Hi,
I was wondering if any parents here have ever had to confront the issue of their young children masturbating. And if so, how did you handle it? Did you take steps to try to get them to masturbate less, or at least not in public and did it work? And are their things you can do to 'help' your child not discover masturbation. That's been on my mind lately. For the last few months, me and my wife have heard some strange noises coming from our son's bedroom at nighttime, it sounded like some rocking and stuff, but we ignored it. Last week, my wife walked into his room while that sound was being made, and she saw our son lying on top of a rubber ball and rocking his waste over it, and he was quite into it. So now we knew what that sound was. She didn't say anything to him about it, but in the morning when he wasn't looking we hid the ball from him and took it away. The next evening, he was looking for it and asked if we had seen it. But we ignored the question, and still have the ball. IT has been much more peaceful at night, no more rocking sound from his bed in his bedroom, but each night he has been crying a bit for his ball. Will he get over that soon, or should we place the ball back in his room where he will find it again? I don't know if this is something to be concerned about since he has never masturbated in public, basically we just are tired of having to hear that rocking around at night. But it got me wondering how he discovered to do this, and how he discovered that placing a ball right there would feel good, I mean who just goes ahead and lies down on top of an 8 inch rubber ball and places it under their stomach? It makes me very curious as to how he has discovered this, and how his activity may change as he gets older. And he's been doing this for a few months now each night, and he's only three years old? Do other children do the same kinds of things?

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You need physiology AND parenting classes.
The first question you need to ask is: "What is puberty?"

lou1e

i disagree with u i have a 3 year son who plays/touches it i think and been told by my health visitor that its just another part of the body to explore which feels nice , if u make a big deal out of it u will only draw attention to that area and make them do it all the more and whats more u must never make the child feel as if theyare dirty or its really wrong they are still our babies at the end of the day they r ONLY 3 !!

shaena88

seriously i thinks its normal for a little kid. especially boys. they all do it..i have a nephew. hes 7 now but when he was a toddler. he used to hunch the floor and stuff. and i noticed that all toddler boys just love grabbing their private parts which is normal because their just discovering the privates. they dont even know that its masturbating.so it fine theres nothing to worry about

MYDEARFRIEND

when boys end up not being wrapped up in diapers and have access to their penis they will feel their penis as its been covered up and they now know how nice it feels to touch them selves down there.

at age 3 its not realy called masturbating as its not giving him sexual pleasure its just fun to touch his penis and he will get erections at that age but that's normal as well.

just tell him to touch himself in his room and not around others until he understands that its a private thing to do.

even small baby boys will try to touch his penis when you change him as he feels you touching his penis and he will get an erection at that age too.

hope that helps.. just let him enjoy it as it might back fire on you later on in his teen years