Elementary School videos about puberty

[rock022]

A school that one of my children goes to, has asked to either agree or don’t agree about my nine year old watching an educational video about puberty. I do not know much about this video and I am unable to find a reliable source review. Does anyone have any (name removed by moderator)ut on this video and is sponsor?

The video is called Just around the Corner.
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[mVitus]

What exactly are you worried might be in the video? While it was ~10 years ago and in a Catholic grade school that I had my first sex ed, I’d imagine it’s not going to be too controversial or graphic. And while I’ve never seen the video you linked, the description seemed straightforward.

 

[ForeverJoy]

What exactly are you worried might be in the video? While it was ~10 years ago and in a Catholic grade school that I had my first sex ed, I’d imagine it’s not going to be too controversial or graphic. And while I’ve never seen the video you linked, the description seemed straightforward.

With all the gender contortions, transgender, and homosexual lifestyle normalizing these days it is exceedingly naive to assume that a sex ed video in school won’t contain something that may be controversial or graphic. Better safe than sorry these days.

 

[josh987654321]

A school that one of my children goes to, has asked to either agree or don’t agree about my nine year old watching an educational video about puberty. I do not know much about this video and I am unable to find a reliable source review. Does anyone have any (name removed by moderator)ut on this video and is sponsor?

The video is called Just around the Corner.
marshmedia.com/products/just-around-the-corner-for-girls-dvd

My alarm bells would be going off, with all of the gender confusion and sexual immorality going around now days, I cannot for one minute imagine a half decent sexual ethics or video on puberty being shown at a school.

I would very much recommend selecting ‘disagree’ and teaching your children yourself. Anything that goes through the schools today on sex will be bad.

When I went to school, it was mainly contraceptives that were pushed, as that was the ideology on sex at the time, but today, it’s not only contraceptives, but also gender theory, since they must also cater for the LGBT kids too.

I hope this has helped

God Bless You

Thank you for reading
Josh

 

[josh987654321]

With all the gender contortions, transgender, and homosexual lifestyle normalizing these days it is exceedingly naive to assume that a sex ed video in school won’t contain something that may be controversial or graphic. Better safe than sorry these days.

 

[steve93]

I fail to see the necessity of this type of thing. They should just show the kids a cross-section line drawing of the reproductive systems in biology class and be done with it.

 

[heidi_storage]

I fail to see the necessity of this type of thing. They should just show the kids a cross-section line drawing of the reproductive systems in biology class and be done with it.

Well, someone needs to talk about what changes to expect during puberty, what could be a sign of health problems, and what happens during sex–but the parents ought to handle that, I think, not the school.

 

[1ke]

A school that one of my children goes to, has asked to either agree or don’t agree about my nine year old watching an educational video about puberty. I do not know much about this video and I am unable to find a reliable source review. Does anyone have any (name removed by moderator)ut on this video and is sponsor?

The video is called Just around the Corner.
marshmedia.com/products/just-around-the-corner-for-girls-dvd

Ask to preview the video in its entirety before your child is scheduled to see it.

 

[ToeInTheWater]

Well, someone needs to talk about what changes to expect during puberty, what could be a sign of health problems, and what happens during sex–but the parents ought to handle that, I think, not the school.

Well, not all parents are comfortable with such topics, and I do not think having children be completely ignorant about puberty is NOT the answer to the definite issues and problems of “comprehensive sex ed”, many get very scared and anxious about what is happening, and of course kids talk amongst themselves.

I respect parents who choose to opt out of sex education in public (or private) school, but just by being in school with other kids who didn’t opt out, their kids are going to find out what was in it, and this may not even be accurate but filtered through other kids. Even homeschooled kids can get exposed to other kids with odd notions. No way to prevent that unless the parent personally watches over every single interaction a child has with another.

AFAIK not even the Duggars do that, though they do closely supervise “courtships” it seems excursions with same-sex friends are not. And sometimes they depend on the younger kids to “chaperone” the teenage and up older kids who are courting. While I find this quite inappropriate, I also suspect they wouldn’t actually do that, without those adults with video cameras also following them around.

Ask to preview the video in its entirety before your child is scheduled to see it.

I do think this is quite reasonable, and if the school refuses your request, I’d not blame you at all for opting out.

