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[quote=Anonymous]The sex talk starts with proper names for their body parts. Then proper names for body parts for the opposite gender. Sooner or later they'll ask where babies come from or some variation of that and you can explain honestly. If you lived on a farm you'd be explaining things early enough. Knowledge never hurt anyone.

Drugs can start with the good things go into our body and bad things stay out talk. It gets lumped into healthy eating talks for us. At some point they'll have to take medicine and that's a good time to talk about only taking medicine a doctor tells you to take, and you only take it from Mommy or Daddy or whomever you approve. You can talk about how too much medicine is bad for you. Then when they're able to understand that you can talk about how one of the ways medicine or drugs can be bad for you is that it makes your body or your mind think you need it to survive, and people make bad choices when they become addicted. Then you can talk about addictions to drugs, sugar, tv, video games, whatever.

I lead a Girl Scout troop and the girls all knew about the evils of smoking during kindergarten. They were very anti tobacco. They loved doing service projects related to helping people stop smoking. When cvs stopped selling tobacco products it was announced on a meeting day. They came to the meeting so excited, and wrote a letter to Walgreens asking them to do the same. I think this kind of awareness and activism comes from parents being open and honest early instead of waiting until kids are "old enough" to be faced with these topics in their own lives.

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