Post Date April, 15 2023
Children are sensitive to sexual issues, but do not want to teach their parents. For many years, children's sexual knowledge comes not from parents and schools, but from exchanges with peers, books and movies. The sexual knowledge obtained from these channels will often give children incorrect guidance, and many sexual psychological barriers are rooted in childhood, so sex education should start with children and adolescents, and parents should actively participate in sex education, so that children can get correct sex education from childhood.
Children are sensitive to sexual issues, but do not want to teach their parents. For many years, children's sexual knowledge comes not from parents and schools, but from exchanges with peers, books and movies. The sexual knowledge obtained from these channels will often give children incorrect guidance, and many sexual psychological barriers are rooted in childhood, so sex education should start with children and adolescents, and parents should actively participate in sex education, so that children can get correct sex education from childhood.
Psychologists believe that sex education of different contents must be carried out for children according to their age. For children before the age of 5, sex education is mainly to solve the problem of gender identity. Parents should naturally let children know their bodies before bathing and sleeping, and do not deliberately dress girls as men or boys as women, so as to prevent children from having sexual ambiguity about themselves and others from childhood and affecting their sexual orientation.
Driven by the desire to seek knowledge, children aged 5-7 are puzzled by the differences between boys and girls and ask their parents various questions. At this time, parents should answer their questions simply and clearly according to natural phenomena, and should not explain sex and reproduction in too detail. If you can't speak, your child's curiosity will not be satisfied and more mysterious.
During this period, parents of children aged 7 to 14 must carry out systematic sexual knowledge education for their children. When talking with children before puberty, we can use natural phenomena, fairy tales, and fables to insert sex education content by means of metaphor. Parents can start from the flowering and bearing of plants, and then contact the sex and reproduction. There is a saying that after that, she watered and fertilized the seeds every day, and the seeds slowly grew green leaves. In summer, small flowers grow on the leaves. When the flowers wither, they become small watermelons. The longer the small watermelons grow, the more delicious they become. At this time, they can be picked and eaten. Mother also planted a seed in her belly. With her mother's careful feeding, the seed grew slowly and became a little man ten months later. Then her mother picked him off, and there were bouncing babies in the world. Parents can also use the reproductive activities of animals as a metaphor when watching "Animal World" and other programs, and talk with children about the mating of butterflies, the breeding of goldfish, chickens, and cats, to help children understand sexual knowledge, avoid direct and detailed introduction of human sexual behavior, and avoid adverse effects on children of this age. In addition to sex knowledge education, we should also carry out sex moral education to help children control their budding sexual impulse and prevent sexual misbehavior.