 

[steve93]

Well, not all parents are comfortable with such topics, and I do not think having children be completely ignorant about puberty is NOT the answer to the definite issues and problems of “comprehensive sex ed”, many get very scared and anxious about what is happening, and of course kids talk amongst themselves.

I respect parents who choose to opt out of sex education in public (or private) school, but just by being in school with other kids who didn’t opt out, their kids are going to find out what was in it, and this may not even be accurate but filtered through other kids. Even homeschooled kids can get exposed to other kids with odd notions. No way to prevent that unless the parent personally watches over every single interaction a child has with another.

AFAIK not even the Duggars do that, though they do closely supervise “courtships” it seems excursions with same-sex friends are not. And sometimes they depend on the younger kids to “chaperone” the teenage and up older kids who are courting. While I find this quite inappropriate, I also suspect they wouldn’t actually do that, without those adults with video cameras also following them around.

I do think this is quite reasonable, and if the school refuses your request, I’d not blame you at all for opting out.

I was homeschooled. I haven’t molested my own *sister *or seen *prostitutes *and blamed my nonexistent *wife *for not having enough sex drive while pregnant.
That Duggar fraud needs a little “mild inappropriate touching” upside the head with a two by four.
Besides, even before your parents tell you anything, that the one thing goes in the other thing and makes babies becomes a fair assumption if you live around farm animals.

 

[ForeverJoy]

How did homeschoolers and the Duggars get dragged into this? Believe me, they are not good examples of typical homeschool families.

Sex education is a hard subject and parents should be hyper vigilant, especially these days, about what kids are learning. Sure, they’ll pick up weird, random stuff from other kids, but they always have since time immemorial. It’s our responsibility to teach them our values and truths. It’s when parents leave ALL of it up to other entities that the trouble starts. How are we going to know what the kids know/don’t know if we don’t touch base with them on a regular basis?

As with most things, it’s about relationships.

 

[Allegra]

I would be less concerned about the contents of the video and more concerned about the subsequent class discussion, followed by the even more dubious informal discussion on the busride home.

 

[Meagan34]

My oldest daughter and I actually saw this video in elementary. The school gave parents the option of having parents sit in during the time period when they would show the video. Granted it has been about about 13 years since I watched it with my daughter, but unless anything has been recently changed, it didn’t have anything controversial in it.

It was all cartoon animations and they go through explaining the onset of puberty with hair growth, body odor, and physical developments. The most controversial thing I could think of is when they show an animated girl in an anatomical forward position and they show the different physical changes girls go through (hip growth, pubic hair and under arm growth etc). Then it went on to discuss menstruation and mainly focused on ensuring girls it was normal and nothing to be afraid of. Very briefly it went through fertilization after it explained the menstrual cycle but nothing with explicit details or pictures as to how sex takes place.

So, if you have an issue with any of this, by all means opt your child out. And of course, the video we watched was from the early 2000’s to late 90’s. It it’s an updated version, I cannot provide much information as to what has been added or taken away.

Edit: There was a Q and A afterwards but in my daughter’s school parents were allowed to sit in on that as well.

 

[nodito]

I cannot for one minute imagine a half decent sexual ethics or video on puberty being shown at a school.

It was in the mid-90s for me, but we definitely saw videos on puberty at our Catholic school and there was nothing scandalous about it. They separated the boys and girls into two classrooms to watch different versions and have conversations with a male and female teacher respectively.

 

[mommy_k]

I would want to see the video first and material such as bookets.Even in Catholic school, the content may be graphic including diagrams. Alot has changed since,our older kids have had this lesson…in the mid 2000’s.

We discuss these biological changes and hormonal changes at home as,well as Catholic virtues of morality. No need for participation in this if you don’t have info.

 

[ToeInTheWater]

I would be less concerned about the contents of the video and more concerned about the subsequent class discussion, followed by the even more dubious informal discussion on the busride home.

So would you recommend the OP’s child stay at home and not go to school for the rest of the week? Since in my own experience the “dubious informal discussion” among children will continue at least that long.

Granted it was a while ago but I recall this kind of video being shown to me when I was in 5th grade and it did not discuss the sex act at all, only the puberty changes. Even back then there were cases of girls having a first period at age 9 or age 10, I think that is even more common today. Think of how terrified such a girl would be if she was totally ignorant about what menstruation was?

Of course there are risks associated with this kind of video and lesson, but there are also risks associated with keeping kids ignorant. Of course in an ideal world the parents would enlighten the children in an age appropriate manner, but many parents would rather avoid “the talk” as long as possible.

