean, and it gives you the opportunity to desensitive yourself to words you never imagined you’d have to use with someone so young.