Sexual Education Starts At Home

Sexual education is a constant development that starts from birth and continues across the developmental life span. During this process, it is crucial to lay a strong foundation for sexual health. There are many factual and non-factual opinions about the topic of sexual education. It is constantly it is being discussed and highly publicized in our society via Mass Media and some of the most influential people in our lives. Sexual education is more than sex; it’s about sexual development, reproduction, intimacy, gender role relationships and self-respect.

From my personal experience, the foundation of a healthy sexual education should start in the home. As parents, guardians, and family members we should be the key instructors in determining the basis of our child’s sexual education. On a daily basis, we as parents should take every given opportunity to teach this subject to our children. This should be taught in the beginning stages of a child’s life. We need to teach them how to respond to appropriate affection, show love, and how to respond to different types of relationships. They are taught about it when their parents speak to them, change, or choose their favorite pieces of clothing, playing with them and teaching them about their body parts. As they progress from children to teenagers to adolescents, they are consistently learning about their sexualities. Nevertheless, parents and guardians are uncomfortable talking about sex or providing necessary information about sex or sexual education. Parents and guardians are either too embarrassed when it comes to extreme topic about sex or they are afraid of providing too much information that will push their children to act on what they have been told or just too timid of not kno...

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...l parent -with in-depth sexual education classes, but this should not be their sole responsibility.

Finally, Homosexuality is another important topic that is discussed in the home but not at school in Sex Ed. Every one argues that sexual education should be taught in school, but schools are not talking about homosexuality although teenagers are exposed to homosexuals on a day-to-day basis. At this volatile stage in a teenager’s life to be shunned by peers and facility alike can devastating .Why is sex education in school such a big deal when they are afraid to talk about homosexuality. I am convinced more than ever that schools should not be responsible to teach our children about sex, it’s our responsibility. In the midst of such alarming circumstances why aren’t you persuaded that Sex Ed isn’t the schools responsibility, but yours?