Should sex education be taught in kindergarten or no? Why or why not?

[Lucy68]

Are children at this age to young to get the talk and should just enjoy being children. Or do you feel as they are old enough for this type of discussion. Would you be ok with your child's school giving them the talk or would you rather give it to them if they had questions.

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+1 y

This has been a controversial debate that's been going on for a while with some parents being pro for it while others aren't. Honestly in my opinion I don't think sex education should be taught in kindergarten and I honestly don't know who idea it was (considering some schools are teaching the curriculum to children this young), and I honestly don't know why some experts are saying this is a good idea. So I do agree with what people are saying kids this age are to young to be getting the talk.

[NamerOfStars]

Have you ever met a child? "Being a child" consists largely of confusion and fear, and those are alleviated mostly by asking seventeen billion questions a day, many of which have no real answer:
"What's that?"
"That's a goat."
"Why?"

If a child is curious about sex, they'll ask about it- if their teachers can't tell them, they'll either look into it themselves- asking the internet- or ask their friends; eventually they'll find someone who can. That's how little Johnny learns about DVDA before he learns subtraction.

I think you should have more-or-less set answers to these questions, tailored to the kid's age: a five-year-old doesn't need to know complicated details, but if they ask "what does 'gay' mean?", telling them "I can't tell you that" isn't going to satisfy any child worth their salt. People acting like there's nothing between "total silence" and "drag queen story hour" are really getting tiring.

[Jamie05rhs]

They should be taught "stranger danger" and "good touch, bad touch.". Nothing else.

[Lucy68]

That's what they taught us in the 1st grade, and while interning at a childcare center for a child psychology class while I was away at university the teachers did the same thing (the stranger danger, good touch bad touch).

[Jamie05rhs]

@Lucy68 That's good! 👍

[shaysh87]

You’re just sexualizing young children. Why would a fucking 5-6 yr old need to know about this stuff? They’re typically not even interested at all either. Let kids be kids instead of ruining their childhoods. Teaching them about sexual desire , and how the penis goes into the vagina , which is how babies are made. You’re ruining their innocence. Let the fucking kids play ball instead of playing with condoms.

Go fuck off.

We live in a country where kids are famous for failing at math. you’re better off teaching your kid some math literacy than teaching them about sex at the age of 5. You have completely the wrong priorities which is why this country is filled with kids who can’t do well in school

[honeynut-scenarios]

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[Apple1996]

I don't see why not. Kids need to be educated at a young age. My 7 and almost 5 year old both already understand how babies are made and how they get here. Things like that are important

[fireforeffect]

Then you teach them. This is none of the school systems business.

[Still-alive]

you're getting a lot of hear for this but I agree with you

[Still-alive]

Heat*

[Apple1996]

@Still-alive yeah they are just haters haha. Last thing I want is my kids thinking that a stork brings the baby. It's better to give them a little explanation of how babies are made

[matchrestore]

I think people misunderstand what sex education at that age looks like. Sex education should be a process, not a single class you take once as a teenager or a sit on the couch with mom and dad and talk about birds and bees once and be done thing.

[expdude]

Your still a kid! Answer that question after you’ve had one.

[Still-alive]

@expdude she has a few...

[Apple1996]

@expdude did you not read my opinion? I literally stated how I have a 7 and almost 5 year old... I also have a 4 month old but didn't mention him since he is still just a baby.

[Kingofkings1992]

Sex is nowhere near a 5 year olds mind. Why ruin their childhood? A 5 year olds brain isn’t developed enough to even begin to understand the matters of human anatomy.

[Still-alive]

@Kingofkings1992 "Sex is nowhere near a 5 year olds mind. Why ruin their childhood?"

its not ruining a 5 year olds brain to let him know what his organs are for.

all you gotta do is say what they are.

[Kingofkings1992]

@Still-alive I disagree, respectfully. I see no valid reason to relay this information to a 5 year old.

[Apple1996]

@Kingofkings1992 well when I was pregnant my son kept thinking that he had a baby in his belly too. Should I have really let him think that instead of correcting and telling him that boys can't carry or birth babies?

[ObscuredBeyond]

The problem everyone is having here is exactly what GLSEN and NAMBLA vowed to do in the 90s: confuse the very definition of "education."

Kids should understand enough about gestation to know when a baby is or is not possible.

However, they don't need experimental drugs, thinking they can switch genders like it's pairs of clothing, entire courses on anal sex how-to, or Democrats sniffing their hair and offering them cocaine in the bathtub. We don't need them being raised by terrorists to suck on men's dirty underwear and then run for president*. And we really shouldn't have to pay taxes to pedophiles.

We need to start convicting some of these goons. Make redefining "education" around their perversions a capital offense! Drownings, complete with millstones! Full-on Biblical punishments!

Oh, they'll reee up a storm. They'll riot. They'll blaspheme as they rape and murder your dog. But in the end, may they meet the same fate as that comrade of theirs who picked a fight with Kyle Rittenhouse!

