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I'm certain children are forced to grow up too fast and too soon these days.
My 9 year old daughter is in her last week of her summer holidays, but she just blurted something out to me today when we went out for a walk.
She said Dad do you know our teacher has been recently telling us all about sex education, and wet dreams, and even had women and mens private parts on a big tv screen? Frankly I was speechless, I said how did you feel about it, she said well I felt it was inappropriate, as me and my friends was embarrassed to say the least.
Deep down I was fuming because as parents I didn't realise this was going on in children as young as 8 to 9.
My God when I was a child in the 70's, 80's, sex was never mentioned at least until big school, certainly not primary school.
Why are they forcing that onto children so young these days?
If my daughter feels its inappropriate surely it is.
Isn't it?
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While primary schools are legally obliged to include Relationships Education within their curriculum, they're NOT obliged to teach Sex Education beyond what is required by Key Stage 2 of the Science element of the National Curriculum:
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The statutory requirements of the Key Stage 2 Science curriculum for Year 5 pupils (9 to 10 year olds) simply state that:
"Pupils should be taught to . . . describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals."
The non-statutory guidance relating to that requirement says:
"Pupils should find out about different types of reproduction, including sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and sexual reproduction in animals".
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Anything which primary schools teach beyond those requirements is entirely optional and therefore likely to vary greatly between different schools. (Indeed, I'd suggest that even where schools decide to stick to the minimum requirements of the National Curriculum, the interpretation of those requirements could vary a lot between individual schools).
All pupils are likely to be embarrassed when sex ed begins, but doesn'tmean because some claim something feels inappropriate then that is what it is.
Obviously at what age the subject is broached is a matter of opinion. I was always of the opinion, even when I was in such a class, that big school was too late. I'd already found books at taught myself to the level discussed while in the last years of primary school.
However I'm fairly sure parents had been informed such classes were going to be taught beforehand.
As for growing up too fast, my concern would be that in certain aspects the young are being failed in teaching to grow up enough. Many are fine, but many others seem to have attitudes that suggest they can do what they want and everyone has to adjust to allow it.
My parents taught me in a straightforward way in stages as I was growing up simply by answering my questions honestly. There was no embarrassing chats or big revelations, no shocks.
We were the same with our children. We didn't want them believing a load of stupid playground nonsense that could get them in to trouble or give them nightmares.
I find it odd your school didn't tell you. Ours provided an open evening where the material that was going to be used was shared with the parents. This was from about 8 onwards, year five. The secondary school also informed us they were having a person in to talk about fgm. This have me the opportunity to discuss with my daughter first
Thanks Chris for a timely intervention - as a nother mod might quip - all done with super -fast googling !
No - it is clear that adolescence and adolesccent behaviour ( even in sex) has broken the 20 barrier ( 20 y of age that is !) and is heading for the thirties. ( stay at home and no house MAY contribute - [or be a confounding factor: sozza sozza far too technical for AB])
Marauding gangs of orphans fending for themselves were common in Europe 1945 and were seen by all the sericemen. It was obvious that they cd exist independently
This week there has been letters in the Times about seven and eight year old taking buses and trains in the fifties and sixties ( dont they now? nope apparently not).
In the 60s 90% of children's playtime was unsupervised. By 2000 90% of children play under the eye of an adult.
so I dont think the thesis holds
Definitely so DDIL, if they breed like rabbits or kangaroos that would be absolutely horrific
The children ae menstruating earlier - usually put down to phyto-oestrogens
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It appears that phytoestrogens, phthalates, and phenols all affect the timing of puberty, thelache, and menarche, leading to precocious puberty.
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I must say that if I saw a pregnant 9 or 10 yr old I wd inform the social, - along with the GP and antenatal clinic ( not acting in child's interests)
s1 of Children Act 1989
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