Some knowledge is too heavy for children...
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That answer wouldn't satisfy a curious and intelligent child, who would seek out answers from other, less trustworthy sources. My mother taught me to answer questions about sex from young children honestly, keeping the level of information shared age-appropriate, and I think this is a good policy. Five-year-olds might be satisfied with, "Babies come from mommy's tummy," while 12-year-olds will want to know more.
Yes, let kids be kids, but if they're old enough to have questions about sex, they're old enough to be given age-appropriate answers. You don't want to burden kids with sexual information they're too young to process. On the other hand, sex is a natural part of life and we don't need to make it out to be so sinful or mysterious that the subject can't be broached on any level until a child is practically grown up. We also need to teach our young children enough to know that no one is allowed to touch them inappropriately.
Kids ask questions they don’t necessarily want the answers for. Sometimes they are just looking for a quick answer (non-answer) to shut that curiousity down. I don’t think it’s right to make such a big deal about questions. Also sometimes kids ask things that they don’t even realize what they are asking because they are literally that innocent. They might be asking about a word just as a word - as a sound - and not realize the word has a sexual context around it, so you think the kid was asking about sex and really they were just asking about a sound.
And then beyond that, some good old fashioned sexual repression is valid too. This idea that every adult and by extension every child needs to be this open sexual book with deep connection to their nakedness and their genital pleasure and their physical and emotional desire is new age, fruity, crypto-Marxist bullshit and it now seems apparent it never even came from a genuine place but was just the set-up for pedophilic child sex grooming.
To me this makes a lot of sense because that whole free love hippy dippy little kids should shower naked with their parents and siblings because “the human body is beautifullllllll maaaaaaan” is a bunch of creeper nonsense. Sexual repression is super underrated and way closer to the Way than anything else, and it’s worked great to keep social degeneracy at bay for thousands of years. All you have to do is think about people YOU don’t want to sexualize to know this is true, like your boss or your parents or your teacher. If your schlubby, middle-aged, swinger boss is “so in touch with his sexuality” that he’s projecting his tantric sexual energy into everything he does - how he sits, how he eats, how he shakes your hand - everyone knows that’s not some beautiful, sex-positive, energetic knowingness of his own sexual energy, it’s just weird and fucking creepy. Most people would just want their boss to be normal and essentially sexless.
If you want your children to learn about sex from their friends, their creepy public school teachers, and the internet, then yes, don't answer their questions. Many parents prefer to guide their children on this topic, with age-appropriate information over the years, guided by the child's level of maturity and curiosity, so they can instill values along with biological facts.