Sex Education is Important

Sex education is a critical part of the education of our youth. Think about the energy we often put into helping our children learn such basic life skills as reading, math and writing, and consider their long term benefits. Then think about the long term benefits of a healthy, positive, and well values grounded base of knowledge in sex and sexuality. One could argue that the latter is more likely to lead to a happy and healthy life.

Key components of sex education include using anatomic terms for body parts from the earliest age, becoming comfortable with your own values and learning ways to help your child incorporate those values, and learning the basic anatomy and physiology so that you can teach this to your children.

Don’t rely on the schools to teach your children sex education. They may teach the nuts and bolts of anatomy and physiology, but you need to teach the values and expectations to your children, and reinforce the basic information.