Sex education for 4 year olds

[Skybird]

It is the job of the parents in the first to enlighten their kids. The school is just a por surrogate - like for many other social resonsibilities that are parked on the school's shoulders, but should be adressed within families in the first.

A model project in Berlin sends project workers from outside the school into classes to talk with juveniles of age 14+ about sex. It is no good idea to leave that job to teachers who will meet with the same kids again afterwards - it might backfire on them, they may feel handicapped, and often they cannot imagine to what degree the youngster already know the explicit vocabularies and exotic practices. This project is said to perform much better than regular sexual education in schools.

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

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From a psychologist's perspective i must say the argument of that charity organisation is pseudo-intellectual excrement making mockery of every serious psychological theory of mental development in children we have.
Does it now.

No. I think in terms and refer more to Piaget, Badinter, Bettelheim, Psychoanalytical phase-model of developement. Curiosity is one (natural thing). Wether the mind is already fit enough to digest the facts of life "uncovered" is something very different. the right age to start thinking about talking about these things is more in the range of 12 years, I think, 10-11 at the earliest. as a rule of thumb i would say not in elementary school (Germany: schoolyears 1-4) , but with beginning of high school (5th schoolyear following).

Originally Posted by Steed

Well some years back in Germany I believe when the State bought new rules in saying OK your first child was an error and you will receive benefit but not if you have a second one. Result the teenage birth rate fell, I stand corrected if Skybird points out any thing else.

Sorry, never heared of that, and I also cannot imagine that you mean germany. such statistics would be new to me. and such sanctions by the state would have created an outcry in public that makes it difficult for me to imagine that it ever was official policy. But it's okay, maybe I simply don't know it indeed.