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Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Bec Zajac for Life Matters

Cory Silverberg and Vanessa Hamilton on how parents can have better conversations with their kids about sex

Cory Silverberg says it's likely none of us, growing up, received the sex education we deserved. (Illustration by Fiona Smyth, from Cory Silverberg's Sex Is A Funny Word)

If the only sex education a parent has to draw on involves obscure euphemisms and maybe a condom and a banana, they can hit a big road block when it comes to teaching their kids.

It can leave parents feeling insufficient — if not utterly terrified. Perhaps they'll say too much or not enough, get weird and awkward, or stumble over naming body parts.

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