Sex and Relationships Education

I think the Government should change it - I don't want my daughter learning about sex and stuff at school before she's ready - as her Mum, its up to me to decide when she's ready to learn about sex

I think that parents need to understand that the younger children are educated about sex, the older they start having it. All the evidence suggests that this case, but yet we are very prudish about it. Surely we want to reduce teenage pregnancy and for our children to have healthy happy relationships? But yet, we never understand this....why?

I think it's important for children to understand about sex. Certainly the embarrassed talk that my mum managed to stutter out combined with biology lessons about reproduction in mice did not really help me feel confident and assured about sex!

There's a fine line isn't there? You don't want to ruin your child's innocence but at the same time, I do feel that some basic knowledge about body parts and where babies come from is of use from an early age and is something that can be built on over the years.. Our daughter is 2 but she knows body parts and that only ladies can have babies and they grow in a special bit of you called a womb (a mummy tummy). It doesn't have to be done in a clinical way nor in a manner that undermines the parent and their wishes. That said, not all parents do sex education well or even at all so there is a need to ensure that all children understand about sex and their bodies and the emotional levels that come with this. 

If it was a primary age lesson I think I would want to be involved in the lesson, either by reviewing what would be discussed or even by being asked what should be discussed. So many schools are caretakers of children of different religions and beliefs that I would think it best to take the parents and their views into account.

I want my kids to be as innocent as possible, for as long as possible!