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At what age do you think sex education for children should be popularized?
In the book, she mentioned that it is best to start privacy education after the child is 4 years old. Why after the age of 4? This follows the law of children's development. Children aged 2-3 are still in the process of cognitive development of themselves and others' bodies. They need to know about other people's bodies, so as to know how their bodies are different from others'. At this stage, children will show watching others take a bath, watch others go to the toilet, and even look at each other or touch each other's genitals.

In the meantime, parents should meet their children's development needs and let them look at their bodies honestly. Generally, after two months, the children have seen enough and will not watch any more. If children are educated in physical privacy at this stage, it will hinder and destroy their cognitive physical development. Therefore, for children under 4 years old, parents should not rush to educate their children about privacy.

However, not educating children about physical privacy does not mean not educating children about safety. Children around 3 years old have entered kindergarten, and parents can tell their children: "If an adult touches your ass in kindergarten, you should come back and tell your mother." For young children, adults should not put the responsibility of protecting young children on children. Even if we tell our children to "protect themselves", they have no ability to protect themselves. Therefore, when things happen, parents can only protect their children by telling them.

After the age of 4, parents should not emphasize that children should protect their privacy after teaching their children what private parts of the body are. If parents blindly emphasize that children should protect their privacy and not be touched by others, after the child is really sexually assaulted, the child may be afraid to tell the parents the truth, because the child will think, "Mom told me not to be touched by others, and now I am touched. If I tell my mother, will she scold me? " Under such psychology, children will hide the fact that they have been sexually assaulted.