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A Quick Guide to Talking with Kids about Sex
My five-year-old daughter and I sat in the Wal-Mart parking lot one weekend waiting for my husband to return. Suddenly out of nowhere, she asked, “Mommy, what does f— mean?” I consciously locked my jaw to keep it from falling to the floor mat and exuded a studied calm as I asked where she’d heard that word. She was at the neighbor’s. Her friend’s dad said it. “But what does it mean?” she insisted. Though her question arose from hearing profanity, not curiosity about sex, I realized the need to have “the sex talk” had arrived a few years earlier than expected. So, what in the world do we say when…