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Originally Posted by Tenigma
What's wrong with teaching kindergarteners about age-appropriate information regarding sex, relationships, and reproduction?
Dr. Laura started talking to her son, Derek, about sex-related things VERY early on, just as part of his growing up. As a really young kid, when he was learning about body parts and about his normal bodily functions, she didn't mask words related to certain body parts, she just used normal words. And as he grew up she helped explain to him about how babies are created, and what happens during pregnancy, etc. and I believe he was probably only around 7 or 8 when he learned that some women have their pregnancies terminated (she let him come to his own realization that a woman ending a pregnancy meant she was having the "baby inside the mother" killed)... learning about sex and reproduction as part of life and growing up, as part of a whole, and understanding how integral relationships are to sex, was the way she chose to teach her son.
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As much as I can't stand Dr. Laura, I completely agree. At five and half, Indi is very well versed in sex because he showed an interest early on. He knows how people have sex, that sometimes men and women have sex, sometimes men and men, sometimes women and women, etc. We've talked about the difference between love and lust, some of what happens during puberty, etc. It's always been very casual and has come up naturally.
I hold no delusions that he'll wait until adulthood to start having sex. But I am pretty confident that when he's a teen we'll still be able to talk openly about sex and all that comes with it.
I'm wondering when the right will start thinking of these things in terms of solutions to problems and not what fits into their moral code that they somehow feel justified in inflicting on our whole society.