Sex education taught to 8 year olds assignment

That is sad, because such views are themselves transformative, turning sex from a natural and evolving topic to a dangerous threshold, making childhood sexualisation more, not less, likely. Talking about sex starts much earlier transforms the likelihoods that children will be better informed. Children use sexual terms long before they reach the age of eight (year 3). Listening recently to year 1 conversations, I overheard boys talking about “ having sex” (they mean “ cuddling”). They insult each other using terms such as “ gay”.

Discussion of sex runs through the playground discourse like Blackpool through a stick of rock: it’s just very badly formed. Talking about sex needs to start earlier so that children will not be confused at a leter time when it is learned thru their peer group. A straw poll of local school kids suggests little useful sex education is received before the age of 13. That’s two years after the average age at which girls begin their periods ??? five years after some. If you’re not told about such stuff at home, how terrifying to be eight and suddenly bleeding.