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I would like to ask you what topics you find to be the most difficult (or will be the most difficult when the time comes) to discuss with your children and why you find them difficult to discuss.  The rest of this week and part of next week, this will be the discussion, so please participate by leaving comments or emailing me at ksbimagine @ yahoo dot com. 

There are many topics which should be discussed in the home before children go into the world (literally and figuratively) and see some of the filth and low morals which have invaded and become commonplace within our country.

Most parents dread “the talk” with their kids and seem to avoid it.  My oldest daughter, who will be four in December, has already asked me how people get pregnant.  At the time it only startled me for a second before I realized it was a completely natural question for her to ask.  I’d recently had a baby and she was curious.  She knew the baby had been inside me and wanted to know how her baby sister had gotten inside me in the first place.  I decided a three year old didn’t need to know specifics (or anything about it, really) and at the time she asked I was busy so I told her to ask me again later.  Knowing her, she will ask and it won’t be long before she does.  At that time I will probably give her accurate, but slightly vague information and as she gets older we’ll talk about it more with more specifics.

We have already talked with our children about the dangers of smoking and alcohol.  Both of my children know the dangers of smoking and they are aware that alcohol is not good for their bodies, although they probably don’t understand the specifics of it yet.  My daughter is always asking me why people would put such things into their bodies.  “Why is that lady smoking?  Does she know it will make her head black?”  My daughter is also aware of the negative consequences, for example the killing of the nervous system, of coffee and tea.   My daughter will ask why there are commercials for such things and why people drink them if they are so harmful to our bodies.

While we don’t have a date set to talk about the dangers of drugs, legal and illegal, I know it will come up soon.  One of the current problems in society is the abuse of prescription drugs by teenagers and young adults.  I couldn’t believe it when I first heard it.  I hated taking medicine as a kid and I certainly never would have thought to raid my parents’ or grandparents’ medicine cabinets.  To this day I would rather deal with a headache than take an aspirin. 

Tomorrow I will be back with more topics of discussion and later I will get to ways in which we can bring up these topics with our children. Don’t forget to leave me a comment or email me with your thoughts and requests.

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