❤❀☮☪✞Teenage Odyssey✡☯☮❀❤

“Sexual education has always been a debated, or rather neglected point in our society, but facts are facts, and the fact is it is every parent’s responsibility to educate their child about everything, especially sexual education. In a world where child abuse and molestation are becoming startlingly more common, it is the duty of every parent, and the right of every child, to inform their children of right and wrong, and the dangers abundant around them, and to us, the most biggest and most scarring dangers are those that involve our most private parts.

Though, obviously, there is no need to tell a 3-year-old about the process of reproduction, it is still that 3-year-olds right, and the duty of every parent, to introduce the child to the concepts of personal space and boundaries, boundaries which no one is allowed to invade. Another reason sexual education should be in the curriculum is because todays kids are out there; they’re at school, or online, and very vulnerable, not just to the wrong information, but to the wrong people, and in order for them to be protected, they need to know the facts of reproduction, the hormones that are causing a sudden change in their bodies and behavior, the emotional concept and connection of this, and most importantly, the consequences of intercourse, from pregnancy to Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

For those who do want to know how to exactly to explain to their child such, what to explain and when, heres a quick guide:

• When your child is 3 or 4, (old enough to comprehend what exactly you’re saying to them), explain to them the concept of personal boundaries. If you want to know how to explain, try watching this video, or better yet, have your child watch with you, and explain to them what it meant.
• When your child is 9, explain to them where babies come from, NOT how they get there. When they’re 11 [the age most children begin to start puberty], explain to them how the babies got there. If you’re not sure how, try using the Reproduction section from an encyclopedia, diagrams and what not.
• When your child is 13 or 14, tell them about the changes in their bodies caused by the hormones, and the emotions they’ll feel. Also try to explain to them the difference between love, and love, (the former being what your daughters boyfriend will use to get into her pants, and the latter being what we feel at a certain stage of our life); this may see too early to explain such a matter to them, but trust me, once us teenagers reach 15, we will NOT care what you say, so better to explain this when you have our attention. ALSO, tell your child about Sexually Transmitted Diseases, from HIV/AIDS to syphilis to whatnot. Wikipedia might be of service here.

Remember, consequences are never more worse than when we’re never aware of them.

(Source: chutkus.blogspot.com)