How sex education didn’t work here, because of how closed up the minds of the adults are, translated…
When my son was in his first year of kindergarten, one day after school, he’d shared with me, that tomorrow, he was to bring pictures of animal moms and their babies to share with the class. I’d understood, that the kindergarten teachers were about to educate the kids on how animals reproduce and help with the continuations of the species.
In his second year of kindergarten, one evening, as I was bathing my son, he’d blurted out, “Today, the teacher told us the story of how a sperm meets up with an ovum!”, I was in awe, such a thoughtful teacher, already introduced sex ed into the kids’ daily lives. As I was wondering, how my four-year-old understood about his teacher’s lecture, my son blurted out, “But, I think, it’s, quite odd, why would Auntie Su-Jen become a fertilized egg?”, I knew then, that my son didn’t understand one bit of what his instructor told him in class that day.
not my comic…
Until his first grade year, one day, my son came home, with a soured face, asked me, “Mom, what’s ‘fuck your mother’?”, apparently, he’d had an argument with his classmate today, and I’d understood, that this, would be the time, for some parenting education, that I can’t, stall it any longer.
And so, I’d taken that volume on sex education I’d written for the younger kids in the form of a picture book, carried my son in my arms, and, I’d, read to him, through the pages. He carried that interested look on his face, very focused, and, a bit surprised too. After I’d finished reading, his first question was, “So…you’d, had sex with dad?”, I’d told him, “of course I had, otherwise, how would you come along?”
I’d continued to tell him, “The kid that said those bad things to you was insulting you. Fuck means making love, your mother means me. When someone says this, it’s telling you, to make love to your own mom, which is impossible as you know that, he’d copied the adults in cussing people out, to show his anger. But, do you think, it’s meaningful, cussing someone out like this? It totally doesn’t make sense!”
That, was the very first sex ed lesson I’d given to my son.
not my photo…
As he’d entered into the fifth grade, I’d bought the volume of sex ed illustrated series to give it to his fifth-grade class, because at this age, he should know something about this subject discussion. But as my son walked in, he’d looked awful, told me, “Mom, please, don’t give this sort of books to my class anymore. My classmates all made fun of me, said that these are the only books that I would read, that I was, sick!”
I’d felt very awful, and very regretful too, because this sort of a book, needs the teacher’s explanations, to lead the kids to read through; if it’s just placed on the bookshelves, and allowed the kids to take it down to flip through at random, based off of how Taiwan’s education don’t cover much about sex, and how making fun became the norm when it came to the subject discussion of sex, children who are naturally sensitive already scented this sort of a weird atmosphere, and, they’d, copied what their adult counterparts did, not only were they unable to get the right ideas about sex, and, they’d continued on with the prejudices about sex education.
Sex ed should start young, if you’d begun late, then, your children will start learning to mock, to make fun of sex from the internet, the television shows, as well as from their peers. They would become careless with the subject discussion of sex, and would barge in to engaging the risqué behaviors too young. It’s just, that before the kids learn what sex is, the adults too, must keep an open mind, to further their knowledge, on what SEX is!
a class of students, reading books on the variation of sex organs, not my photograph.
So, this, is something that a child encounters at school, because they’re at that age, where they are not yet mature enough, to look at the matter with their cognition, and, we all went through phases in our younger years, when we felt ashamed of the discussions of sex, so, it’s a part of the normal growth processes, but, the teachers and adults must, make sure that the students and their young get the right idea about issues of sex ed.
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