Sex-Ed and What They Missed! *new poll*

[Magic-Froggie Sundae]

@ Breakability: "Sorry my thoughts ran ahead of me, I meant they shouldn't just teach sex as sex and leave out all the info. about how to prevent pregnancy and STDs. Sex is something to be enjoyed, but also to be respected."

[Rainbow Lei]

my thoughts on...teaching sex in schools and such....

if your not going to cover all the bases...then don't teach it at all....

and on parents that say they don't want the schools teaching them

Well then teach them yourself...my daughter is 6 and knows where babies come from....and I answer every question she has for me about because my parents didn't teach me anything and i want her to be better equipped then i was...

Kids are starting to become active at much younger ages and i think this is commonly forgotten, girls are hitting puberty younger and younger and kids more interested and they aren't teaching sex ed till what 6th grade. I think the system is flawed..and we need to be better equipping our children at a much younger age.

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@ Rainbow: "Agreed. If the parents can't stop the children having sex younger and younger (12-14), then they need to let the schools educate them FULLY. I wasn't at all educated on the finer points of puberty until after they happened to me. I felt kinda left out!"

[Rainbow Lei]

I thought I was dieing...I flipped out..... rofl I started young though...I was in the 4th grade

I really think it needs to be a collaboration but how are the schools to know hat the parents teach?
But parents are so afraid, and nervous if you don't tell your kids the ruth then how are they ever going to trust you to be honest with them when they get older about more important things then "mommy where do babies come from" they will go to friends and the internet which honestly neither can be fully trustworthy....

Right now i am having issues with families taught in school...my family isn't taught...so I have to hunt down books at the local library on different kinds of families so mykids know they aren't weird... gonk

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@ Rainbow: "Yeah, totally. I wasn't taught everything, even misguided in what my period was (i kinda freaked too). My husband taught me what sex was (how embarrassing, watching raunchy cartoons and I don't understand the jokes). He had to teach me everything practically and what he didn't teach me I learned from the internet."

[Rainbow Lei]

Oh noez....

that is embarrassing..... I looked up all my sex stuff before hand on the interwebz before I really got active because i didn't want to be embarrassed...I ended up knowing more then my first...o.o
so then it made me look like a slut....>.>

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@ Rainbow: "Awww....yeah, he taught me the basics, he liked that I was so naive and innocent. Then I started researching and he got a little weirded out!"

[Rainbow Lei]

rofl

Oh yea...I have discovered recently at the end of my marriage that I was into some crazy stuff eek scares me sometimes.

[Magic-Froggie Sundae]

Rainbow Lei

rofl

Oh yea...I have discovered recently at the end of my marriage that I was into some crazy stuff eek scares me sometimes.

"Insanity! I shared some crazy fantasies with him and I freaked him out enough for the year...."

[Rainbow Lei]

lol..... and we can all blame it on the internetz how awesome is that.

[Magic-Froggie Sundae]

"Exactly. As evil as this network is, it is also great. How pathetic, like electronics and electricity. Can't live with it, can't live without it!"

[Angippo-chan]

I am actually pretty well educated on the sex itself, but I learned it on my own at a very young age. By the time I got to my sex video in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade I knew what body parts and functions they were talking about before they even explained it. I pretty much didn't have to watch the video. Even STDs are pretty okay. I mean I know the names and what they can do, though I am far from an expert.

It's just pregnancy that I'm not very educated on, and that is because I do NOT plan on having kids for a long time. It's actually become a sort of paranoia, though I haven't stopped having sex, which makes no sense I guess. I found the websites your provided to be very helpful, particularly that video. I completely did not know some of those things! At first I didn't take this thread seriously, but there is some good info and I applaud you!

I only wanted to leave this one comment because I have to get ready to leave my room. Thank you again.

[Britomartis-the-Valiant]

Rainbow Lei

I thought I was dieing...I flipped out..... rofl I started young though...I was in the 4th grade

That happened to my great grandmother. She thought she was dying and never told anyone, but burned her stained underwear. Then one day her mother asked her why she didn't bleed like other girls. She was very relieved to find out that it was normal.
Fortunately I did get a six month warning about the bleeding, but my mother forgot to mention other discharges. I was born when my mom was around forty, so by then, my mom didn't experience much of the discharge (it decreases a lot in middle-aged and older women). For years I was convinced I had major bladder/kidney trouble, until I found out at the end of my senor year in high school from my anatomy and physiology textbook that it was normal. I was so relieved.

Very nice thread. Hopefully it will prevent other girls from thinking they are dying. Schools really need to teach more about puberty. How many fourteen year olds on a diet do you know? Do they realize that a weight gain comes naturally with puberty?

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@Britomartis-the-Valiant: "Yeah, the weight gain is normal and that is something young girls need to know (especially with all the pro-ana stuff)! When I started growing taller, I went from 95 pounds to 120 pounds very fast, then I think I fluctuated to 130 pounds and started excercising and eating right, till I leveled out at 115 pounds. And I even freaked about the discharge because it was....icky at first."

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@Angippo-chan: "I'm happy it all helped you and I hope it helps many more!"