I remember when I first got my period I was really embarrassed because it happened at school and I didn’t know what to do because the only thing I knew about puberty was this stupid 5 minute video they stuck all the girls in the auditorium to watch in the 5th grade.
It didn’t help at all, I had to pretty much figure out everything on my own.
I think we need better education on that in schools.
Should schools provide kids better puberty education?
I agree. My parents never explained it to me either. When I was in 5th, I watched videos of childbirth because I wanted to know how it worked. And when I was 12 I asked my sister how you can have a baby on accident, and she explained to me how sex worked and then when I was 13 she told me what getting "turned on" is. School never gave me a thorough explanation about it, all they said was "the male sperm enters the egg" that's it. If it wasn't for my sister, I wouldn't know ANYTHING right now. So yeah, school isn't the best place on earth. :(
Not to step where I don't belong one thing I'll never understand especially with this pandemic going on if people are so uncomfortable about talking about sex reproduction and Private health why can't they have you you guys download an app that gives you an interactive video and then at the end you take a pop quiz that's what computers and machines are for to do the work that we are uncomfortable doing ourselves
People make me laugh. Teach children about their cardiovascular system, no problem. Teach children about their digestion system, go ahead. Teach children about their reproductive system, NOOOO!! We can’t have children knowing about THAT PART of their bodies. Let’s leave it to their parents. They obviously had sex at least once. They are professional at this point and should be able to answer any questions a child might have. 🙄 I specifically like the suggestion that kids get their puberty information from the internet…. because what could possible go wrong? Why are people so scared of sex education? I just don’t understand it. Girls should, at the very least, be prepared for their periods.
Yes I do think there should be better education in this department, I think the biggest problem with this is the parents attitude towards someone teaching their child about this subject. Many parents say that sex education should be more detailed until it comes to signing the permission slip for their own child. You can look at it objectively when talking about the subject in general but then when you think of your own son or daughter at the age of 11 or 12 being taught these things the fear that they will loose their innocence cones into play. It's different in different countries and I think that depends on the majority religion in that country, but that is a large factor as to if the education is vague or not.
you know in recent years with parents pushing more and more of their responsibility to schools and kindergarden, i really wonder, what a parent is even still supposed to "teach" their child... like every human being that has children went through puberty, sex, birth control and all that. why should they not educate their children about those things? i for one am quite happy that i got "properly" educate by my parents about shit. i did also have the school sex ed but that is just a shit show and i feel like you really know nothng aftert that. in fact they basically try to scare you away and traumatize you about sexuality, not "educate"...
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I agree there should be better education. Life is tough enough when you have all the accurate facts. Having support through those tough early years is important. It would be nice to have better support available at schools. Mine didn’t have it. I didn’t have a mother who felt comfortable explaining those things to me either. When I told my mother that morning her reply was “So what? You’re still going to school.” Then walked away. My sister left a package of pads in her closet when she was kicked out of the house. My closest friends were boys, and the internet was only just coming together at the time. I was on my own to figure it out also. What really made it fun was the school bathrooms were always locked due to a handful of vandals. Not fun. There are woman who have had it harder though.
In Canada we have hour long courses that start in grade school about this kinda stuff. And co-ed sex ed starting in jr. high.
You're right. The US needs better education. I'd suggest writing to your local representative and suggesting mandatory courses in sex ed. Coordinate with your peers and do a letter writing campaign, protest, or petition your school directly to put together a program.
They should give the children the option to say if they want to learn it at school or if they don't want part of it. All the kids that feel comfortable with being taught about this can go to the class and all the other kids who feel uncomfortable with it don't have to be forced into that shit. Everyone grows at their own pace.
