Normal Sexuality for 5 year olds

November 21, 2009

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newatthis33

DATE: 05/01/03 6:37am

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Normal Sexuality for 5 year olds

About a month ago my son (4 and 3/4 years old) started touching himself quite a bit. He keeps telling us that his pee-pee won't stay down. It appears that he is getting frequent errections. I notice that it seems to happen a lot when he is snuggling with me as well. I assume that this is a normal thing that boys go through but I am at a loss as to why it is happening now and how to handle it. We can tell him it's OK to touch himself but to not do it in public, but the problem is that this is obviously uncomfortable for him and he doesn't know what to do. Any help from others?? how did you handle this? Thanks

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Normal Sexuality for 5 year olds

newatthis33

05/01/03 06:37am

Re: Normal Sexuality for 5 year olds

Andy ; -)

05/14/03 09:48pm

Re: Normal Sexuality for 5 year olds

Rev.Rebecca

07/31/03 08:58am

Re: Normal Sexuality for 5 year olds

Rev.Rebecca

07/31/03 08:55am

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