Sexual Health
How to carry out sex education in early childhood? Different methods of sex education for children at different stages
Child sex education is indispensable in the process of children's growth, and parents cannot ignore it just because their children are young. When providing sex education to children, the purpose and methods vary depending on the stage.
1. Infant sex education
Mainly the mother's nurturing and feeding of the child.
The contact between the mother and the child's body can increase the sensitivity of the child's nervous system and promote the differentiation and development of the child's brain. Children who have insufficient physical contact with adults will suffer varying degrees of damage to their intelligence and sexual sensitivity. A study by American animal psychologists has found that if two monkeys leave their mothers and are fed by different mothers, one is a cotton towel mother, and the other is a metal thorn mother (a fake mother monkey made of a metal thorn mother). Monkeys who grow up eating the breast milk of metal monkeys do not engage in sexual activity, exhibit withdrawal behavior, and do not socialize. Therefore, the characteristic of infant education is to meet the baby's appetite while also meeting the developmental needs of the baby's skin touch. This period generally does not exceed the age of 3.
2. Early childhood sex education
Start letting children recognize their gender and initially enter gender roles.
For example, encouraging boys to be brave and strong, encouraging girls to be gentle and sweet, loving cleanliness, and so on. In addition, boys should wear boys' clothes, and girls should wear girls' clothes. Starting from one's own likes and dislikes, the practice of female parenting for boys and male parenting for girls is extremely harmful. This may be one of the reasons why children will become homosexual in the future, or it may be a trigger for family discord in the future.
At this point, it is important to simultaneously instill preliminary sexual ethics, such as encouraging boys to love and respect women. Learn basic hygiene knowledge, such as washing hands before urinating and not stuffing sticks or other items into the holes in the urine. At this time, in order to take care of young children, parents should sleep with their children, but they must. This stage starts from weaning to the age of 6, which means that the child starts at night on their own until the evening. If a child has strong independence, when can they wake up on their own, they should be separated from bed.
3. Childhood sex education: from 6 to 10 years old.
At this point, the child has entered school for learning, and the scope of social knowledge and activities has further expanded. All eligible families should live separately from their children. At this point, children's sexual awareness further strengthens and they are unwilling to sit at the same table or walk with the opposite sex, appearing proud and proud of their own gender. At this point, do not rudely interfere with the child's psychological phenomena, and be sure. When discovering that children dislike their gender roles, it is necessary to immediately correct them in order to prevent future gender role errors. At this point, we should teach our children basic hygiene knowledge and learn to maintain sexual organ hygiene. At the same time, children should be taught how to protect themselves, encouraged to have independent tendencies, and required to have gender differences, especially educating boys to respect women. Teach children the general moral rules of male and female interaction, requiring them to have self-esteem and self-love.