I think I see your problem ma'am...

[BlaqueKatt]

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"I did not let my fifth-grade son attend the sexual education seminar at his school because, frankly, I did not want the school to teach my son about these things."

"he is hearing these other kids' interpretation of things that are just way beyond their level and the things these kids come up with is comical!"

"Can I get the material they talked about to see if I can get into this with my son, even though I really don't want to?"



Hmmm didn't want the school to teach him(it's only the puberty stuff not actual "sex-ed"-teachers not allowed to answer sexual questions either), Don't want to teach him yourself, yet you're upset by what he's learning from his friends/peers-WTF? What were you expecting?

Though I did like the comment from the mother that was preaching "abstinence only" to her 13 yo daughter as was the school, however at least she was smart enough to change her tune and talk to her about protection once another 13 year old got pregnant....

[Red Panda]

Kids should be learning about sex their entire lives. It should be as natural as teaching them to use a toilete. Thats the way to make sure they know everything and are prepared for it. Trying to rush to teach them everything on the onset of puberty is irrespencilble and will not work.

[protege]

When I was that age, I actually attended a sex-ed class. Mainly because my mother (a nurse, go figure) felt a bit uncomfortable talking about it with me. To this day, I have no idea what squicked her out But, considering the alternatives...I'm glad she did.

Some of my relatives weren't so lucky. My Uncle Dick, took a different approach. He, being a "born-again Christian," decided that sex was evil, and if you had it before marriage...you were going straight to Hell. Dick was a guy who got upset over the "bar' scene in Top Gun. As the characters were discussing getting laid, he hit the ceiling. Funny enough, he quit preaching that...when his oldest daughter got pregnant

[Peppergirl]

Funny enough, he quit preaching that...when his oldest daughter got pregnant

I know I'm evil for saying this, but ain't karma a bitch?

[fireheart17]

I attended the "where did I come from" class really early on.
And I wound up doing the whole "sex ed" thing in Year 6...when I actually meant to be in year 5.

[tabbyblack13]

I remember watching the video in 5 grade about puberty. Sex ed wasn't until 7th and 8th grade.

If you or a educated teacher doesn't tech your kid their friends will. That's what will happen.

[ExRetailDrone]

I had the maturation talk in 4th grade, and then actual sex ed in 8th. And in my sex ed class, I got to watch a video of a live birth. Wonder what all those preachy abstinence-only advocates would say about that? But let me tell you, after watching that video I wanted nothing to do with it and swore I would adopt

Oh, and by the time I took sex ed, I had known about sex for years. My mom sat me down when I was about 8, and embarrassed as she was about it, she at least told me the basics.

[Hyena Dandy]

I remember my sex-ed class. It was at church. Now, I'm a Catholic, but my family were Unitarians. Sex Ed class was very... Forthright.

After that class, I had no idea why abstinence only programs don't teach it, because honestly, they made sex sound so boring that nobody would want it.

[tropicsgoddess]

Wow...that lady is just plain freaking stupid.

[smileyeagle1021]

I like my mom's patented sex ed method.
Math.
She of course went into the birds and the bees.
Then she pulled out her calculator to go over the cost of a pregnancy and having a child, and how many hours I'd have to work at minimum wage to pay for that, or how much I'd have to work to pay medical bills for an STD, with the understanding that if either did happen, she expected me to pay for it.
Oh yeah, understanding the true cost that sex can have will dissuade anyone from having unprotected sex.

[infinitemonkies]

Kids should be ARE learning about sex their entire lives.

Corrected for accuracy. It is the worst sort of naivety/willful blindness to think for even a second that your kids won't know anything about sex until you're ready for them to know.

[Exaspera]

Corrected for accuracy. It is the worst sort of naivety/willful blindness to think for even a second that your kids won't know anything about sex until you're ready for them to know.

And then it's too late.

[jackfaire]

I didn't know anything about sex until after sex ed. I don't consider giggling when people say the words doing it as knowing about sex.

[Rapscallion]

I like my mom's patented sex ed method.
Math.
She of course went into the birds and the bees.
Then she pulled out her calculator to go over the cost of a pregnancy and having a child, and how many hours I'd have to work at minimum wage to pay for that, or how much I'd have to work to pay medical bills for an STD, with the understanding that if either did happen, she expected me to pay for it.
Oh yeah, understanding the true cost that sex can have will dissuade anyone from having unprotected sex.

All things considered, Smiley, it might have worked a little too well for you ...

Rapscallion

[KellyHabersham]

Corrected for accuracy. It is the worst sort of naivety/willful blindness to think for even a second that your kids won't know anything about sex until you're ready for them to know.

I'd have to agree on this, as I think my mom would've preferred that my siblings and I be completely ignorant about anything to do with sex until we were married. (this being when she felt it was "appropriate" to be thinking about/interested in sex)

Needless to say, she didn't react any too well when I got pregnant as a teenager, and gave me a speech about how my future husband was going to be so upset that I hadn't waited for him. And where I've since thought it was really weird is that she wouldn't have been willing to take me to Planned Parenthood if I'd mentioned wanting to get on birth control, but she couldn't seem to move fast enough getting me an appointment there to try to get them to convince me to have an abortion.