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They should watch the same film most of us watch and they need to play it on reel film so they can get same effect of quality YouTube - Sex-ed (1957) pt.1
sex ed....lol. the kids these days are bombarded by porn on the internet, i just wonder if it will make them "more" or "less" curious about sex? if i had to guess, i would say that the kids of tommorrow will be having sex more because the internet and porn will make sex "less" taboo? that is just my guess. hopefully, sex ed will teach them to use condoms. all of us might become a grandfather/grandmother alot sooner than we like
Yep, my mother never taught me any of it... none of the human biology, puberty, nothing. I would not have known, if not for what I was taught in school... and then I did not end up with the shock of my life!!!
My dd is in 6th grade this year, the first year I allowed it. High Functioning Aspergers Syndrome.
She was disgusted, but I felt it was time that she learned some things from another person, in a more educational level, that she did not want to hear from me.
Mommy, that is not going to happen to me, she would say as I explained. That is gross, I am never going through puberty.
I also agree about different things for different ages.
And no, my mother did not teach me about safe sex either, I am sure many don't, which is why, as much as I don't want my kids learning about these things, they really need to..
In this day and age, as well as I have raised them.... you can never know, and they must be prepared, also know that they can come to you with anything, and this is how I have brought them up... come to me with anything... please. It is ok.
It all comes down to this: parents should not depend on the school to teach their children what they need to know, and the school should not depend on the parents to teach their children what they need to know.
The school should absolutely cover this education including abstinence AND BIRTH CONTROL, and should supply the kids with information on where they can get free birth control. Personally I also believe that it is a GOOD thing to have free condoms available confidentially through the school nurse. Accessibility increases the chance that prophylactics will be used.
Now, if some parent has objections to their child receiving the proper education, then they could withhold their child from the classes, but I think that they should have to submit a written request for this, otherwise the child has to attend.
I think the importance of morals and romance should be touched on..
A lovely thought, but that's opening a whole new can of worms. Whose morals are you going to teach? Maybe they're not the same morals as the next set of parents. Maybe they're too strict or too lenient...
No, morals are best left for parents and churches.
I think people are too diversified to really be able to agree on what and what not should be taught in the school systems when it comes to sex ed. I guess if would be real hard to stay on the main points while having to tippy-toe around the subjects which may cause offense to some parents. Birth control, abortion, homosexuality, etc...are all subjects that kids are going to ask about and it puts the teacher in a real difficult situation if he/she have to figure out a way to answer without some parent coming back and complaining. It's a no-win situation.
I think they should just teach the basics about reproduction, the human biology part. I don't think it's necessary to get into abstinence or birth control methods. Let the parents do that.
The big problem is that many parents do not know much about human reproduction other than rolling in the sack. They cannot intelligently discuss human anatomy, the stages of human gestation, abortions, or birth control methods. So leave all this up to the school and trained health/biology teachers.
Perhaps I was giving too many parents credit for discussing sex with their children. It should be taught in schools, regardless, and I do like the idea of giving parents the option of not having their child(ren) in the class -- I did have parents object to the mythology unit tied-in with Homer's Odyssey, believe it or not.
Maybe I was more determined to NOT have my daughter grow up, uneducated, like what I did. My Mother just wasn't comfortable with it, I guess, but it sure was an injustice to her three daughters. That, and we really got a lot of misinformation and skewed ideas, if you can imagine. My Dad would only laugh, and say things like, "Your hormones are talking here" -- and that was when I was in my 20s and my fiance approached him about getting married. Good grief.
I do think parents need to handle the morals and romance issues. I made a point to tell my daughter that while our bodies are ready physically, even 'eager' to be involved physically, so few of us are emotionally prepared for a relationship at that level.
Maybe folks who grew up in the 60s and 70s, during the height of the sexual revolution, the advent of the Pill, and women's lib, realized the value of sex ed? Has the pendulum swung in the other direction now?
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Parents don't know much about sex ed
