My kids are slowly approaching the point where they might soon become "active". I'm trying to be aware that this may happen well before I expect it, and I have stuff I need to tell them before their first time.

But here's what I've got so far.

I started with joking around before they even started puperty, just to nornalize talking about these things. Any joke they didn't get was an opposite to move a (very short) explanation, so they get used to asking and getting a useful answer.

For the girl, I have a bit more emphasis on peer pressure. Certain things just don't doo, no matter what friends and "friends" say, or do, or say they do. First my examples was stuff like typical rule-breaking in school and bikining without a helmet. Then smoking. Building up the idea that peer pressure exists and the confidence to reject it. Then finally I said directly that sex is not something you are supposed to do at any age, or because you have a partner, or because all your friends claim they did it. The first time has to be with a partner you really trust, and not to satisfy them, but because you both want it.

The boy get the same kind of conversation, but with him I have more emphasis of "the other side" of that conversation - be nice to people, gender doesn't matter here. Starting with stuff like don't pull the girls long hair. Even during the phase where most boys in the class didn't like girls and wouldn't even talk to them, still respect them as human beings. Specially, respect a no. If you are having fun with a girl but the girl isn't having fun, you need to stop immediately, and think about how you got into that mess. He will soon learn that this is not just for hair pulling and name calling, it goes for any kind of play-time...

With this framework and their ability to look up stuff online when talking to parents is too embarrassing in spite of all our efforts, I think they'll be fine. Everything else is just even better.

And they actually both ask great questions. Like at what age is it normal to start. How did I survive the embarrassment of buying condoms when I started. Most questions are actually about understanding jokes.

Also not a prostitute, also heard them answer this before.

They often pick something that makes it clearly different. Like always use condom at work, never outside work. Maybe only the boyfriend gets anal. Or maybe only the boyfriend gets vagina.

Actually the condom thing was an issue mentioned in the news in my country. That is not a good strategy, especially if they get a new partner fairly often.

Here we have 3 year old kids walking to kindergarten unsupervised.

Kind of opposite. My girlfriend would give me a hand job because she wasn't horny when I was. Then suddenly ask me to finish doggy style. I assumed she got horny enough.

After a couple of times I told her that she feels different inside when this happens.

Then she told me that it's not that she gets horny, it's just that her arm gets tired. I then had to tell her I'd rather just stop, than fuck her when she's not horny.

Sometimes. For me, the real answer is usually too long.

For example I'll list 5 things, and she doesn't understand 4 of them. So I spend a few minutes explaining one of them, at which point she will realize how boring it is and lose interest. After a few times she will stop asking.

I learned that the correct answer is short and simple. Like "How lucky I am to have you", "What to cook for dinner", "What is that smell, it might be me" or maybe just "work".

Also, it has to match the facial expression I had right before she asked. Sometimes the hard part is to figure out what that was.

Even if I prefer a slim body, an overweight woman can still have an amazingly hot body.

Plus, a woman can have a "below average" body (slim or fat), and still be very hot.

I'm not sure if the question is just about the body or the entire woman, so I answered both.

Any FMF position I can think of is probably better in my imagination than real life.

Except cuddling. That has to be good. Can we just skip the sex and go straight to the cuddles?

I know several happily married couples with kids and everything, that started as friends with benefits or even just sex. As in basically sex before the first date. So yeah, totally possible.

For your second question, the easy answer is that it's how they were taught they are supposed to be. On purpose or not. Maybe both parents didn't like talking about emotions with "a boy" or with anyone, and now they are not used to it and barely have the language to talk about it. Or maybe something made them believe that their emotions are unusual, weird or even wrong, and choose not to share. I guess it's very individual.