Brighterdays4you’s Weblog

This is a question that I get asked often.  Before the age of nine, my daughter didn’t really understand what I tried to tell her.  I said that dad planted a seed in me and that is how she came to be.  She tells me now that she thought that I ate a plant.  At the age of nine, she started asking me all kinds of questions about sex and I answered all of them truthfully while inside I’m thinking, “Gees, how embarrassing to tell her all this stuff and how far do I go?”  I gave her the truth because if I don’t, then she gets it from kids on the playground.  At this age she tells me that what she gets from them is a mixed bag of truth and fiction.  She also tells me that as a result of answering her questions truthfully, I am her best friend.  She knows that she can come to me for straight forward answers.  As a tween who is starting to evaluate my parenting, I am happy to know that she can trust me with her questions about sex.  As she grows older and boys, who by the way are already flocking around her, start making moves on her, she will come to me and ask about how far to go with sex and when to lose her virginity.  At 25 years old I hope!