I think it’s good to have an option like filing out a permission form because at the end of the day I think the parents are responsible on what they want and when they want to teach their child. yeah I agree though from school it didn’t make any sense at all. Nor it wasn’t taught well enough. Then again I got my period when I was 10 years old so before the puberty class XD and damn it was shit haha 😂
Personally I feel that should be the parents job and parents should be honest where babies come from and how everything works and teach them from a young age. It's less awkward for a parent to tell their child when they ask and tell them at a younger age then when they're a teenager, also when a child knows these things from a young age they would feel less awkward speaking to their parents about anything like that. My school provided sex ed class and you learnt all about that stuff but there were a lot of people in the class that had genuine questions but would be embarrassed to ask them in front of the class so the class was only somewhat effective
It does get taught in school. I learned what a period was wayy before I got mine. I knew what a period was since I was 10-11 years old. I finally got it at 12 years old
@Ayanna240 All schools are different. When I was ten the school nurse pulled all the girls in the school library to watch a video about puberty, all it talked about was pimples and body image stuff. I asked the nurse when and how I'd find out I've gotten my period, she just said I'll know when I'm older. School never taught me about periods, or child birth. My sister and my mom taught me about it and I still freaked out when I got my period for the first time. I think some schools just do stuff differently, I don't understand why tho.
You know, I hear there's this newfangled thing call "the internet." It means that literally anyone who can read can search the entire body of human knowledge on any subject at all from the comfort of their own home.
So MAYBE, what schools REALLY need to do is make sure that they provide kids with better reading skills. . .
@FoghornLeghorn99 Crazy isn't it? I love how people are always saying "they should teach XYZ in school," or "we REALLY need to focus more on (insert random thing of interest here)." And yet, somehow every year we find out that some RIDICULOUSLY high proportion of school kids can't read at grade level and can't do basic math.
Here's another idea for "education policy": sort out the basics of quality reading and math instruction FIRST before dealing with all the other special interests.
I think Society is making itself irrelevant real fast as well as the school systems fighting with each other. I've gotten more from education from a videotape then I did from an actual teacher and their crabby attitudes then again school the Bronx so yeah definitely not the best quality education.
If I was a parent I would want to teach my kids my way. I say this because sex was in fact promoted at our middle school when I was growing up. It almost seemed like a 6 month trojan commercial if you get my meaning.
Yes they should at least present an overlapping educated forum for students with the perspective that not all students are educated in that dept from parents , guardians etc.
Not for nothing Miss Apple have you seen some parents lately they don't even know how to put together a Happy Meal more or less explain the complexities of life
Kids are largely retards, and getting worse (it has to do with the amount of attention they get - or not get - as young/infants), In that sense, once ruined by parents - no education will help them.
@yofuknutz what an honest question? If you don't want one generation to struggle, next to capitalise and the third to waste it all - all the energy (mental) and all the relationships and the interactions, as if adults, from the cradle.
@yofuknutz Lol. Well, no. To grow a multifunctional brain all of its functions need activity - emotional, physical (muscles, coordination and endurance), human-to-human interaction, maths, language - and the solving of the life's real problems (be it employment, relations with neighbours, lawyers, teachers - all of it, the 'how to go through life'). Most of that, for most people, ends up in the domain of 'philosophical' - at best. For the smart ones. The dumb typically mock and demean and abuse each other - and project the same behaviours at people they interact with later on (the typical 'why should he/she be able to do that' question posed by the envious - and their actions of sabotaging anyone who - in fact - might help them live better). People of limited capacity really are their own worst enemy - and we have at least 4 billion of these, if not 6.9, walking the planet right now (with a trend of that number getting to 9.9 in the next 15 years)
I forgot to mention the sexual interactions - which the also start forming from birth. Most of a child's personality is complete by age 6, complete sexual readiness there at 12.
@yofuknutz Could be. I have not been there to visit, yet (courtesy of Covid). It really is quantity OR quality in that regard - you can have as many as you like, if you don't invest (heavily) in them - they hold no chance of reaching this global level of competitiveness that seems to be being introduced as standard/as obligatory for basic self respect.
This is a USA question most other country's are not so ashamed of everything sexual and talk to there kids like teaching them to cross the street. That's why we have so many rape's here
that's not what she said, she's talking about how schools need to provide more education over puberty because girls need to be familiar with their body changes. They also teach boys too but not so much as girls. Health is a part of science too.
So how many times have you taken up the ass tonight are you aware of your own HIV status if not get tested for today it's easy to do even a caveman can do it don't call me a dummy I was almost your father but the line was too long.
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