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Christine Lampard has admitted she is worried her young children are watching sexual content online.
The Loose Women presenter, 46, shares both a daughter and a son- Patricia, six, and Freddie, three – with her football legend husband Frank after marrying the former England captain in 2015.
And now she has reflected on how dramatically things have changed since she was a schoolgirl in the 80s.
Growing up the height of scandal was a racy book being passed around the classroom whereas now young people have access to pornography.
Opening up about her fears as a modern mum on the Loose Women podcast, she said: ‘I remember being at school and the Judy Blume books doing the rounds. And it was probably – reading it back now – hardly even remotely dirty. But it was to us.
‘And it was about sexual relations and relationships and things that you wouldn’t have been talking to your parents about.’
Christine Lampard has admitted she is worried her young children are watching sexual content online (pictured in April)
The Loose Women presenter, 46, shares two young children with her football legend husband Frank (pictured in 2021)
Christine added that the thought of today’s children being exposed to explicit pornography at the swipe of a screen leaves her extremely unsettled.
‘You think of how young people have everything at the touch of their phone,’ the presenter said. ‘They’re watching very potentially explicit pornographic detail. That does scare me.
‘A lot of young people think they know more than their parents do anyway because it’s all on their phones.’
The Northern Irish host, who is also step-mum to Frank’s daughters Luna, 18, and Isla, 17, from his previous relationship with Elen Rivas, said they always tried to create a safe and open environment when it came to talking about relationships and sex at home.
‘With Frank’s older girls, our approach was always: if they talk to us, of course, we would talk. But we also approached it all with a slight sense of humour,’ she explained.
‘Sometimes that wasn’t appropriate, but they knew that was a safe space. They did feel they could open up because the reaction was never gonna be, “Oh my god, that’s terrible!” We were never gonna do the shock thing.’
Christine, who grew up attending an all-girls school, also noted that teaching kids about sex and relationships is vastly different today and said parents have to make an effort to stay aligned with what children are learning at school.
‘You have to know those things are happening so you’re in line with the information that’s going into their heads,’ she said.
‘I think naturally those questions come. I mean, my two – and they’re really young – are already asking about where babies come from.’
The couple are parents to Patricia, aged six, and Freddie, aged three, but Christine is concerned about them growing up in the modern age
The couple have been together since October 2009 and got married in 2015, and they are coming up to their 10th wedding anniversary
While she’s happy to keep things innocent for now – especially when it comes to language – she admitted there’s a part of her that wants to hit pause on growing up.
‘How long do you keep going with the kind of nicknames that you have for body parts?’ she mused. ‘Frank says dinkle for the old willy and just boobies – you know, old school.’
When her podcast co-presenter Coleen Nolan joked that ‘Frank needs to grow up,’ Christina, laughing, responded: ‘Dinkle’s cute though, isn’t it? When we were potty training Freddie, that was the terminology.
‘So Freddie would say, “Your dinkle does this, then you have to wash your dinkle”.’
Christine added she’s acutely aware of the need for responsibility when the time comes.
‘When it comes to girls, I have friends who got their periods at ten, eleven, twelve,’ she said.
‘You’re still a very young girl at that stage, but yet your body physically is turning into a woman. So with that comes the huge responsibility of knowing what it means.’
She added: ‘I think you kind of know the time. You do. And your child might make it slightly easier for you by actually broaching it. And if they don’t, just make it a very safe feeling space if they do want to.’
The Northern Irish host (picture din 2021) is also step-mum to Frank’s daughters Luna, 18, and Isla, 17, from his previous relationship with Elen Rivas
It comes after Christine revealed the reason her husband often used to cancel their dates at the start of their relationship.
They are approaching their 10th wedding anniversary this year and the TV star has now opened up about their early dating days where things weren’t all plain sailing.
When they met he was busy playing for Chelsea but used to cancel dates with her when the team didn’t win.
She told The Sun: ‘When he was playing, he used to cancel nights out when Chelsea didn’t win. Thankfully, it didn’t happen that often, as luckily, Chelsea won a lot!’
‘It was actually alright. He would be annoyed just because he takes it all so seriously!’
She added that football was a whole new world for her and didn’t understand why it was such a big deal.
Christine explained: ‘I went to an all-girls’ school, I didn’t have brothers. Football just wasn’t a thing. I couldn’t have cared less. And then, suddenly, I started to care.
‘The more I went to the games, the more I got it. I thought, “Oh my god, I see why people are into this. There is something magical about it”.’
It comes after Christine revealed her husband often used to cancel their dates at the start of their relationship if his team lost (Frank seen playing for Chelsea in 2012)
Frank recently revealed the secret to his happy marriage with his beloved wife Christine.
He told the Mirror: ‘What keeps me and Christine going is we’re there to support each other and we make each other laugh. We have a similar sense of humour.
‘Christine’s quite sharp and we’re normally thinking the same thing, so the same situations make us laugh – I think laughing together is important for a happy marriage.’
Frank was introduced to his wife at The Pride Of Britain Awards by fellow TV presenter Piers Morgan in 2009.
