Sex Education At A Younger Age

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ok age 8 is defanatly to young,age 12 is good

 

Okay, seriously, there is nothing gross about sex and the things involved with it, sex itself is a beautiful thing, that should be admired, not swept under the covers, like many people do. I think that it should be taught from an early age, maybe 10. Not everything about it, but just a quick introduction, to crush curiosity. If a kid ASKS their parents about it at any age, it should be told, but again, not the entire story, just the basics.

As for things like masturbation and pornography, that shouldn't really be told to anyone until they are 13, once they go through puberty and are actually able to...participate in the act. But this also can be the parents choice, if they want to avoid it, then thats their choice.

 

I agree completely...although what you said was basically what I said earlier, except longer and better explained. XD

However, to put it shortly...kids will find out eventually, and although gross, it's better for them to find out than avert the subject. Hopefully, their parents will be able to help them with knowing the right morals and limits and such, about sex. So really...it's up to the parents, but I would advise not trying to change the subject or anything...just don't explain it to them in a detailed manner.

 

An 8 year old knowing about sex is bad but they should learn it at a younger age and more importantly learn about safe sex (teaching abstinence never works at all nowadays but telling students about STD's and what they can get without using the proper types of protection is responsible but don't encourage them to have sex but if they must they should practice the safe version.

and I know a friend of mine and she's 14 and was very sexually active until her mother found out about it when the school told her mum that she was breaking into a shed with six other men and doing 'mature' things with them. She's been ridiculed and put in trouble of it and I've told her she needs to take some tests as she had unsafe sex at least four times with four different men. But her mum has grounded her for a year and she can't leave the house and isn't willing to tell her mum she is at risk.

She wasn't educated on anything so they should reinforce teaching sexual education at 12 as they don't in my school and wait until all of you are 14-15 and it is really poor how they go around it.

Opinions differ but that's what happens in my school and I find it unacceptable.

 

I learned the general difference between men and women along with maturational development starting in grade one. And learned about intercourse when I was about 9 or ten-- so around the fourth or fifth grade. I don't think there's anything really wrong with it seeing as at that time kids have the introspective thoughts about where they came from. It's better to be forearmed and forewarned as opposed to learning from ridiculous rumours and misconceptions in the school yard. And hey, if taught right like any other fundamental in elementary school there's application in the long run to developing choices and being consciously aware of some of the later hazards in life.

 

I personally don't think that it should be taught in school until about 6th grade. Parents should be encouraged to teach their children about it when they feel that there child would benefit from knowing. For instance, if the child is 8 and asks where babies come from, the parents should tell them in a very general and brief way. If you lie to a child, they're likely to go to school the next day and tell all their friends that babies come from storks, possibly confusing some. But as far as an actual class goes, I'd say 6th grade would be the best year to start. Any younger and it seems highly unnecessary, becuase the child probably won't be able to relate to anything that they are being told will happen to their bodies or the concept of sex in general. Not that they would in 6th grade, but you've got to start somewhere, and you don't want kids getting into the age where they might be thinking about having sex without knowing about it and its possible consequences.
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11, 12 or 13 is a reasonable age. Since you're going through puberty then, you'll understand it more.

At 8 years old...dear god, just make our society more perverted why don't ya. xD lol

 

Yes it should be the parents choice but also many children now a days are getting pregnant by the age of 12 sometimes a bit earlier. My own cusion just had a baby in October and she is only 16. I think that to a point sex education for safe sex practices should be taught fairly early but at age 8 that sounds like its a little to soon.

 

umm...well, for a start, i actually cant remember when i first learnt about it, probably from a book, and my older cousins or something like that. well, my grade learnt about sex in grade 7, and its sad that the teachers thought we didnt know about it, except for some kids (one of the boys thought girls couldnt urinate cause they didnt have a pen is) which i think is just...sad.

anyway, enough bout my school, an 8 yr old to know about it, who cares really, my brothers 7 and he knows about it.

see what cousins and books do T.T

 

Well, personally, I watched "the movie" when I was eight years old. At my old elementary school, they showed it in fifth grade (however children could be exempt from it with a signed slip from the parent), but I went along with my sisters, who were ten at the time. I also went through the early stages of puberty very early on (around 10 or 11), so I don't think that learning about sex at an early age can be entirely bad. We started to go into more depth in sixth or seventh grade, which I do agree, is the best age.