(BTW, I myself got a very quick age appropriate version of that talk when I asked my mother what her menstrual napkins were for, I think I was around 2nd grade, way before I hit puberty myself. However when it came to more gritty stuff she gave me a book to read instead.)

 

[Meagan34]

So would you recommend the OP’s child stay at home and not go to school for the rest of the week? Since in my own experience the “dubious informal discussion” among children will continue at least that long.

Granted it was a while ago but I recall this kind of video being shown to me when I was in 5th grade and it did not discuss the sex act at all, only the puberty changes. Even back then there were cases of girls having a first period at age 9 or age 10, I think that is even more common today. Think of how terrified such a girl would be if she was totally ignorant about what menstruation was?

Of course there are risks associated with this kind of video and lesson, but there are also risks associated with keeping kids ignorant. Of course in an ideal world the parents would enlighten the children in an age appropriate manner, but many parents would rather avoid “the talk” as long as possible.

(BTW, I myself got a very quick age appropriate version of that talk when I asked my mother what her menstrual napkins were for, I think I was around 2nd grade, way before I hit puberty myself. However when it came to more gritty stuff she gave me a book to read instead.)

I actually agree. While the OP has every right to decide for himself what is too graphic and what isn’t, I don’t see how diagrams are obscene when it’s only intended to educate a child about what will physically happen to their body. They do not tie any moral aspects to it, they just simply present facts like “you will be getting a period that will cause discharge” and teach them to be prepared for it (like have feminine products in their backpack). The video never touched on human sexuality, sex itself, or genders. It simply explained what would occur during the onset of puberty. I do remember seeing the majority of the students who were taken to the library at their parent’s protest of the movie were predominately Muslim.

 

[Tarpeian_Rock]

So would you recommend the OP’s child stay at home and not go to school for the rest of the week? Since in my own experience the “dubious informal discussion” among children will continue at least that long.

Granted it was a while ago but I recall this kind of video being shown to me when I was in 5th grade and it did not discuss the sex act at all, only the puberty changes. Even back then there were cases of girls having a first period at age 9 or age 10, I think that is even more common today. Think of how terrified such a girl would be if she was totally ignorant about what menstruation was?

Of course there are risks associated with this kind of video and lesson, but there are also risks associated with keeping kids ignorant. Of course in an ideal world the parents would enlighten the children in an age appropriate manner, but many parents would rather avoid “the talk” as long as possible.

(BTW, I myself got a very quick age appropriate version of that talk when I asked my mother what her menstrual napkins were for, I think I was around 2nd grade, way before I hit puberty myself. However when it came to more gritty stuff she gave me a book to read instead.)

Good advice. Never underestimate the pervasiveness of the schoolyard “dubious informal discussions” - especially in view of the “virtual schoolyard” that is social media. Back in a much more innocent time, I learned much more about all this in the schoolyard than I did at home - and some of it was actually correct!

 

[Allegra]

So would you recommend the OP’s child stay at home and not go to school for the rest of the week? Since in my own experience the “dubious informal discussion” among children will continue at least that long.

Granted it was a while ago but I recall this kind of video being shown to me when I was in 5th grade and it did not discuss the sex act at all, only the puberty changes. Even back then there were cases of girls having a first period at age 9 or age 10, I think that is even more common today. Think of how terrified such a girl would be if she was totally ignorant about what menstruation was?

Of course there are risks associated with this kind of video and lesson, but there are also risks associated with keeping kids ignorant. Of course in an ideal world the parents would enlighten the children in an age appropriate manner, but many parents would rather avoid “the talk” as long as possible.

(BTW, I myself got a very quick age appropriate version of that talk when I asked my mother what her menstrual napkins were for, I think I was around 2nd grade, way before I hit puberty myself. However when it came to more gritty stuff she gave me a book to read instead.)

At the school where I teach, we show the video at the end of the day on a Thursday before a long weekend. By the time the kids come back, the “trauma” is basically over and the proliferation of misinformation is minimal. I highly recommend this tactic. That being said, I don’t recommend necessarily removing children from the school for the day, but being prepared to answer questions and even going so far as to discuss things with children beforehand.

 

[steve93]

If images are used, then they should be cartoon drawings done “x-ray” style for decency’s sake.