3 Psychologist's Tips for Talking to Teens About Sexuality

However, not everyone knows how to approach this delicate issue. In the program "Ranks with Ukraine", which is aired on weekdays at 6:29 on the TV channel "Ukraine", the psychologist gave advice on how to properly talk with teenagers about sex and what could be useful for this.

“The adolescent period is a difficult age, during which it is easy for parents to lose contact with their children and start to conflict. We need to talk about sex with teenagers, even if they behave rudely, ridicule their parents and are openly rude, ”says psychologist Natalya Podlesnaya in the program“ Ranok z Ukraine ”.

First advice: you should not talk to a teenager as you would to a child, but as if you were talking to your sister or brother. This tone and style of communication is more acceptable when talking about sex. Then you will have some boundaries that neither you nor he will cross, but at the same time gullibility and respect remains.

Tip two: talk about your teenage or adolescent sex life and your mistakes - it will cause trust and will provide an opportunity to talk about safe sex using the stories of your friends or your personal experience. The more humor and self-irony there is in your stories, the better. But it is better to talk about it systematically and in small doses, so as not to turn it into an evening of memories "about the life of dinosaurs."

Third tip: be sure to read more about sex yourself and think that teens have a lot more opportunities to learn about it from the Internet. At the same time, you should not have a goal to share all the knowledge, but the task should be to say the most important thing. After all, teenage sex life is full of mistakes and joy. Even if it's just thinking and planning sex and there is no practice. After all, teenagers have a lot of doubts about their sexuality and this is what you should talk to them about.

According to the psychologist, before such a conversation, 2 films should be reviewed - the series "Sex Education" and the film "Girls".

Watch the program "Ranok z Ukraine" on weekdays at 6:29 on the channel "Ukraine".