Tonight, I had the first ever conversation about sex with my seven year old son.  I'm not sure that you could even call it a conversation since it was mostly one sided with me doing most of the talking stuttering and blurting out some partly incoherent explanations.  You would think that I would know how to talk about sex with my own son.  After all, I have worked with hormonal teenagers for over the past ten years and am not really intimidated by anything at this point.  I can tell you, though, it is a totally different ballgame when you are talking to your own baby about such a serious topic.     What prompted me to have this conversation with him, you ask?  The truth is that television these days throws the word "sex" around on practically every show.  Lately, I have noticed that even some our favorite sitcoms use the word from time to time.  It bothered me that he would hear the word often and possibly come to his own incorrect conclusions about its meaning.  … [Read more...]