Parents will become the Teachers

Sex in schools is a big issue these days. With teen pregnancy so high we need somebody to teach these young adults about sex and how to use contraceptives. There are a lot of parents that say they want to be the ones that teach their child about sex and contraceptives but what these parents don’t realize is that their children might not want to have that conversation with them. Most parents try to teach their child absence only until they are married but realistically that’s not going to happen. By the time your child have the sex conversation with you it’s to tell you that they are pregnant.

Kids these days are afraid of having the sex conversation with us parents because they feel that we will be mad at them, which in most cases, they are right. Another reason why they don’t come to us about sex can be because of religious reasons. Their family might be strongly against sex before marriage, and in some cases their family/church will disown them.

During my high school days we didn’t have Sex Education, we had Health Education. In Health Ed we talked about STDs and their symptoms, and what they can do to our body. We did not discuss contraceptives; they didn’t show us how to put on condoms or any of that useful stuff you see in movies.

If Sex Ed continues to be absence only, our children will only have us or their friends to talk to about sex. Their friends are in the same age group as them so they don’t know more, if any, than your child. We as parents need to step up, learn more information about sex, and be prepared to teach our children when the time comes.

Blue State Special