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Old 04-07-2008, 12:21 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Call for sex lessons at age four

Two leading sexual health charities call for compulsory sex education for children as young as four.

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Old 04-07-2008, 07:37 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I dont think anybodys suggesting you tell them how to have sex aged 4, but certainly starting to gain an awareness of relationships etc from that age is certainly useful.
Ideally its something parents should be doing, but in this day and age I'm not certain parents can be relied on to do that.
If people start having sex aged 13-14-15, they need to know about the birds and the bees earlier than that.
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Old 04-07-2008, 09:13 PM   #3 (permalink)
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wtf?! Some sub teacher tried to talk us through how babies were made in year 3 and NO-ONE was paying any attention... they don't care at this age and they def wont understand! If there are some that have been exposed to stuff earlier, cos of older siblings then yeh its the families responsibility. The other innocent (!) ones don't have to deal with it.
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Old 04-07-2008, 10:36 PM   #4 (permalink)
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We taught ourselves from the dictionary in year three. Thought it was disgusting at the time.
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we watched a video in year 5
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Old 04-07-2008, 11:41 PM   #6 (permalink)
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wtf?! Some sub teacher tried to talk us through how babies were made in year 3 and NO-ONE was paying any attention... they don't care at this age and they def wont understand! If there are some that have been exposed to stuff earlier, cos of older siblings then yeh its the families responsibility. The other innocent (!) ones don't have to deal with it.
Firstly, you severely underestimate the ability of 4 year olds if you think they can't understand that girls have vaginas, boys have penises, and mummies and daddies love each other very much and make babies together. This is the extent of what they would be taught in sex education at that age.

And what the hell does innocent mean today anyway? Its just another word for ignorance which isn't something we should encourage in children.
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Old 04-07-2008, 11:47 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Yeah like thats going to suffice for a 4 year old... how does it happen? and then they want to see it, and they want to do it. Imagine that for nursery play. Try explaining why its for older people. About condoms, STDs, sexual preferences. Sillyness....

What i'm doing is not underestimating them, ignorance when it comes to sex isn't going to hurt a 4 year old! It's just better suited to an older child, who'll understand the answers to the questions they ask.
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Yeah like thats going to suffice for a 4 year old... how does it happen? and then they want to see it, and they want to do it. Imagine that for nursery play. Try explaining why its for older people. About condoms, STDs, sexual preferences. Sillyness....

What i'm doing is not underestimating them, ignorance when it comes to sex isn't going to hurt a 4 year old! It's just better suited to an older child, who'll understand the answers to the questions they ask.
Actually a degree of sexual play between pre-school children is normal. They may touch themselves, they may even touch each other. Read any child psychiatry book and you will see this is a perfectly normal part of child development.

In your last post you were saying they would show no interest at all and now you're saying that they would not be happy with the limited amount of information that is developmentally appropriate. Make up your mind :P

The fact is children already have questions about the difference between boys and girls (infact, most can identify who are boys and who are girls at 2 years old). At 4 years old, this class would merely bring together the ideas they already have.

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It's just better suited to an older child, who'll understand the answers to the questions they ask.
At what age is it appropriate to tell everything about sex? I think certain areas of sex shouldnt be taught to 14/15 year olds. So, whatever age you are teaching sex at theres always going to be a limit to what information you're going to divudge - and yes and whatever age they may ask about things you think arent age appropriate. This does not mean that the subject matter that is age appropriate shouldn't be taught.
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Actually a degree of sexual play between pre-school children is normal. They may touch themselves, they may even touch each other. Read any child psychiatry book and you will see this is a perfectly normal part of child development.
You don't wanna know what we got up to in reception and year 1. For some reason the girls were more 'exploratory' than the boys.
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Actually a degree of sexual play between pre-school children is normal. They may touch themselves, they may even touch each other. Read any child psychiatry book and you will see this is a perfectly normal part of child development.
Mhhmm, but isn't this the Fruedian way of looking at things..?

I mean I'm sure they might touch each other, but that doesn't necessary make what they do sexual. That's just a question of interpretation.
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