When to start sex education?

[sirrahbed]

I am a "seasoned" mom and I could not possibly answer it any better than the two younger women ahead of me That is exactly how I did it and it seemed to work. No silly names for body parts. No hushed tones when we talked about sex and we talked about just about everything as casually as can be. The biggest problem I ran into was the "dirtiness and shame" that my kids ran into when they hit the public schools. They never learned that at our house. Maybe the wrong words - but the attitude that sex is something to be tossed around as a shocking thing

When toddler/babies learn their body parts - they need to learn the correct words. Boys obviously have a penis. Girls have a vagina but I don't think that is the correct term to learn. They can't SEE their vagina. Maybe genitals, pubis, or vulva would be better?

Funny story when one of my little boys went in for a physical. The doctor sais he needed to check his "peepee" - my son looked at him quizically and answered "you mean my PENIS?"