Here are ways to assure healthy, self-directed sexual ity in our children. Teach

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Here are ways to assure healthy, self-directed sexual ity in our children. Teaching our children what sex is really all about We can teach our children that sex is the ultimate expression of love between two souls. Make it clear to them that, in this way, sex is natural and beautiful. It's not about external, pass- ing factors like image, power, and control. We can also teach them that sex isn't a means of escaping boredom and that it doesn't represent a way to seek pleasure through the five bio- logical senses alone. Defending modesty Modesty should be defended as something that enlivens eroti- cism rather than suppresses it. We can encourage our children to retain their modesty because it can buy them the time they need to make wise internally directed choices about their sex- ual behavior. As their parents, we can encourage them to show modesty in both behavior and dress.

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The author through these paragraphs suggests how to develop a healthy attitude towards sex, one's own body and sexual behavior. The author suggests that children should be taught about the value and importance of sexual relationship, that it is not for somethinge to escape from the boredom or for mere thrill, but it is an expression of true love between the partners and should have that seriousness. The children should be made understand the seriousness of irresponsible sexual relationship by the consequences that it could bring. Parents should model their kids in a way that they develop healthy attitude towards sexual intimacy and be responsible for their sexual behavior and modelled to treat their behavior with respect.

The suggestions regarding developing a responsible sexual attitude and behavior are useful because it help the children to understand the consequences of such behavior. The other suggestions that are helpful are developing healthy sense of themselves, not giving much importance to the physical appearance but to the inner qualities. Discouraging children from having too much exposure to media contents that have high loads of sexual contents is also an important suggestion, and finally encouraging children by modeling them to see sexual behavior not as a thing to have fun but as an expression love between two life partners is also a good suggestion.

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