NY Times advocates teaching babies about sex

[Siena]

My SIL just sent me this link from the NY Times. It is about teaching sex-ed from home for children as young as infancy. I was not suprised to see someone from Planned Parenthood involved. Here are some savory paragraphs:

“Like many other parents and educators, the mothers chatting over lemonade and coffee cake in Susan Vartoukian’s toy-strewn home maintain that sex education - once and mostly still an awkward fixture of the pubescent years - should begin early. And when they say early, they mean it: preferably from birth, or if not that, from toilet training age. “Parents don’t have the luxury of silence anymore,” said Nanette Ecker, a sex educator at the Nassau County chapter of Planned Parenthood, who led the group.”…

"According to this approach, toddlers should learn words like “vulva” at the same time they learn “ears” and “toes,” benign-sounding myths about storks and seeds constitute harmful misinformation, and any child who can ask about how he or she was created is old enough for a truthful answer. “People have been told by experts that there’s a right age” to learn about intercourse, said Dr. Justin Richardson, a assistant professor of psychiatry at Cornell and Columbia medical schools and an author of “Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They’d Ask),” one of a number of recently published guides that advocates early tutelage.

“If you’re talking about how babies are made, there’s no age at which it is harmful to learn that the penis goes into the vagina,” he said. “Yes, it’s true that exposing a child to sexual stimulation is harmful. But telling a kid how babies are made is very different.”"

nytimes.com/2005/11/17/fashion/thursdaystyles/17sex.html?emc=eta1

 

[WanderAimlessly]

Does not supprise me. The Culture of Perversion wants to influence us from cradle to grave with their Moral Relativism.

PF

 

[Isilzha]

I find this really creepy.

 

[m134e5]

Let ME decide when I want MY children to know how they were made! (what I would say if I had children…)

What does planned parenthood know about parenting anyway? They’re in the business of “helping” others shirk that responsibility.

 

[jediliz]

If I were married and had children, I’d rather use the beautifully illustrated book Angel in the Waters to teach my children about where a baby comes from.

When my niece was about 2, her mommy was pregnant. She knew there was a baby growing in her mommy’s tummy, but she doesn’t need the graphic details!

This is going too far. Of course next they’ll want to teach 5 year olds how to use condoms.

 

[Crow]

m134e5:

Let ME decide when I want MY children to know how they were made! (what I would say if I had children…)

What does planned parenthood know about parenting anyway? They’re in the business of “helping” others shirk that responsibility.

I entireely agree…

However, from the clippings (I did not read the entire article), I agree with many things stated.

First let me say that I am a faithful Cahtolic, am adamently against abortion and birth control in ALL circumstances, and take to dearest heart the church’s teachings on cahstity and faithfullness in marriage.

Now with that said…

My children learned those terms about at that age… terms like ‘penis’ and the likes. This is not perversion… its the truth! And i believe they are right when they say that if we tell our children stork stories, it can backfire on the parents later on.

Teaching them the proper terms from an early age awakens respect (if taugt with a mature attitude of course). Compare a three year old who mentionis his ‘wee wee’ at the table, and one who mentions his ‘penis’. There is a difference. ‘wee wee’ sounds like a toy, and the other, sets a foundation that later can be built upon to obtain mature discussions on the matter. Its not because we’re Catholics that we don’t have to talk about sex. O nthe contrary, we should educate our children about it, and this education starts at an early age.

If you wait until your child hits puberty before starting to talk about sex, chances are you’re too late. My oldest is 11 years old now, and we are starting to talk about it more regurlarly so that when he does hit puberty, he’ll be ready (as much as possible), nad respectful of himself and others.

 

[Siena]

jediliz:

This is going too far. Of course next they’ll want to teach 5 year olds how to use condoms.

First PP needs to manufacture and market child-size condoms.

Wait- maybe thats the plan.

 

[Siena]

Crow-

I agree that parents need to teach their kids about sex, without resorting to such fables as the stork,- but there’s a right way and a wrong way to do so. To give out graphic details about conception to little children is the wrong way. This only leads to sexual experimentation at younger and younger ages, as little kids now have this “knowledge” without the wisdom and maturity to know what to do with it.

 

[fix]

How did mankind make it so long without so many “experts” foisting opinions as truth on everyone?

 

[Crow]

Siena,

I fully agree with your post.

My oldest, 11 years old if you remember, knows nothing of intercourse itself. when I asked him what he knew, his closest reply weas “Its when the bed shakes.” I tried to keep a staright face, but in reality I was relieved that he hadn’t learned antyhing offensive at school… yet.

Our discussions are centered currently around chastity, respect, and the evolution of the fetus nowadays. We haven’t linked to the mechanics of sex yet… I figure it will come soon enough.

but in all his innocence, he uses the proper terms, in their proper place. I believe that’s importante. If he is to grow up as a mature teenager regarding sex and other, we can’t have the attitude of sheltering him; he’ll find out sooner or later… I’d rather sooner, and from us.

As for showing glaring details to children or explaning it to them, that is a foregone, explicitely obvious no no.