How to talk to your child about sexual safety

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As a parent, you will always do whatever needs to be done so as to keep your children safe from danger and hurt. However, like all the other parents, you always end up worried whenever you think about your child being exposed to the terrifying danger of sexual abuse, considering you can’t always know from where and when it can come.

Even so, sitting down a toddler and explaining to them what sex is, let alone sexual abuse, isn’t viable no matter what angle you decide to look at it, and it you might only end up confusing and scaring them.