hyper sexualized kids - Page 3

[Elizabeth2008]

oh, and i just would add that I'm all for sex education early. I don't think that's at all the same thing as exposing children to sexualized marketing and products that are far too mature for them (little girls wearing lipstick and "sexy" clothes, etc). Sex ed is about explaining, in accurate detail, the reproductive process. It's important for kids to know those things and understand their bodies. Arming them with information, including the accurate names for everything, is what can help them protect themselves from others who might want to abuse them. Sex and reproduction is not dirty and it should be approached in a matter of fact way. Also, learning about STDs and such is HARDLY the thing to make you want to go start having sex. I also think it's great when children are exposed to women breastfeeding. It shows them that breasts have a real purpose and they're not just sexual objects.

[One_Girl]

Originally Posted by dentmom3

ITA! Because saying "My DD is WAY past that" seems a lot like a veiled insult to me. It is a race to adulthood, which makes no sense to me! So, we want them to grow up faster, and then what?

I think that sometimes kids want to grow up faster to. It is hard to constantly tell your child they can't have something when they are exposed to it by their friends and fight you about it because they see their friends as grown up and you as the person who is trying to keep them a baby. I have sheltered my dd from a lot of the current icons, but once she started school she was exposed to them and the idea that Dora and Curious George are for babies and she talks about these things obsessively. She walks with her hips swishing despite me asking her if she has a hip problem when she does it and she wants to dress in clothes with too little clothing on them. I wouldn't call her hypersexualized though. I don't think that emulating adult dress and having sexual feelings are related. She is emulating her friends, the teenagers she sees walking on the street, and some adults she sees in our town. She doesn't have sexual feelings though, just a desire to be like the people around her.

If the assumption is that what kids wear and how they walk or talk dictates whether they want to have sex or not then I think it is a faulty one. Emulating grown ups and sexual feelings are not necessarily linked together. You really need to know each girl as an individual person in order to know whether this is really a true assumption. When I went through puberty at a young age everyone assumed that I was doomed to early sex, pregnancy, and dropping out without actually taking any time to get to know me. I hope that we aren't doing that with a whole generation of children just based on external things.

[Kyamo]

Originally Posted by Tigerchild

Does anyone have a link to the actual curriculum? Sometimes you can get that online from school districts in the US. Call me jaded, but I'm guessing that probably the political guy is engaging in a little hyperbole. I have heard people freaking out about that before, and when I asked for the curriculum for our district there was NOTHING of the sort.

It hadn't gone into effect yet, and now unfortunately the politicians are saying they'll scrap it, so I don't think its on the curriculum website (or at least I can't find it). But you can see the curriculum before the update here: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curricu...ry/health.html