{"id":1469,"date":"2014-06-19T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2016-07-21T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:11:36","slug":"talking-about-sexuality-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/talking-about-sexuality-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about sexuality to children!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many parents fear to talk about sexuality to their children because they find it a taboo. This is mainly due to the lack of sexuality education they didn\u2019t get during their childhood. Then, this issue is a big problem to both parents and children.<\/strong>-By Yves Didier Irakoze<\/em><\/p>\n

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R\u00e9novate Irambona: \u201cParents should discuss sexuality or exchange about it with their children in a very understanding way according to their age.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI feel shy to talk about sexuality and reproductive health conversation with my children,\u201d points out K.N. a 50- year old parent. Niyonzima G. on her side mentions that she is sometimes courageous to discuss sexuality with her daughters rather than her sons. However, she does exchange about sexuality with her daughters when they start their period of menstruation in order to avoid unwanted pregnancy. \u201cI actually confirm that even to give them some pieces of advice at this age, is not easy for me. I hardly find the right words or the right language to use because it\u2019s somehow shameful to me,\u201d says Niyonzima.
\nAccording to K. J. , speaking about sexuality with children is a task reserved to women because he can\u2019t take his time and dare engage discussions over sexuality with his children. Jean Fernand Niyonganji, aged 15 says that he never hears his parents talking about sexuality to him or in his family.
\nV. A. shares Jean Fernand\u2019s view that she never gets the opportunity to have talks about sexuality with her parents and even what she knows is the knowledge she got from her friends and fellows.<\/p>\n

Parents should adopt a new policy on sexuality issues<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to R\u00e9novate Irambona, PhD in Psychology, sexuality discussion between parents and children is somehow considered as a taboo in our culture. Parents feel very embarrassed to talk about sex. R\u00e9novate Irambona mentions that even when parents dare talk sexuality to their children, they use a kind of language that is not straightforward, clear and direct; they prefer to use proverbs or very confusing language that the youths cannot understand very easily. She also states that parents start talking sexuality to their children late. For her, their children are consequently found in a trap because their parents didn\u2019t tackle sexuality issues with them at their early age. In many cases children tend to be curious to know what their parents haven\u2019t talked to them. For instance, they go to seek information from people and on internets.<\/p>\n

\u201cParents should discuss sexuality or exchange about it with their children in a very understanding way according to their age,\u201d points out Irambona.
\nThen parents, she says, have to adopt a new style to dare talking sexuality to them. Parents should learn how to listen to their children and talk sexuality early. Parents also need to get some sessions on sexuality education for a good transmission to their children. Finally, she concludes that the government should set up appropriates on sexuality education to parents as children are getting theirs in schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many parents fear to talk about sexuality to their children because they find it a taboo. This is mainly due to the lack of sexuality education they didn\u2019t get during their childhood. Then, this issue is a big problem to both parents and children.-By Yves Didier Irakoze \u201cI feel shy to talk about sexuality and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[140,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}