[Prg11]

One would think some experts in the field could chime in to such topics, rather than the assorted housewives and stripper-hiring old madams dictating what should or should not be done.
We learn things from our parents/carers, by copying the entire models of behavior - but that very often copies dysfunctional stuff as well, that no one really does anything about.
Pretty much all of it is patchwork of coping mechanisms - yet, even at the most serious adult level, you will struggle to find even basic agreement on monogamy vs polygamy/open relationships.
Sex is not - according to me - a consumable product that one can get from a supermarket. But quite a number of people either openly disagree, or are closet fans of 'variety' - some from boredom, others because they copied their parents manipulative 'sex for financial or status benefits' behaviors.
I consider it a relationship thing, and not something you can just trivialise into a 'need like for food' - to be met at any 'restaurant'.
Adults need a lot more education in that field, not children (then you have Belgium where they just legalised prostitution, like we should all be buying or selling sexual services as the most common thing there is - to MacDonalds for food, and then to your favourite prostitute for 'happy hour'. To tell them it is not ok is to get spat on, basically (for limiting female rights, abortions etc - then they sit in anxiety about the chaos they create).

[Gigi2019]

Why should children be made aware of sex when they are biologically unable to deal with sex? When the time comes for kids to be aware of the birds and the bees, schools may, with the parents' permission, attend an educational film presentation in the school's auditiorium. If there is a need for one-on-one discussions and interventions between students and the school nurse, this may also be occur with parental consent. I do not believe in schools doing anything behind the back of a student's parent or guardian unless there are extremely unusual circumstances are involved that also requires intervention by social services and/or the criminal justice system.

[Gigi2019]

*students may , with parents' permission,...

[ObscuredBeyond]

Let's be real: we don't care if they know that a mom and dad make a baby. But we don't need creepers telling them to experiment with condoms - or each other. We don't need Democrats sniffing their hair. We don't need "teachers" confusing them on whether they're boy or girl, based on feelings, as if plumbing and chromosomes didn't matter - nor trying to get them killed by taking experimental drugs, which has happened at least 6,000 times!

We don't need "gender" "studies," nor Texan screwl boards forcing them to read porn. But that's what modern sex "ed" has devolved into. We're better off without it. Parents need to educate children about sex at home.

[lrina]

to be honest i think it should be the parents' job to teach their kids about sex. however, in some households this may seem unethical so in that case it should be optional. but if it were to be taught in school, i think that this should be taught when the child is 9 or 10. i'm sure that "how was i born" or "how are babies made" is a hugee question that a lot of children have, so it'd be good to answer it sooner. however, this is a complicated concept to learn so it shouldn't be taught earlier than that. this is why i believe that 9 or 10 is the most appropriate age to learn this.

[Lliam]

Absolutely not! The only purpose of sex ed at that age is to fuck up kids' heads and groom them for all the alt-sexual, pan-sexual, non-binary, gay, trans-sexual shit that the "woke" crowd endorses.

I don't think sex education should be introduced until middle school. At that point, it should just be the basics. Fuck the LGBTQ agenda. Let people take that as an elective in high school or college if they want to learn about it. Or let them figure it out on their own.

I'm all for equal rights for LGBT adults. But leave the kids alone.

As a side note, gender transition procedures should be illegal for anyone under 18 years of age. Fuck pharma and medical institution profits.

[expdude]

Can’t believe anyone says yes, but obviously 11% say yes. This would be a trait of pedafile to say yes. How on earth could someone think a 5-6 year old is ready for that talk is sick and they should t be having children. A child’s brain is in developing stages and they can not understand the subject. Why not teach them calculus? Because your have to learn basic math first. They hadn’t even gone they puberty and their telling them how a seed domes from a penis and goes up into a vagina and makes kids! Just because this is even being asked shows how screwed up people have become.

[888theGreat]

Little boys will be sticking their dicks in anything they see

[ChrisMaster69]

It needs to be appropriate to the ages being taught.

I’ve seen opinions on other sexual education type questions where people have said things like 13, 16, 18 etc,

it needs to be factual and appropriate to what young kids need to know, nothing complex or contentious, just things like differences, right and wrong, safety, even online safety.

No one wants their kids being taught some factually incorrect religious or similar rubbish.

They will be discussing shit anyhow.

surely parents on here had their kids ask really awkward ‘why has Jonny / Jenny ….’

[BluishGaze]

Well, I'm assuming it's to talk about sexuality... perhaps to teach kids to be more "tolerant" of the LGBT.

But then again, kids usually don't like to talk or think about sexuality at that age anyway... not even heterosexuality. The whole "boys are icky and girls have cooties" thing, you know. I feel like we should all know this by now... we were all once kids that went through this phase!

The fact that we're trying to get them while they're young and impressionable comes off a little... predatory.

[Guy13]

The bottomline is the Leftist and Elites in general are so power hungry that they can raise your kids best. It’s the last assets for them to take as your money, properties, and country is not your own.(US Govt/IRS).

