Sooner or later your little one will grow old and with the growing age comes some of the important aspects of human life. Your little one will have to understand and learn those aspects in order to lead a civilized and safe life. While there are many such aspects, the most crucial part is about sex. Many parts of the world consider this topic taboo and refrain from discussing it. The illiteracy in your little one about sex can cause major problems later.
Importance of Age-Appropriate Sex Education
- Sex education will help your child know more about the physical structure of the human body. This knowledge will also help your little one to understand the concept of birth.
- Worldwide there are surveys that show that teenagers are badly hit due to inadequate sex education. Understanding sex will help your little one to have a healthy future.
- Age Appropriate Sex Education sex education will help your child adopt healthy relationships and the future. Methods of protected sex will teach will child about diseases that are associated with the same.
- An overall harmony or the right social balance will be incorporated in your child. Any misbalance will lead to disasters in terms of your child’s socio-economic development.
Age Appropriate Sex Education
Starting to educate your child from the tender age of puberty will add advantage and make the job easier. At this age, the physical structures will develop and sex hormones will start to erupt. Start educating your child about the changes and how will the same play a role in the future. Explain about the future too!
Talking to your little one before the age of puberty will not yield anything. This might be due to the lack of sheer relevance. However, once started you should keep the education rolling at least for 5 years or so. This long period will help your little one understand the importance of growing age.
The above data is used from google for overall understanding. Couldn’t find the original source thus unable to attribute this. This data is not collated by me.
However, there are certain tips which may help you in this endeavor viz.
- Be your child’s favorite mate. Your age and experience will help a lot as you will be a great friend to your little one in explaining the whole scenario.
- Test yourself for the language and tone with which you will have a chat. Remember that it is not a college lecture which goes on for 1 hour every day.
- Do not discuss about sex with your little one in front of other people outside the family. It might be embarrassing to your teenager.
- Do not be harsh at the first go! If you have found that something has gone wrong. It might be due to a lack of the education itself.
Tips for rendering Age-Appropriate Sex Education
These tips will help you kick off well, and they are:
- Choose the right time and place to talk to your child about sex. At no point of time talk of the act! Always try to focus on the effects of the same.
- Try to strike a balance in your discussion about the good and the bad part of sex. Explain when sex will be helpful and when it may cause harm.
- Also, help your child broaden the social circle with the right balance from the opposite sex. Co-ed schools are giving this opportunity where both the genders can understand each other.
- Ask your child to know what he/she knows about sex. You can bust many myths and misunderstandings in your child.
- Give a space where your child can trust you with all the puberty secrets.
- There are various age-appropriate books available to helps kids understand via story and pictorial representation. These books also help children learn and understand effectively.
You can be the best teacher to your child and help your child from the ill-effects. Remember, if you do not take charge, someone else will and it might have a reverse effect on your child. That “someone” will be a friend who equally stands a chance to be illiterate. So, do you want to take a chance? I am sure, “no”!
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Sex education for kids is very very important, no matter whichever country we are living in, and it is a continuous process for parents to discuss this subject with their kids from time to time.
This is a very important topic and you have shared some great tips. Parents avoid sex education and it does more damage.
This is very informative and relevant. With those statistics cited by you, I hope more and more parents begin to have open conversations with their preteen and teenage children.
This is really a helpful post Rakhi
Rightly said Rakhi, educating kids at the right time is necessary and it is crucial for parents to be more open when it comes to sex-education. So, according to you, which is the right age to share this information with kids?
I can not stress the fact about how relevant and apt this topic is! thanks for highlighting all the researched data with statistics that shows how grave this situation is and how badly we need to address it before things go out of control.
This is a very crucial topic for growing children and I feel once your child hits puberty or is about to you should start conversing little by little around sex education. It’s better to give a friendly environment to your child before they seek from the internet themselves.
Amazingly informative article. It is high time that a country like India should have proper sex education beginning at the right time. It will take India definitely forward in the direction. Awesome post. Keep the good work going.
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Proper sex education at the right age can help many children from following unwanted paths in life.
Very important topic which needs to be discussed. Maybe we can learn from each other so can educate our children about sex in the best way possible. The first step towards it it is using the right names of the body parts. We have to introduce them to the genitals in the right way at a young age. Tell your kids it’s a vagina and a penis. And do not avoid any questions they have , give age appropriate answers. And as you said there are many books from which we can take guidance or can even consult an expert if we do not know the ideal way to speak about it with our kids.
Rightly said. This knowledge has to be given to kids on the right manner, at the right age by right people (parents).
Very informative post for all parents. Keep writing!
This is a really relevent topic. I infact had been thinking about starting this dialogue but didnt know how to go about it. Your post has given me a direction.
You share very important post… At the right age sex education is very important… This post is helpful to all parents