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religion or media?
September 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Ok I went to my son's open house last night for school (he is in the 6th grade just for reference) we sat down and listened to his Health teacher talk which is pretty smart for the most part. My only objection is that she blames the media for the kids delusions about sexuality. and though I admit that it's a little glamorized I don't think it's the cause for the misconceptions. Actually i think the media has the idea of it mostly dead on. I blame religion on the misconceptions about sex since it's so taboo and lie to their kids about the truth.. his teacher was saying that last year a 6th grader came in and still thought a baby came out of the bellybutton or under a cabbage leaf or a stork. Now as for myself I have always been directly open about sex, even in my theist days, (no wonder I never got along with anyone at church..lol) and even now he has no ambition to have sex, but if that time did come up we have built up that bond of trust and comfort to be able to talk about it. So whats your opinion is it media or religion that is the cause for kid's misconceptions about sex?
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September 23, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Schools, I would think. Don't kids have sex education where you are? Religion is notoriously weird about sex but there's no excuse for kids thinking they came from under a cabbage leaf past a certain age. Can't really put much of the blame at religion or the media's door. Certainly not the media, fuck knows we can't go a week without hearing how society's going to the dogs, with all the sex and violence on TV.
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September 23, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Well here they start the Sex education talk at 6th grade. but my thing is if your going to lay blame lay it on the right group of people. The religious fanatics that i know were so against teaching their kids about sex, or hell even the reproductive system because they say their "holy scriptures" says its' wrong.
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September 23, 2011 at 1:25 pm
My kids in 6th grade too. Certainly it seems the norm for people to ignore age appropriate guidelines. Following those guidelines I don't see too much wrong.
Where are kids going to get bad ideas from... to me chart musicians can be pretty offensive.. to the extent that it's subliminal, when all kids want is to enjoy the things that kids exposed to innapropriate material innocently do.
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September 23, 2011 at 3:00 pm
I think kids get inaccurate info from their parents, mostly.
Seriously. A sixth grade age kid believing that babies come from a woman's bellybutton or a cabbage patch??? Shit like that can only come from their idiot 'rents.
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September 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Yes but what influenced there idiot parents? religion
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September 23, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Why is it so hard for people to tell a kid other kids come from sex? I never understood the awkardness with the whole "where do babies come from."
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September 23, 2011 at 4:21 pm
I think it's because so many parents take the route my parents did, which is to ignore the subject altogether and hope their kids will pick it up somewhere eventually.
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