"When 2 people love eachother ..."

Can I just start out by saying that I have had my 'AHA MOMENT' for the month, please?

How many generations have wanted to improve on the child rearing techniques that molded them into who they've become? I am dead set on cracking the code to raising good citizens. Not that my parents did anything 'wrong' per se' - it's more about how times have changed between 'way back when' and my childhood, and then from my childhood to now.

The biggest subject road block? Sex. Well, for boys the conversation should be about sex (sidebar: I will be the first one to tell my son that girls have periods so he's going to want to stay away from them ...lol but for real - boys need to be taught that NO MEANS NO early on)

For girls I don't think the problems are with the sex conversation. I think it's all in presentation.
If parents tell their daughters that they need to wait to have sex until they are in love (preferably married, but we live in the real world here) then as soon as a boy says, "but I love you" how is she going to handle this? When little girls ask where babies come from and parents respond, "when a mommy and a daddy love eachother ..." then she's going to think that you can only get pregnant when you're married.

It's just a thought I've been mulling over in my head for a couple weeks. We are a new generation of moms. I think we can try a little harder to be involved in our children's cultures and subcultures so that we know what we're up against. As unpleasant as it might seem, i think it's a necessity.