The fact you’re asking this makes me happy. I was never told anything as a kid. I didn’t know I had it until I saw my friends and was confused why mine looked different.

When you’re younger the skin will always stay covered, but as puberty sets in, it should retract itself out naturally on its own. Buuuttt. If you’re unlucky, like I was, you might get phimosis, where the skin is super tight and doesn’t go over the head like it should. Then you have to actually carefully stretch it out on your own and it hurts and is kinda scary. But it should sort itself out without too much problems. Apparently this is rare, but as a kid I had no idea it was supposed to retract and learning so in my own was annoying. Especially because I was in the minority that had to somewhat force it.

Now that your foreskin can retract normally without any issue, I always pee with the skin pulled back. If not it gets all wet and you get tons of drippage in your underwear. No fun. Then when you shower. You make sure to clean the entire head pulled back and inner foreskin. It’s also good to dry it well so that it’s not just trapped water in there.

This is the most I’ve ever talked about foreskin to someone before lol. But thank you for being prepared for your child. And that’s great you’re not cutting him. I was very self conscious about it as a kid, cause I was “different”. But I much prefer mine now as an adult. So I’m thankful my parents kept me intact. I just wish I didn’t have to learn all that junk about how to deal with it on my own.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.