As a child of either gender we go through our earliest years wanting one thing. We want to grow up. The thing is do we really know what growing up entails?
Therefor Most of us envision growing up to be simple, we get bigger, stronger, prettier, and smarter. But, no one informed us of the productions that will be taking place inside of our bodies. As I grew up I was lucky to have one class my 4th grade year communicating to me all the things that were soon to change in my body, and of course being the shy child I was I didn't want to listen. I remember that our parents had to sign a permission slip in order to go to this class witch frankly consisted of learning about body parts and puberty, something that I knew nothing about. The fact that a permission slip was needed for this class confused me, why was learning about my body something I needed permission from my mother to do? Sexual education is a touchy subject as some people would say, but the question is why is it?
By all accounts, Sexual education is not something that should not be rare and dreaded, in fact, it should be embraced and talked about we should be informed as young adults of the things that are coming our way in the future. Julie Metzger has been working for years to turn this "touchy subject" into something that is fun and informational. Julie started a class that women and there daughters can attend (& vise versa) the class enables parents and children to be together while learning about what's to come inside their body's and their future life choices. By making this class something parents attend with their children, it allows children to become more comfortable sharing what they are experiencing in their life with their parents without embarrassment. Metzger takes a more personal approach to the class, allowing the children to ask whatever questions they would like without their parents judging, the children shock her with the wonders and questions the have. By allowing these parents to hear what their child is thinking it builds a new sort of comfort ability between the two. The children discover that learning about their bodies and sex is not something to be afraid of but more of something to embrace. Metzger says that watching these children enter her class embarrassed and frightened is something that she would like to change. She wants to change the way children think about sex and their bodies. By ignoring this step we are harming our children not helping. Most of us grow u knowing that sex is something that should be postponed and shared with the person we want to share the rest of our lives with but the thing is how many of us know what really comes with sex? By teaching children about sex we are not promoting, we are informing. Because we all know that a teenager is more likely to want to do something that they have been told all their life they should not do, unless they know the consequences they could initially be facing. So overall we can see that Metzgers approach to sexual education is something that be further embraced, what good are we doing cheating our future generations out of the right to learn about their own body?
Therefor Most of us envision growing up to be simple, we get bigger, stronger, prettier, and smarter. But, no one informed us of the productions that will be taking place inside of our bodies. As I grew up I was lucky to have one class my 4th grade year communicating to me all the things that were soon to change in my body, and of course being the shy child I was I didn't want to listen. I remember that our parents had to sign a permission slip in order to go to this class witch frankly consisted of learning about body parts and puberty, something that I knew nothing about. The fact that a permission slip was needed for this class confused me, why was learning about my body something I needed permission from my mother to do? Sexual education is a touchy subject as some people would say, but the question is why is it?
By all accounts, Sexual education is not something that should not be rare and dreaded, in fact, it should be embraced and talked about we should be informed as young adults of the things that are coming our way in the future. Julie Metzger has been working for years to turn this "touchy subject" into something that is fun and informational. Julie started a class that women and there daughters can attend (& vise versa) the class enables parents and children to be together while learning about what's to come inside their body's and their future life choices. By making this class something parents attend with their children, it allows children to become more comfortable sharing what they are experiencing in their life with their parents without embarrassment. Metzger takes a more personal approach to the class, allowing the children to ask whatever questions they would like without their parents judging, the children shock her with the wonders and questions the have. By allowing these parents to hear what their child is thinking it builds a new sort of comfort ability between the two. The children discover that learning about their bodies and sex is not something to be afraid of but more of something to embrace. Metzger says that watching these children enter her class embarrassed and frightened is something that she would like to change. She wants to change the way children think about sex and their bodies. By ignoring this step we are harming our children not helping. Most of us grow u knowing that sex is something that should be postponed and shared with the person we want to share the rest of our lives with but the thing is how many of us know what really comes with sex? By teaching children about sex we are not promoting, we are informing. Because we all know that a teenager is more likely to want to do something that they have been told all their life they should not do, unless they know the consequences they could initially be facing. So overall we can see that Metzgers approach to sexual education is something that be further embraced, what good are we doing cheating our future generations out of the right to learn about their own body?