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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP who is the successful professional and had sex at 14.  I was not abused, quite the contrary, I was sheltered but had too much time on my hands looking back now.  My mother was a working professional too but she left the parenting to my grandmother and other female friends because she was always working.  I know not to make that mistake now.  I spend a lot of time with my kids.  I juggle a demanding legal job but manage to pick my kids up each day and make their sports games.  I don't want anyone else raising my kids or adults having too much access to my kids, which puts them at risk for abuse.  But, this is a digression from what I and the other PPs were asking.  What do you say to your kids at 10 and 11 so they are engaging in risky sexual activity at an early age?  How do you open the conversation?  There are lots of posters saying talk to your kids now but now giving advice on what to say.[/quote]

Tell them you love them and that you want them to have a happy future. Tell them to respect themselves and to turn to you for advice. Tell them that their peers may do things they are not ready for but that your kids don't have to do that. Tell to think about what they do and make careful choices that won't hurt themselves or others and that if they think, wait, plan for the future and turn to you (about not only sex and love but what they feel about friendships and dreams for their lives), they can achieve their dreams and have fun. Protect them form peers who would pressure them. Most of all, get acquainted with their friends and their parents so that you feel safe about the people in their lives. You can do it.[/quote]

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