Due to own fears and education, it can happen that often parents and other caregivers avoid approaching sexual education. Also, when children themselves ask questions about intimacy or sex, adults are shocked and scared. How to react, what to answer to a five years old child? Sexual education is not all about using a condom [...]
Sexual education for children with special needs (part 1)
On February - 6 - 2012
Sex education is to guide and support a child in sexual development, and since a child with a physical disability or a chronic illness also is a child, it is fully entitled to have sexual education. Children with special needs even require additional attention. Acknowledge the sexuality of the child: Sometimes parents and even [...]
Children and sexuality
On January - 12 - 2012
Masturbation of toddlers and pre-schollers. Masturbation is rather common in young children. It should be considered a natural, normal behavior in children of all ages. Often it begins around the age of eighteen months. This masturbation peaks when children are between the ages of three and five. Then it declines in frequency until [...]
Summer: time to play outside
On June - 15 - 2011
What you can do to enhance your child’s safety These are some practical tips about what you as parent can do to make sure that you make the conditions in your family environment as good as possible. To prevent that your child comes into dangerous situations. Or that when on a moment you need to [...]
Encourage your child to be independent.
On May - 3 - 2011
The greatest security you can offer your child is to make him or her independent. By ensuring that he or she can recognize what is dangerous and to enable to make their own choices. And the main way to do so is: expect a lot from your child. If you raise your child in a [...]
