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What should I answer when my 10-year-old son, who is in fifth grade, suddenly asked me today what AIDS is?

Answer: AIDS is a disease that is spread by blood, or by some kind of illicit behavior. It is a disease for which there is currently no cure in the world.

Positive guidance is recommended to satisfy the child's curiosity and inquisitiveness with scientific knowledge

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First of all, protect and cherish your child's desire for knowledge. Nowadays, it is more valuable for children to be able to ask questions than to be able to answer them! Especially if he asks you questions, it shows that he trusts you, and it also shows that you are maintaining a good parent-child relationship! [Kudos]

Secondly, scientific answers. You can find some similar missionary films from the Internet, preferably cartoon animation type to watch with him, he will not only learn from the knowledge, but also can appreciate your rigor to the study and the importance of him!

Third, explore the question behind the question. Any suddenness is an accumulated inevitability! He can be guided to say why he asked the question? If it is true that you have seen too many advertisements, do you think that such advertisements are beneficial to children?

Turn off the TV. Open a book.

Troubles are self-evident and beneficial!




There are two ways to think about your question.

First: This is the kind of question that parents should mostly not consider too paranoid, and if they give their children inappropriate answers, it will affect their physical and mental health. But AIDS is such a thing, do not over magnify the harm, and do not trivialize its nature. For 10-year-olds, it's better to be guided, otherwise the improper use of words can scare the child. AIDS is supposed to be a manifestation of an impaired immune system. Don't give your child too many hints about the gender aspect, which will affect your child physically and mentally. You can explain to your child that AIDS is a disease caused by a defective and impaired immune system, or a serious infectious disease transmitted by blood.

Second: 10-year-old children are not yet fully sound mind, you can use some other diseases to compare the nature of AIDS and how harmful it is. 10-year-old children will enter puberty in a short time, the correct gender guidance is very necessary, such as what is the essential difference between boys and girls, so that children learn more about the differences between the sexes, as well as the social roles and social responsibilities of people of different sexes. To establish a correct gender concept.

To summarize, 10 year olds are in a budding stage of thinking and must establish correct sexual concepts, but parents should not put too much gender pressure on their children. Basic medical knowledge at 10 years old I think should be gradually learn, know what is good and what is bad.

You tell him it's something like a human spy. Specialized in destroying the defenses of human armies.

It can be put this way.

AIDS, is a disease that has a long incubation period, persistent attacks, and will eventually cause the body to lose its defenses (immunity). When the body loses its defenses, all kinds of diseases will come to him, and then he is not far from death.

There are three ways to get the disease, one is blood transmission, which can be simply understood as a broken wound coming into contact with the blood of a person with AIDS.

The second is mother-to-child transmission; if the mother has AIDS, the children will have it.

Thirty Sexual Transmission, which is when one partner in a couple has AIDS, the other partner can be infected, and it's only the adults who get it.

Even though they are elementary school students, they should learn about HIV prevention. Make sure that your child understands the seriousness of AIDS from a scientific point of view, and make sure that you tell them the ways in which they may be infected and create a sense of safety.

This parent can rationally treat the child's question, truthful answer, AIDS transmission channels, such as blood infection, blood transfusion, blood donation, drug use and so on, of course, blood transfusion and blood donation refers to irregular medical institutions, and some of the cost savings with the old-fashioned injections sterilized imperfectly are possible. Finally, it is difficult to speak of sexual transmission can actually go to the child to tell, this is physiological knowledge, in fact, nothing, of course, the boy has to father, the girl will have to mother to explain. In fact, we do not speak of the child with curiosity, the Internet 'probably also can check, this opportunity I think we parents or to leave themselves, so that the child really rational to recognize the treatment of some things, is not better. Consequently, we parents can exaggerate a little bit.

This problem involves the issue of sex education for children. Children nowadays generally have early psychological maturity and are exposed to a wide range of information channels. This places higher demands on parents.

First of all, do not regard this matter as a flood of beasts, and use simple and rough methods to reprimand the child, this will instead be more aroused by the child's curiosity, once he can not get the answer from the parents, he will try to get from other channels, so that it is more likely to be out of control.

Then it is necessary to talk to the child about the causes of AIDS, the means of transmission, and the consequences of the disease, and how to prevent it, etc. It is important to make the child aware of the dangers and even the danger to his life, so that a deeper impression will be formed in his mind.

Learning to communicate with your child is crucial, every child will encounter problems on the way to grow up, just solve them, don't be afraid, the more you think his problems are normal, the less curious he will be.

This depends on the daily home environment and what you usually talk about. If there's never been a topic covered, how people come to be, the sexes, etc., so to speak:

I'm not a doctor either and can't give a very comprehensive answer. However, I can simply say that it is a blood disease that is feared. It is a disease that can lead to death, mainly due to long term lack of personal hygiene or infection from others. You'll understand when you get older.

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