Nikol Hasler and the Midwest Teen Sex Show

Nikol Hasler's Midwest Teen Sex Show is attracting a great deal of attention. Midwestern Teen Sex Show is a podcast that is boasting 65000 subscribers and is ranked in iTunes top ten health podcasts. The show uses humor to dispense much needed information to its target audience of teens and their parents. Humor can be a wonderful tool to open the door to frank and open discussion between parents and child.

What Hasler and creator Guy Clark have done is provide a forum for kids to ask all those embarrassing questions and maybe get them answered in a way that will render real information in a way that will lighten the subject up just a little bit. Hasler is the product of a teen pregnancy and found herself pregnant before her freshman year in college. It is this level of experience that contributes to her passion for her subject and unique approach to the education of young people about sex.

I have found that the biggest obstacle to discussing sex with your kids is the level of embarrassment the subject matter provokes in teens. It is important that they can get past the embarrassment long enough to ask the questions they have about sex.

And doesn't everyone at that age have a million questions about sex? Children will tend to test the waters with their parents by using certain words and subjects. Gauging their parents reactions they will either know they can discuss sex with mom and dad or the subject should not come up again. That is why your reaction must be controlled. Remember you want them talking to you.

With my children I discussed the issue of sex with a rather casual manner. While sex is an important issue it was important to me that they not view sex as a difficult subject to broach. I wanted them to know that I would try to answer any question they had with as much frankness as I could muster. It is as difficult for the parent as it is for the child.

Parents really don't want to believe that their little babies are having these feelings and questions. More important to me was that they understood that I would not think differently of them for having these thoughts and questions.