Children also learn a great deal about intimacy from watching their parents. How you treat your wife or partner will be a model for how your son should treat girls and, later, women. Learning about sex is really learning about sex roles, about communication, about love. What you model will have a much greater impact on your son than what you say, so remember that you are always teaching – when you are hollering at one another as well as when you are holding hands. In this culture, we worry about children seeing their parents being physically affectionate with one another, but there is nothing wrong with children witnessing these expressions of love. In fact, there may be a problem with them not witnessing it. Its absence not only leaves children often wondering whether their parents love each other but also leaves them without models of how to express affection to their own partners. Modeling a healthy loving relationship with your partner is the second thing you can do for your son – not to mention for your partner and yourself.
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