Sexual Health
Four important methods for early childhood sex education are applicable to children's sex education
The mistakes children make in sex greatly reflect the failure of parents in educating their children about sex. The implementation of sex education should start from childhood and emphasize the importance of sex education. Parents should face their children's sex education with the correct mindset, and it is important to master methods that children can understand and impart sexual knowledge. Children have known from a young age that sex is something that everyone should come into contact with throughout their lives, and it is not so mysterious. Let them grow up in a normal and healthy sexual education environment.
Parents' sex education for their children is not an educational condition, but an opportunity to seize the right opportunities and instill sexual knowledge in their children. When children ask sexual questions, parents should even answer them, otherwise the accumulation of problems over time will make the problem bigger. Children have been exposed to the indoctrination of their parents' sexual knowledge since childhood, and they no longer feel mysterious and curious about sexuality. By adolescence, many children will also discuss with their parents about issues. They think this matter is no different from an exam question and can ask their parents.
When educating children, parents should pay attention to whether the children can understand the words and explanations in the process. The brain development of children at each age is different, and the understanding will be different accordingly. It is best to explain slowly by combining real-life examples. For example, for infants and young children, the initial content of sex education is to help them understand their bodies, form correct gender identity (with the same biological characteristics) and sexual role positioning, prevent sexual oppression, correctly answer various questions raised by children, and learn friendly games with heterosexual children. For example, a child may be interested in their own genitals, telling them to know their body while bathing, pointing out their reproductive organs, and giving them the correct names. The child looks at their genitals as naturally as they look at their own hair.
For children who are still in their early years, sexual education should initially focus on the emergence of humans. Let them first understand that they are the crystallization of their parents' love. This kind of answer is easy for children to accept and understand. If you discuss issues such as erections with children before the age of ten, they will feel unable to touch their minds. After entering elementary school, talk to girls about menstrual phenomena to prevent them from panicking during menstruation and even creating a dirty impression of sex. After entering middle school, parents can carefully explain to their children. Sexual activity should be between spouses and is generally divided into three stages. Marginal behavior, such as the process of holding hands, includes substantive behaviors such as hugging, kissing, and touching, also known as purposeful behavior. In this process, the second stage is the most important, and unmarried individuals should control their behavior in this step. After children become adults, in addition to educating them to avoid sexual behavior as much as possible from a moral perspective, they should also be taught how to use contraceptives such as condoms and learn to protect themselves.