Talking about intimate health {£50 Amazon voucher giveaway}

I love my children but the one conversation I’m not looking forward to is any of the grown up ones! Both my children are inquisitive little people and I like and encourage that. I always tell them there’s no such thing as a silly question and if I don’t know the answer I can help them find it.

However I know that soon my children will enter the period known as the ‘tween’ years, those troublesome pre-teenager years. I know that I will need to be able to equip them with everything they need to know to navigate those awkward years. The trouble is that *I* still find it a bit embarrassing to talk about certain stuff, so I’m sure sure how the heck I’m supposed to deal with them and the questions I know they will ask.

Growing kids need to know that it’s okay to talk about body changes, how they’re feeling and anything that may trouble or upset them. Canesten know the importance of normalising conversation about intimate health and common intimate conditions like thrush, cystitis and BV, between mothers and their daughters. Promoting female intimate health through better knowledge means women can self-diagnose and self-treat knowledgeably and with confidence.

I remember being given a book about growing up when I was a tween. It was a silly book because instead of using real pictures of real people, it used made up pictures which didn’t make any sense. I remember taking it into school and my friends being equally confused by periods, body changes and babies and all those grown up things. I think it’s so much better to have someone to talk to than be expected to get the information from a book.

I obviously have a few years to think about how I’m going to approach these conversations with my own children. There’s nothing worse than being clueless and I know that if my children have some knowledge of what happens when they are growing up then they will so much better equipped to deal with these changes. I don’t want them to be scared or unable to talk about their worries. I hope they will always be able to talk to me, just as I was able talk to my own mum.

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