Sex education for child

Why Need Sex Education?

Children and adolescents are vulnerable to misinformation about sex. If you do not get a proper sex education, they will be consumed myths about sex that is not true. Information about sex should be obtained directly from parents who have special concern for their children.

The survey results of the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN) shows that more than 60 percent of adolescents in Indonesia have premarital sex. The figures are quite alarming in the country uphold moral values ​​regarding sex. Why they could have sex before marriage? The reason for the lack of sex education to children and adolescents. When sex education can begin to do?



When Sex Education Begin?
When sex education can begin to be given to children? Some parents often answer the questions of sex with short answer: "Wait ye ​​great!". Actually the best time to give sex education is early! Sex education begins even since the child was a toddler.

If you delay giving sex education when your child begins to enter adolescence, then it was too late. Because in an age where information is easily obtained from the Internet and peers, so when their teen-age children have to know more about sex and most probably from the wrong perspective.



How Sex Education Provided?
How best to provide sex education to your children? Here are some of the stages of life and how to provide sex education in accordance with the level of your child's age.

Toddlers (1-5 years)
At this age, you can begin to embed sex education. Quite easy, is to start introducing your baby to the sex organs of his brief. No need to give a detailed explanation for the attention span of children is usually short.

For example when bathing your child, you can tell the various organs of the child's body, such as hair, head, hands, legs, abdomen, and do not forget the penis and vagina or vulva. Then explain differences in the genitalia of the opposite sex, for example, if your child has a younger brother of the opposite sex.

In addition, emphasize also that the genitals should not be paraded in vain, and also explain if there is a touch without known parents, the child should shout out loud and reporting to parents. Thus, your children can be protected against the rampant cases of sexual violence and sexual abuse against children.
Ages 3-10 years
At this age, children usually begin to actively ask about sex. For example a child will ask where he came from. Or general questions such as how the origin of the baby. The answers are simple and straightforward is usually effective.

Example # 1: "Babies come from?" You can answer from the mother's abdomen. Or you can show a mother who was pregnant and showing the location of the baby in the mother's abdomen.

Example # 2: "How do babies get out of your tummy?" You can answer the baby out of the vagina or vulva to get out of the mother's abdomen.

Example # 3: "Why do babies could exist in the stomach?" You can answer that baby in the mother's abdomen because there are seeds given by the father to the mother. The trick is father to enter the seed through the use of the penis and vagina of the mother. It's called sexual intercourse, and it should only be done by men and women who have been married.
By the age of Teens
When the child is growing, it's time you started to explain about menstruation, wet dreams, and also the physical changes that happen to a teenager. You can explain that the little girl will experience changes in breast shape, or explain the existence of growing feathers around his genitals.
Age Teens
At this time, a teenager will experience many changes sexually. You need more intensive instill good moral values ​​to him. Give a description of losses such as free sex transmitted diseases and emotional consequences.
According to research, sex education early will avoid pregnancy outside of marriage when the children grow into adolescence and later adulthood. No need to talk about sex taboo in the family. Because your child needs to get the right information from their parents, not from other people about sex.

Because a great curiosity, if the child is not provided sex education, then the child will seek answers from others, and would be more frightening if sex information obtained from peers or the Internet whose information could be wrong. Therefore, protect your children from an early age by equipping them with education about sex in a proper way.