Mom reveals why she lets her kids know when she's having sex

A mom has opened up about why she has decided to let her kids know when she's having sex.

Writer Jamie Beth Cohen, from Pennsylvania, said that her decision to let her two children, aged eight and 11, know when she is having sex has improved the intimate time she is having with her husband.

Prior to the pandemic, she and her husband had sex when their children were at school, sports clubs, or playdates, but none of this has been possible recently, so she decided to take an unusual approach.

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Writing for HuffPost, Jamie said: "A few months into our self-imposed quarantine, a few months in which I felt like having sex with my husband was akin to sneaking around - and not in the good way, like when you're 16 and riding on the back of the 'bad boy's' motorcycle - I decided to tell the kids exactly when we were having sex."

She said that attempting to hide it from her children felt like "lying" and that she simply couldn't do it anymore.

Jamie said she told her kids: "If I close the door and turn on the fan in the hall, please leave us alone. We're having sex.'"

Unsurprisingly, Jamie's children laughed and squirmed at the revelation, but they respected their parents' need to have this time together.

She said that her decision to be honest enabled her and her husband to spend more of this quality time together and actually increased the intimacy of the act to what it was when they were a younger couple in their twenties.

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Describing the pandemic as "stressful", Jamie said that the opportunity that it has given her to reconnect sexually with her husband has been a godsend.

She said that as she and her husband were forced to give up date nights in restaurants, they decided to make up for it by having "good sex".

While Jamie admits that her honest approach will likely raise the eyebrows of other parents, she believes that being so honest about sex will be good for her children in the long run.

She said: "I hope when they think back on the mess that 2020 has become - if we are all lucky enough to live long enough to look back on it, no guarantee these days or ever - they will approach the idea of sex (and, when they start having it, the act of sex) with less shame and secrecy than I did, and they will value how much their parents cared about each other."