However, I don't think that adults understand that children are going to go through their early years without picking some of this up. Parents think that their children will never learn about this from people in their school or someone on the street, when, in reality, they could.

But I'm straying a little off-topic, so all-in-all, I'm in the middle with this subject: In some cases, eight is a little too young, especially if the child is very immature. But for children that will hit puberty early, it could be beneficial.

 

I can see why you are torn on it, and I'm not sure '8' years old is the age I would say to teach it but perhaps 10 years old since there are very few people that actually are going through things at 8. However, you bring up points I did and others did as to why I think it should be taught earlier.

There are girls that hit puberty early. I can remember girls that were a bit more heavy set getting 'boobs' at 10 even. I can also say that kids do pass around information to one another and well, rather than 'kids' teaching things that some adults just toss out there to kids and is well...a biased point of view, I think for the kids' safety at large, they should know the truth. Some parents really do tell their children the wrong things and well, when you can hear 4 year olds telling you to go f yourself up the ***...do you want that same kid telling your child about sex when he's 8? I would hope not. But it will happen because that kid will be 'cool' and doing things he or she should not at even as young as 8 and though it won't be full intercourse, it may just involve going out and groping and even molestation.

In an ideal situation, -parents- would teach their children, but it just doesn't happen that way often. Some parents won't even say anything other than 'just don't you be having sex' and just toss girls pads because they should already know what they are for because school taught them, and for boys, sometimes parents try to just say how 'bad' they are as they go through their puberty years and don't say anything to them either, which to me, can just as well encourage the 'curiosity' as with telling children all about sex at an early age.

This is why I'd hope that the version they'd teach 8 or 10 year olds etc would be something 'lite' because kids don't need to know how to put on condoms and do the acts, but they do need to recognize truth from fiction because sadly even some adults don't know that.

 

I learned about it when I was in like fifth grade. But really, most kids have to atleast pick some of it up, it would be stupid to say they wouldn't. When all of the boys had the class, a hot teacher was teaching it (not to be a pervert lol), but any way, we all just laughed, we had always been talking about sex.

 

8 Years Old! Omg Thats Way To Young!

 

have you noticed that only people who agree ist too young are posting...

 

Most seem to disagree which I see some of their points but some who have thought it wasn't such a horrible idea also have. It is an issue that I think might be somewhat difficult to comment on for some people whether they agree or not with what is said.

 

Of course not. Kids that young shouldn't be talking about any of that kind of stuff until their about to hit puberty, or mature enough to discuss such a matter.


They wouldn't even understand half of the sexual crap that runs in sex ed anyway.

 

people who learn at an earlie age about the 'body' might think that *censored* is the only meaning of life. and i think that it should be learned when the child starts to enter pubirty, or starts to get a crush on a classmate in school. But if its before they are growing into puberty stages, i think they don't need to know.

 

im not sure abotu the age. it diffferes with everyone. you can definately tell in my grade 8 class. i hti puberty at 11 years old, bu alot of gthe guys in my class really havent had nay major changes yet, and due to that, i look about 2 years older than most of them, and im about a head taller than everybody in my class (cept two other ppl who are pretty much exactly my height)

 

I had the talk about puberty last year, when i was 10. It was disscusting! We were supposed to have "the talk" this year, but i moved. I still don't believe it. I saw on Nickelodion a commercial that said that kids should have sex ed at a younger age. And yes, On NICKELODION! I mean come one! Some kids are probably going to tell their parents "mommy, what's sex?" "oh, honey..well, why do you ask?" "i saw something about it on Nick!" Granted, it wasn't like, Nick Junior but still!