What is Age Appropriate Sex Education for Kindergarten?

Who Should Teach Your Child About Sex?

When this subject was brought up by Barack Obama, I decided to do a little survey. The main stream media has talked this subject out and brought in a bunch of child psychologists to explain the situation. Working at Associated Content, I have access to a tons of parents with opinions on the subject. So I ran a little thread in the forum to get some input from the local experts.

The overwhelming response was there is no proper age appropriate sex education course for kindergarten age children. There is an age appropriate way to respond the sexuality questions from kindergarteners. If they are curious, then answer their questions in an understandable manner. Attempting to teach the subject when they are not curious can cause them to become curious about the subject before they are ready.

Since kids are naturally curious there are plenty of opportunities to explain to them that privates are private. You don't go grabbing someone else's privates and someone else shouldn't be grabbing your privates. Dealing with other issues like why are girls built different that boys can be handled efficiently without bringing it up in class. Doing that would start a show and tell session in class or on the playground soon after the difference was announced. Besides, properly explaining the difference to the curious child, one on one, will lead to fairly accurate information being passed to the remainder of the class.

Parental involvement at this early age is highly encouraged, provided the parents are somewhat on the same page. Judging from the responses in the forum, mothers seem to be better suited for educating children on this subject than the fathers. While the fathers did have an idea of how to handle this type of education, most started with, "Oh My God!! He/She asked..." This lack of a poker face would indicate to the kid that there might just be something more to the story than dear old dad is telling. So dads, if you are going to try and handle your end of "The Talk, version one," plan ahead or just say, "ask your mother."