All politics aside . . . I can’t help but respond to this week’s media and political firestorm concerning the comments of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. I would much rather parents provided sex education for their children instead of the public school. While I could debate how sex education is funded and who provides it, I would not debate that sex education begins before kindergarten. In fact, there is a whole list of things a kindergarten age child should know as a foundation for healthy Christian sex education.
Sex education is not just providing information about the physical act and reproduction, sex education includes teaching about spiritual values, emotional intimacy, loving relationships, family roles, respecting others, and setting appropriate boundaries.
A kindergarten-age child should all ready know the following information:
- Correct terms for sexual body parts
- The concepts of “maleness” and “femaleness”
- Their bodies belong to them and they have a right to say “no” to unwanted touch
- How to talk about body parts without feeling like they are naughty
- Trusted adults can answer questions about their bodies
- Talking about their bodies and private parts should be done during private times at home
- God made their bodies and wants them to take care of their bodies
Sex education begins long before a child enters kindergarten. While I certainly don’t believe we should teach young children graphic information about STDs, pregnancy, childbirth, or sexual techniques or acts, we should help them develop a foundation for healthy adult sexual relationships by modeling healthy adult relationships, teaching them how to stop inappropriate touching, and how to talk about their body parts without feeling embarrassed or ashamed.
Many media sources provide our children with unwanted and inappropriate information about sexuality. If our children are going to develop a healthy Christian perspective about sexuality, we cannot stay silent and wait until they have learned their values from the media and the public school. We have to overcome our feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness and provide age-appropriate information about their bodies and sexuality.
I agree with you and would want to make the most of my time left. I would also want to leave with no regrets.
I would appreciate our linking to each other’s websites if that’s ok with you!
Donna
It was so interesting story I am a Teacher of 3 grade in a private school in Kosova and I thing like you dear Dr.Beth we must thing about these children with these problems in their house we must help them in any way they need, I hope you understand my English language .
Key of a positive world and our future is NOT stop thinking of problems any problems of children in world because is not like you work with happy and loved child and from permisive family like you work with children with represive family , we must help them so early not to be late for them they are most important thing in this world but we must not just think but we must do that what is the best for them in practice , to be their live more easy and not so hard because how we educate them like infant or from prenatal periode they will be like these a factor in their social life and will grow their family in that atmosphere with a positive or negative influence in this wonderful world .
But I see that we make them like a robot and not like a human been we work, we dont have time for them to love to learn them how to live their life so lovely WE WORK ALL DAY but we dont think never for whom we do that money and everything for our robots , or for our lovely child …………………