Sex ed

No it’s me too but … this is the more common way to do it now in many schools. And the kids are much more comfortable with it than we can ever begin to imagine.

I grew up in the time when you didn’t say “bra’ outloud around a boy much less menstruation! But that’s changed and I don’t know that it’s all bad. These things, bras and menstruation and such, are natural things. Things nature intended us to experience. We were almost taught to be ashamed of them in my youth. Why should we though? What’s wrong with wearing a bra?

I think in the long ago days we were actually being taught to be a little ashamed of the fact that we were women. It was society’s belief then that it was better to be a boy. Boys were better. I like to think that’s changed.

I remember once my mother left my laundry at the foot of the steps. A friend who was a boy came home from school with me and saw my underwear. What boy would care about that today? My friend saw my underwear and had to over react with embarrassment. My mother wouldn’t let my sister’s boyfriend help her pack for college because he might see her underwear….

I couldn’t take a coed health class but that these modern kids can is probably a good thing. Many of us go on and get married and then we need to not only see someone else’s underwear but wash it too.

Our sons grow up to have wives and daughters who wear menstrual pads and our daughters grow up to have husbands and sons with wet dreams. Maybe we’ll all find it easier to live with each other when we understand the other gender’s issues a little better.

Just my thoughts.

Sara, you are probably right. I also remember being somewhat ashamed of all that stuff as child- heck, I still am! I am having mixed emotions about it- I think it is probably a good thing that these kids are so much more comfortable with their bodies, and it is probably healthier for them. However, my son is feeling so comfortable with all of it that he asked to see what a man and woman looked like having sex. Of course, they don’t go that far in the Sex Ed class, and I felt like that might not have been something he would have been interested in so early if it had not been for the class. He’s 12. Anyway, I bought the new Joy of Sex and told him it was there for when he is interested. He ended up looking at it once and hasn’t asked since. I think showing him that book which is tastful but very direct was the hardest thing we have done. I told my husband that, if he actually read the book, he would know more about sex than even we do!

Here it is done as part of the health curiculm required for middle school graduation. My son was okay by this also, matter of fact he took a very mature approach to it. I was very surprised at how grown up he seemed seeing most the time he is viewed as being very immature. I guess it is a “new age.”

Our middle school students are entering with more sexual information than ever before- unless they are living without television, radios, or other media. Their casual knowledge of sex astounds those of us who are past 30 years old. They definitely need correct instruction in the biology of reproduction, and other topics usually covered in sex ed. classes. By the time they are in 7th grade, many students are already sexually active- and very few parents take the time and efforts to instruct their children in these matters at home.

Well, I’d like to think our kids have a healthier attitude about sex that we did, but they seem a little TOO relaxed to me. Already, my son is telling me that “The Joy of Sex” is “boring”…