Planned Parenthood Video Helps Parents Have 'The Talk' With Their Kids

A stork. The cabbage patch. That thing the birds do with the bees. There's a reason why parents turn to euphemisms when faced with the inevitable "Where do babies come from?" question. Except sometimes there are other harder-to-answer questions: "Can you get pregnant the first time you have sex?" and "How do you know if you're gay?", just to name a couple. Whether your child is two or 12, these conversations about S-E-X are bound to be awkward. (One of our editors found herself in a drawn out, back-and-forth with her son about the uses of ... tampons.)

A new video released by Planned Parenthood finds the funny in the subject. Beginning with the ominous warning, "In every parent's life this moment will arrive ..." it quickly cuts to a montage of adorable children asking uncomfortable questions about gender, sexuality and their bodies -- as well as some true-to-life looks of shock on the faces of their fictional parents.

"Check Wikipedia.com," one mom tells her curious daughter.

Avoiding the subject isn't uncommon at all. Although 82 percent of parents are having some sort of sex talk with their kids, many caregivers aren't touching on more complicated topics, such as consent and birth control. A 2009 study found that 40 percent of adolescents had sex before discussing the subject with their parents.

It's all pretty cute and worth watching for a laugh. But, we love this video for its ending. Instead of just giving viewers the always-enjoyable Hilarious Kids Being Hilarious, we also get practical -- and dare we say life-saving? -- dos and don'ts for having "the talk." And P.S. -- just because you learn something doesn't mean you shouldn't click play. Do it now. Then thank us.

Comments

[Kathleen Gilbert]

02:34 PM on 10/24/2011

This article is just odd. The video is poor quality, both visually and content-wise, and the puff piece that follows feels like it was written by a Planned Parenthood bot. Somehow I doubt anyone at HuffPo was actually impressed with this "hilarious" video.

[dbishop76]

12:51 PM on 10/24/2011

Above all else, please remember that talking to your children about sex does not make them do it. We do not have the same fear about talking to our kids about drugs....

Start early and talk often.

[lifehaspurpose8]

01:12 AM on 10/23/2011

Why does this article have no author? I like transparency in writing.

[beeholy]

11:35 PM on 10/22/2011

PP is trying to boost their failing image after all the scandles they are involved in. Parents do not need their help at all.

[NVE]

09:37 PM on 10/21/2011

Why do these questions have to seem awkward? I am conservative and I have #6 on the way...my eight year old asked one of those questions to my husband and it was no sweat. My husband was a male as was my 8 year old, my husband took care to answer truthfully and the next subject was brought up. My 6 year old daughter had the "How do babies come out of the belly" question and we gave the truthful answer...she didn't bat an eye lash and neither did I...why does it have to be difficult? Our only request of our question asker is, please wait until younger kids are not around when we ask you to...this way we don't bring a topic up in front of a child that isn't ready to handle the info given. At the next best moment we cover the question and move on.

[BigWillyG]

06:26 PM on 10/21/2011

Is it just me or does the dude in the video look like Moby?