-And parents give their child’s mind, body, emotionality over to the State now. Under the pretense of Freedom. Truth is the Leftist think just Hitler AND PARENTS ARE LETTING IT HAPPEN putting everything else before kids ULTIMATE WELFARE.
-You feed and clothe them, I will take care of their Minds. ADOLPH HITLER and USA Government and Public institutions ‼️
Search Hitler Youth and wake up 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Subarugirl]

The government wouldn't have to raise children if parents did there jobs...

[Guy13]

@Subarugirl no argument from me. Government goes after all resources including children through ease. They know people’s tendencies. School bus for instance. Recruiting and seating leftists on school boards. etc….
Not just oil and your wallet they want. Public School kids…their minds have been given over to Jungian thinking. That guy known for “everything that’s wrong becomes right”- He was a Cohort of Freud. It has been worked out in this Age.

[Mossberg500]

It's not "controversial" its Zionist/leftist propaganda that no sane person agrees with. As is the case with most things coming from the far-left, communists, neo-feminists, antifa. They're all gonna die. And I do mean ALL. Most will claim they were never affiliated in just a few years, as the pendulum is swinging away from them, and morality and sanity are becoming normal again.

The crazy lemmings will jump out of the guillotine line. Only the craziest of them will stay.

We're not satisfied with just ending lelftist and neo-feminism however. Neo-Conservatism, and Civic Nationalism is going down too. (Hear me Trump supporters)

[Subarugirl]

age appropriate sex education should be taught. A 5 year old should know the anatomically correct terminology for there gentiles and should be taught what inappropriate touching is. Sex abuse especially in young children is incredibly common and the biggest thing a predator uses to their advantage is ignorance.

[OrallyFixated]

Yes! Exactly.
Teaching them the names of their body parts is important. I never understood why the school can tell them about their eyes, their hands and their ears, but not their vaginas. Not their penises. GAWD! Don’t tell them THAT stuff. 🙄
And consent should be one of the first things they learn. Because you know the kids who are being abused at home don’t know shit about consent.
I have ask about people who are against kids learning this stuff. Is there a reason why you don’t think children should know about consent?

[Heartache0405]

No. We already live in an oversexualized society that makes women believe that sexualizing themselves for money and status is empowering when it’s the complete opposite. And men are just allowing it to happen and keeping misandry alive because they can’t not see a god damned titty -_-

[Anonymous]

Too young for sex ed. They showed us sex ed videos in 3rd grade and I was totally confused by it. I was still wetting the bed at this age and I told my mom that maybe I was just having a wet dream. I am so embarrassed about that in hindsight now that I actually know what that is.

[Yellovv]

What they show you exackly with video?

[Opinion Owner]

Nothing really, everyone was wearing clothes.

[JohnK123]

Damn lol must’ve been horrible telling ur mom that in 3rd grade

[Opinion Owner]

Not at the time. But looking back is just cringe inducing.

[JohnK123]

Haha yeah

[20yearsolder]

Honestly it's not even the school's responsibility to teach your sex education. I should be done by their parents. Do I think kindergarteners can comprehend sexual education, fuck no I don't. There are 35-year-olds out here that don't understand sex. And you want a 5-year-old to comprehend it? That's fucking hilarious and sickening at the same time

[TDDMS]

I'm tired of political activists going after kids whether it's teaching them about homosexuality, introducing them to homosexuality, Critical Race Theory, or determining which side of a political spectrum is on. Children at that age don't and cannot comprehend that shit. The people promoting this nonsense are fucked in the head and no sane person should take their advice on anything.

[RealMarek]

All young children need to know is that it is wrong for someone to touch them inappropriately. They don’t need an understanding of sex, and certainly don’t need to learn about it in the classroom. A few precocious children might come up with questions about it. If a child is asking questions about sex at school the teacher should report it to a parent and let the family handle it.

[Kaneki05]

I wonder if anyone is gonna tell that person that Sex is Science 101 biology clearly she missed something at school lmao.
And they obviously should be taught if so we would hopefully get less people who don't understand that Sex is Science. We don't need more uneducated people as these rallying people have shown.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

I can understand in school, or in high school. But in kindergarten? A big NO.

Kindergarten is the time when even their internal organs have not been developed to their full potential, and you want to teach them about organs who have not even started maturing?
Where do people get these ideas from?

IT IS A NONSENSE IDEA. Just because sex ed is a good thing, we cannot stretch it. Everything below and above its limit is a bad thing.

[DermalPunch]

At this age, I think any sexual type topics should be handle by the parents in the home. But if a kid in kindergarten is going beyond the normal identifying parts and differentiating between boy and girl then that would be concerning to me as a parent.

[CheeseMonster]

Why not? You don't have to break out the detailed slideshow and biology textbooks. Just keep it basic, like you teach everything else at that age. You learn the alphabet, not how to spell "ekphrasis" or use semicolons. Simple. Based on what I've heard of the current sex ed situation, it can't hurt.