At what age does sex education start?
Nowadays, people are more and more aware of the importance of sex education. However, only in the stage of consciousness, many people don't know how to educate their children about sex, and at what age is the best.
In fact, domestic experts tend to agree on this issue. They think it is too late to have sex education until children reach puberty, and the earlier sex education begins, the better. People of insight put forward that "sex education should start from the age of zero, even in the mother's belly, 0-3 years old is a very critical period. As soon as a child is born, as long as his eyes can see and his ears can hear, he begins to see how his mother dresses, how he talks, what his hair looks like, how his father dresses and talks, and what is the difference between his father and his mother. In this process, children begin to know men and women, and when they are two and a half to three years old, they can confirm their gender.
However, before the age of 6, parents basically do not need to take the initiative to educate their children about sex. They can adopt the principle of answering whatever the child asks. In the process of answering, we should use some simple and easy-to-understand language to make them understand that the answer must be suitable for their age. For example, if a child asks his mother where I come from, she can answer that you were born in my belly.
How to educate children about sex?
It is urgent to educate children about sex now, but in fact most parents don't know about sex education. So many parents want to know how to educate their children about sex.
Generally speaking, sex education has four main tasks. The first is to teach children scientific sexual knowledge, including human sexual organs and reproductive system, human gender, sexual development and sexual orientation, and how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. The second is to provide education on sexual values and attitudes. The third is to teach children to protect themselves from infringement. The fourth is to cultivate children's good living habits and let them have a sound future.
From the birth of a baby, we should always pay attention to cultivating and educating children's correct sexual concepts through verbal and non-verbal channels, help children to establish correct and appropriate gender identity awareness as soon as possible, and let children realize their gender roles. When children are older, they will be curious about sex and ask some questions about sex. At this time, parents should not shy away, but answer with words and ways that children can understand and accept, so that children's curiosity can be satisfied. When children begin to understand, they should seriously tell them about sex, and clearly tell them that it is risky to intervene in sexual relations when children are not mature, and what to do when they are likely or violated. Everyone has the right and obligation to make highly responsible choices for themselves and others in sexual behavior, including living an honest and clean life, rejecting immature sexual relations and opposing sexual coercion.
Early childhood sex education reading materials
Some parents are influenced by incorrect ideas or find it difficult to talk about it, and often avoid sex education for their children. In fact, this is very dangerous. If the child's curiosity is not satisfied, it may develop into curiosity about sexual behavior, and then explore and try. Therefore, sex education for children is very important. Here, choosing the right sex education books is the foundation. So what are the sex education books for children?
The first one was written by Serena, Allen of England. This book tells the story of a small sperm becoming a baby with words and a lot of pictures. At the same time, it also contains persistent faith, deep love and humorous way of thinking, which can help the baby understand how he came from and is suitable for the whole family to think and share.
The second is the story of breasts and penis. When a child is about three years old, he will begin to understand the differences between male and female body structures. At this time, don't avoid perfunctory, just tell them the structure of girls' "breasts" and boys' "penises", and they won't be curious after understanding them.
The third is kissing children and talking about sex. The author of this book is Hu Ping, an expert on children's sex education in China. The contents of the book can help young parents correctly interpret the characteristics of their children's sexual growth and provide comprehensive, systematic and scientific methods of sex education, which is very suitable for parents who don't know how to educate their children.
The Significance of Children's Sex Education
Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to children's sex education. The reason is that sexual assault cases are frequent in recent years, and tragedies caused by ignorance of sexual knowledge emerge one after another, which makes the importance of children's sex education more and more understood. So, what is the significance of children's sex education?
Studies have shown that the key period of sex education is childhood and adolescence, and the sex education received during this period will affect a person's sexual self-awareness, gender role behavior, gender self-expression, emotional response and future sexual goal choice. Therefore, if correct sex education is carried out during this period, it will be beneficial to children's lifelong happiness. If there is no correct sex education, children will lack sexual knowledge and may have behaviors that don't love themselves in the future. Therefore, sex education in childhood is very important.
It is normal for children to be curious about sex when they reach a certain age. At this time, parents should correctly guide their children and let them know the physiological differences between men and women, such as the structure of reproductive organs. If parents don't tell their children at this time, but also keep it secret and don't give them proper sex education, it will arouse their curiosity. If the child's curiosity is not satisfied for a long time, he may want to explore on his own, or even do something wrong, and parents will regret it then.