sexual education?!

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s|m
Do you think it's 'normal' for children under the age of 10 to learn such things in school, or even kindergarten messed?
Plz debate (I, for one, think it's wrong, they're too young)....

ladygrim
yes its too young but theses day children as young as that are 'getting it on' with disasterous consiquences

A4E
I don't think it's too young.. as long as it's teached with prefesionality it's alright

ladygrim
but peopel that age really haVe only just learnt the alphabet and they are meant to now the details of sex

A4E
no not the details, and it's not like I say teach it at kindergardens but like when they're 7, and not give any details until a certain age of course, but just that for a baby to exist a man has to get together with a woman erm

Clovie
everything depends what do you understand by sexual education
for example generl explanation that boy s and girls are different is ok, even for young children
but techinques(sp) on how to make children is unproper

lady

WhoKnows?
they taught us about it in fourth grade!

WhoKnows?
if they are taught it at an early age, then they will have sex at an early age. there was this one little 8 year old who wanted to have sex and his mom didnt know about it. so be careful...

shellie
children are naturally curious about the opposite sex from a very early age. my daughters from the age of around 4 began asking questions like "why am i different from him" or "mommy how did the baby get in your tummy to grow."

from experience , i know its best for you to be open to answering these questions as they ask them. not wait till a so called 'right' age to answer them. however you dont go into detail with a 5 year old on how reproduction is accomplished either...there are ways of giving them age appropriate as needed information to satisfy them till they get a little older and want want more info. at the kindergarten level im not sure it should be taught in school. it should come from mommies and daddies at that age.

but i know this, if it is being taught in a school somewhere that young, the parents are signing the permission form in order for their child to be taught the info and on the form it will have the content to the lesson being taught. so obviously its 'normal' to them.

WhoKnows?
i just always knew about pregnancy, but i never knew how it happened.

peterKSL
But it is not good for a child to live in a lie...

It is the same as lying for the benefit of the child.. which is better? safety or lying?? hmm...

Capt_Fantastic
well, I don't think we need to teach ten year olds about sex. But by the time they're 12 or 13, we need to start letting them know about it. And not just that sex is a fact of life, but that people are not defined by sex.

Time Of Evil
By that age they already know about it.

peterKSL
how about gays? Are they advicable to take lessons?

I think not!!

Leggy_n_Merry
Well really young children that are about 5 or so are always curious about where babies come from and all that and you should tell them about sex but just like vaguely (sp?) not the full thing of it. Then when youre about 9 or 10 you start to just hear things about sex and realise like what it is and then you get taught about it when you're like 12 over here but by that time you already know what it is anyway. And what you said about lying peterKSL, well parents lie about santa claus hahaha so ya know, but i dont think they should lie i just think they should briefly say what it is and where babies come from and then get taught more about it when they're about 12.

Time Of Evil
My mum used to tell me that you asked God for one and then it came into your belly so that it was warm.

shellie
i told my daughters when they asked where babies came from that a special seed that only makes babies is planted inside of mommies baby pouch. in my opinion, it was age appropriate and they didnt ask anymore questions till they got older. except for my daughter josephine who is now 7. she wanted to go to Wal-Mart to buy some seeds that make little brothers. laughing out loud

peterKSL
Actually I had the thought of it on Christmas eve, that what if children really hoped with all their heart that santa would come and visit them, and then they are disappointed on christmas day that Santa didn't come, and they would just suicide or do something foolish, like in search for santa!!! THey show that on TV!!! STUPID!!!...

big gay kirk
If they're old enough to ask, they're old enough to be told.... mind, at our school, it didn't get taught till you were 15... we were taught by a born again Christian who said..."You shouldn't be doing it, so i'm teaching you nothing..." we then used the eight weeks of sex-ed lessons to do homework....

a1hsauce
10 years old is a bit young to be teaching a kid about sex. however there are some very precocious children at that age, so sometimes it needs to be takin on a case by case basis, but thats unrealistic in school. teaching children around that age the general concept of what sex is is sufficient, but going into detail is alil overboard. thats more of 12 13 type of thing

WhoKnows?
strangley, i never really cared. weirdest part: i never found out until 11.

Afro Cheese
If I hadn't" met 5 and 6 year old kids who talked about sex, I would say it's too young. But unfortunately they do know about it from a very young age already.. they never learn about it properly they just pick up things here and there. My friend's younger sister strikes me as a perfect example. When I was about 12 or 13 my best friend had a younger sister who was I guess 6 or 7 at the time. She was absolutely the most perverted little kid I have met in my life. She would constantly make references to sex.. and she would go up to neighbors windows and try to peek at them doing it. She is an extreme example, most little kids aren't like that.. but from what I remember most little kids learn about sex at a much younger age then some believe.

