SEX EDUCATION:
This is a very delicate subject matter in every families around the world. Many foolishly allow schools to teach this delicate subject to children. This a grevious mistake which is repeated daily in the name of being trendy. Please protest at your child's school and make them stop the folly. You as a parent is the only person to teach your child about this secret.
Sex education is the formal introduction/education given to a teenager/s or a child approaching puberty stage about sex.
Most parents shy away this teaching in their homes, maybe for some reasons,mostly a wrong impression or interpretation of this subject matter.
Most of the time it could be as a result of their religious beliefs and ideologies.
But what ever be the case, the fact remains that a growing child needs proper education on sex and issues that emanates from it both the negative and positive issues.
An extremely important matter in the growing love life of a child is the proper attitude towards sex.
Majority will grow up,choose a mate and have a fulfilled marriage but this depends on a sensible sex education in home.
On the other hand, growing up in homes where there are condemnation, disgusting or even embarrassing looks when the child asks the normal questions about sex ,sexual organs in the body and life's beginnings, as if it were something terribly unclean and sinful tends to make it a personality problem. Curiosity becomes the outcome and the child will seek information elsewhere.
A child however needs to feel secure. Without security he is cheated, and a cheated child is a future delinquent. Parents who really love one another and avoid harshness naturally provides the best background for the child's security.
A nagging and domineering mother will stunt the growth of a child's life while the proud, arrogant and Caeser-like father who rules his home with dictatorial edicts will set a pattern for his child's later love life. That's why people often become like those whom they live and associate with.
Certain misinterpretation about the names of the sexual organs should be avoided. A male child once tried to inquire about what a penis is. The parents instead of telling him the truth told the poor child that it is simply an umbrella. There came a visitor in their house on a rainy day who tried to enter their house with his water-drizzling umbrella, the poor boy screamed at him saying "keep your penis outside"! You can imagine the embarrassing looks on the faces of both the parents of the boy and the visitor.
Here, such parent is expected to tell the boy the truth and advice him to be discrete about using the name.
Parents should bear in mind the importance of sex education in the lives of their teenagers and not allow them to go searching for it elsewhere or even practicalise it to the detriment of themselves.
They should device a careful and effective way of impacting this knowledge because of the nature of it's sensitivity.
When treated wrongly can damage the love life of the child. But when treated well can be a lifetime testimony.
Franca Igwilo.
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