In "Sans Rendez-vous", Tuesday, the sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc answers the question of Hervé who is worried about leaving almost no privacy to her 16-year-old teenager, with confinement.

For the specialist, parents do not have to worry about the subject, adolescents being "resourceful."

>> Should we leave more space for our teens in these times of confinement, so as not to interfere in their sexual development?

This is what Hervé asks, who is worried that this new confinement does not leave enough privacy for his teenager.

In Sans rendez-vous, Tuesday, the sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc explains that parents have every reason to be worried about the sexuality of their children but that it should not however interfere in their development. 

Hervé's question

"I have three children, one of whom is 16 years old. I know that this is the age of the first times, when we discover his body, his sexuality. And I am worried because with the current situation, he has almost no privacy. The whole family is in the apartment all the time. What do you think? "

Catherine Blanc's response

It is true that adolescence is a time when we discover things, where we are halfway between childhood - that we are struggling to leave - and the time of the adult with all the adventures, including sexuality is the main concern.

It is true that it is complicated.

It was also true before confinement because we are in families today small and where there is proximity, making the adventure of sexuality a little more complicated.

This proximity with parents is complicated because the child is afraid of mixing his preoccupation and his sexual discovery with parental presence, even symbolic.

It is true that Hervé is right to ask the question, especially in times of confinement where the parents do not arrive at 8 p.m., where they are there all day teleworking and the partitions are in papier mâché, or almost.

Indeed, where do you invite a girlfriend or even, how are you free to discover your own body without fear that all of a sudden, the doors will open?

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It's more complicated, but it's not impossible.

Does this have to be a source of anxiety for parents?

The first thing is not to interfere in the sexuality of our children.

We should not be saying to ourselves "this is where he should live".

Children each have their own pace.

They are often already shaken up by society and the society of their peers, the one with which they operate.

Parents don't need to add more.

On the other hand, what I find more worrying is that at the moment, they don't have a lot of breakaways and that the youth are more depressed at the moment.

She is often on screens, lives off the beaten path because she goes to bed later.

Do not worry about the current period?

You should not worry and especially not be in excess, to be very paternating or mothering.

We cannot on the one hand want children to open up and grow, mature and experience while being on their backs because the current context has meant that spaces have shrunk and suddenly, we take care of our little ones.

They are no longer small and they are making their living.