I learned about it when I was 5... a girl who lived on our street and was in one of the higher grades told me and all of my friends about it. By the time most kids take sex ed (which is in 5th grade here) they already know all about sex. They probably don't know the risks, don't know the statistics for STD's, because knowing that kinda stuff doesn't make their friends think they are cool. They always learn the vulgar stuff first and then when they finally go to sex ed it's just a big joke. All me and my friends did in sex ed was crack jokes, we weren't interested in learning shit about sex because we believed we already knew it all.

WhoKnows?
i just liked watching the video.

a1hsauce
lol everybody likes watching the video

big gay kirk
A girl at my school was in tears once when she got kicked in the knee.... she thought she was pregnant.... when she'd asked her mum where babies come from, her mother said.. "its when a man kicks you in the knee..."

Smasandian
Hahaha.
At 12 years old, they should teach about it. Guys already know what most of the parts are due to kids being older and Playboy but they should still understand the reasons why.
I knew **** and such because I grew up with my older brother and friends who lived on the street who were 3 or 4 years older than I. Thats how I found it. But in school, I found out about birthcontrol and all that stuff.

Capt_Fantastic
You and I must live on two totally different worlds, because I almost never understand what you are saying. Please clearify what you're saying.

Capt_Fantastic
Well, my first sexual experience was at the age of 8. So, I can't disagree with you. But, I don't think they need to be taught about it in school before ten years old.

peterKSL
sorry...

That was just random.. I actually misunderstood the question, and ended up not understanding what I was saying... so you can say it's laughing out loud

Imaginary
I learned when I was around 10 or 11.

Silver Stardust
My school did sex ed in 5th grade, so I was 10 or 11.

Alpha Centauri
I got told about it by my parents when I was about 8-9. That's the basics of it anyway, beyond that it's all "how things work". Which is nothing really.

-AC

Napalm
just show the kids some playboys

Lydia_J
I found out about it when i was about 7 or something i cant really remember never knowing about sex, and i havent a clue who told me although it wasnt my parents. We didnt really have sex ed in school until comp so i was about 12 when I was taught about it properly, but its a bit late by then.

Alpha Centauri
The earlier the better in my opinion.

Nobody wants to discover porn and then be told by their parents "We did that". Better to be told by them what it is than find out in a possibly scarring way.

-AC

manny321
well the school should teach that because my parents never gave my a talk about that. I learned from school ariund 11 and i found it a tad funny.

SaTsuJiN
I think teaching them like 2nd year of highschool is too late.. their harmones are raging as soon as they explode out of grammar school these days.. they should even consider a summer school for sex ed laughing out loud

sk8stuff09
when i was in like 4th grade they taught us about puberty, but not sex, my dad told me the birds and the bees when i was 10, i wasnt too young

Afro Cheese
I'm surprised to hear how late some of you learned... sex was the only thing we ever talked about in 4th grade.

Ou Be Low hoo
Education, education, education...If they are curious about it, it should be explained to them in a manner that is in context with their age.

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BODIES AND WHAT WE DO WITH THEM.

Imaginary
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Cid
It's too young.

Jackie Malfoy
Why alot of school teachs it.I think it is up to the parents to teach there kids about the birds and the bees.Not the teacher.It is a personal thing that should be taught by there parents in there own way.JM

Alpha Centauri
"they should even consider a summer school for sex ed"

Exactly.

Like those ones in the old Slasher movies.

-AC

Jackie Malfoy
That would be pointless.JM mad roll eyes (sarcastic)

Alpha Centauri
Nah, point...ful.

-AC

big gay kirk
the problem is that an awful lot of parents don't tell their kids anything about it....

s|m
they never told me about it actually, just vaguelly after the age of 10, i think.
It's better for a kid to find out when the time comes. I mean, why teach a 5-year old "the basics" erm?
It's a life experience, you learn it when you get older, withought anyone teaching you.
How do animals know how to reproduce no expression?

Londonboy7
it was like that in our shool and then in fith grade we watched the movie
then a diffrent movie in 6th grade then in 7th grade we wached ANOTHER movie but we also watched the girls
in 8th grade they just talk about STDs and Birth control stuff. THey NEVER tell us about how to have sex its assumed we know it

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