I’m Too Shy To Talk To My Kids About Sex: Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan has never talked to his teenage kids about sex and here’s why. 

Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt have been talking about life, love and relationships all through their promotions for Gauri Shinde’s Dear Zindagi. But interestingly, for the very first time, we heard king Khan talking about sex education as a part of growing up and loving life.

While Alia said that she used to have candid conversations with her mother about sex and sexuality while growing up, SRK admitted that he’s too shy to talk to his kids about it. The actor says that even though he’s like a friend to his three children, he feels shy talking to them about sex, and so he hasn’t ever brought it up.

Same! My mother gave me sex education classes (laughs!). For me, it’s the other way, do I sit my kids down and talk to them? No. I am extremely friendly with my children and if I am not being too presumptuous, I think it’s because of the relationship that I shared with my father. Also, I am personally very shy so I may not be able to educate my children about sex, so I don’t bring that up. Sometimes while watching films together, I feel that they are perhaps a little more educated about it than I am. Maybe, I should take a little class from them.

Shah Rukh Khan, Actor

SRK also joked about the fact that his teenage son and daughter are probably more educated and aware about sex than him. Shah Rukh goes on to say that it’s okay to not know about something, and that one should be honest about it, irrespective of judgement.

I have a simple philosophy towards my children or the people who I love. Two aspects I never question. First, is their action, which I believe is all good. Second, is their ability to say ‘I don’t know’. If I ask my son why he did something and he tells me, ‘I don’t know’, it’s a good enough answer. In schools when you are asked a question and you say that you don’t know, it’s often humiliating. It is a child’s right not to know. And even an adult’s right. At 51, it’s my right not to know and my self-confidence is really high even though you ask me something and I don’t know it.

Shah Rukh Khan

Dear Zindagi looks like a slice-of-life kind of film, which probably deals with things that are usually left unsaid. It being Gauri Shinde’s second film after English Vinglish, we hope for it to be a sensitive portrayal of relationships, complications and feelings, that we all have trouble addressing. But it surely is interesting to know a bit more about Shah Rukh’s real life bond with his children.

(Source: Times Of India)