3 tips from a psychologist on how to talk with teenagers about sexual relationships

However, not everyone knows how to approach this delicate issue. In the program "Wound with Ukraine", which airs on weekdays at 6:29 am on the TV channel "Ukraine", the psychologist gave advice on how to properly talk with teenagers about sex and what might come in handy for this.

“Adolescence is a difficult age, during which it is easy for parents to lose contact with their children, start to conflict. You have to talk about sex with teenagers, even if they behave rudely, make fun of their parents and are openly rude,” says psychologist Natalya Podlesnaya in the program “Wound with Ukraine”.

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

Tip two: talk about your teenage or youthful sex life, as well as your mistakes - this will cause trust and will give you the opportunity to talk about safe sex using the stories of your friends or your personal experience. The more humor and self-irony 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 teenagers have a much better opportunity to learn about it from the Internet. At the same time, you should not have a goal to share all, all 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 is only 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 pictures should be reviewed - the series "Sex Education" and the film "Girls".

Watch the program "Wound with Ukraine" on weekdays at 6:29 on the channel "Ukraine".