Comments on: Sex Ed in Kindergarten?

By: Phil H

Phil H — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:24:10 +0000

PS “Tea and sugar” is a good one too.

By: Phil H

Phil H — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:23:21 +0000

Hi Jennifer

Just found this through the image on this post (which I’m planning to pinch, let me know if that’s not okay), and about to post a blog on the new sex ed proposals in the UK. Or more specifically, what it’s like now, because details of the proposals are very sketchy at the moment.

Couple of points first: I’m not sure that the UK does have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the whole of Europe, but it’s certainly the highest in Western Europe.

The problem with sex ed at the moment is that teachers are not trained to teach it – lessons are just wedged into the gaps in the curriculum. Now that the Govt are making PSHE (personal, social and health education) a compulsory part of the National Curriculum, this should change, and it should be taught by specialist teachers, more often.

It’s not just the act of sex, pregnancy and STIs that are important, but social issues around relationships and the representation of sexuality, body image, etc in the media. All of that is part of sex education.

Many girls start puberty by the age of 9 – it’s important to begin being open about this subject well before they reach that point.

Phil

By: SArita Cervantes Rendon

SArita Cervantes Rendon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:37:42 +0000

“CHINA IS A PERFECT WORD, IN MY OPINION, SO i’LL BE TEACH IT TO MY STUDENTS….THANKS!

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By: Jennifer Lance

Jennifer Lance — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:04:53 +0000

Tara, “china”, that is so cute!

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:20:59 +0000

If teachers are going to feel awkward about it and parents don’t do it (we know a lot won’t), then it will be back to the wee wee and the fu fu or whatever kids on the playground prefer. Maybe it would feel weird at first, but I hope that in time teachers would get used to the curriculum like any other new subject. On a lighter note, my two-year old son knows he has a penis, but thinks his sister and I have “china”. It’s such a perfect “precious” word that I have to force myself to correct him every time.

By: Jennifer Lance

Jennifer Lance — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:42:15 +0000

Crimson Wife, you make a good point, but our children grow up and become adults that make their own choices. Hopefully they will stick with the low carbon life they were raised with, but even so, the low carbon life of a child in the US or Europe is much larger than most children in the world. Congrats on your third child! I have a good friend with three children, and I do not judge parents for the size of their families. We have a few writers at Eco Child’s Play with more than two children. Even so, I think family size in the first world has a significant impact on the earth’s resources.

By: Crimson Wife

Crimson Wife — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:23:15 +0000

I’m sick of this implication that one has to have a small family to be “green”. I know plenty of no-child and single-child families with a WAY larger environmental impact than my soon-to-be-three-child family. The problem is not that families are having too many kids but rather that they are not making a commitment to conserving the Earth’s resources…