MSE Pregnancy Club XIV

Nicki

HypnoNu wrote: »

They've showed them that at 9?????

Yep - along with some CGI footage of a couple having sex, and an explanation of IVF as well as normal conception! Apparently the materials they use (Channel 4 documentary) are pretty standard PSHE materials for this age group in state primary schools.

csh_2

HypnoNu wrote: »

They've showed them that at 9?????

Anyone else see the Wright Stuff where the women phoned in because they had showed her 9yr old son sex ed stuffed aimed at teens? I was shocked by what she was saying and would have been outraged if my DD had seen that at 9, but had to giggle when she kept saying stiffy.:o

BeenieCat

lol, this is on my freecycle email today:

Hi im looking for a 40" tv if anyone has any lying around bit of a long shot but you never know

:rotfl:

HypnoNu

Nicki wrote: »

Yep - along with some CGI footage of a couple having sex, and an explanation of IVF as well as normal conception! Apparently the materials they use (Channel 4 documentary) are pretty standard PSHE materials for this age group in state primary schools.

really?? I must be so niave, I don't remember seeing anything like that until we were in secondary school, around 12 i think, i guess they're trying to educate kids earlier so there's less teenage pregnancies but still, am i the only one that feels a little like they're being robbed of their innocence?

Nicki

HypnoNu wrote: »

really?? I must be so niave, I don't remember seeing anything like that until we were in secondary school, around 12 i think, i guess they're trying to educate kids earlier so there's less teenage pregnancies but still, am i the only one that feels a little like they're being robbed of their innocence?

I was shocked by the materials too, but I grew up in Northern Ireland and was at school in the 1980's and had no sex education at all. As my english OH jokingly says its half past two in England but 1955 in Northern Ireland! In fact my only sex education, which was from my mother, bless her, was at the age of 18 when I was leaving home to go to university in England and she uttered the immortal line: "Be careful about drinking cider, as its potent stuff and those english boys can't be trusted" :rotfl:with no further elaboration!

I knew what the programme would contain in broad terms before he saw it, though I hadn't watched it all the way through, and as we'd already explained the basic facts of life to him, thought it would be OK for him to see it, and we could answer any other questions afterwards, but with hindsight I didn't think through carefully enough how the birth scene in particular would affect him. The rest btw he has taken effortlessly in his stride!

fairydawn

tia, hope you are well x
Lol at SS for the novel use of a sausage.
Labour vibes to those in need.
OMG I am an emotional pg lady today, any babies pics and I am off crying lol, probably dosen't help that I am tired.

elastigirl

I felt really sorry for the staff at pre-schoool yesterday. A parent who has swine flu came out and took one of her children to the primary school and the other to the pre-school my son goes too even though she has been told to stay at home and not to take the kids to school. The schools weren't told she has swine flu until she came to pick them up and thought she should mention it. So the staff has had to spend hours disinfecting everything in sight. What a silly woman she doesn't care, a letter of advice even has had to go around because of her. The staff were not to happy. She better not come out today or the parents will go mad.

I am such a tart i have been crying already watching ferns last day.

HypnoNu

Nicki wrote: »

In fact my only sex education, which was from my mother, bless her, was at the age of 18 when I was leaving home to go to university in England and she uttered the immortal line: "Be careful about drinking cider, as its potent stuff and those english boys can't be trusted" :rotfl:with no further elaboration!

this reminds me of when my mum tried to to explain periods to me when i was 9! I had seen a tampax advert so wandered into the kitchen to ask her what a period was, she went into this crazy, flustered, rambling explanation of periods and babies which made absolutely no sense. I walked away happy in the knowledge that having a period meant that you were pregnant. 3 months later (on Christmas Eve) i look down at my knickers in the toilet and my "bum" is bleeding so i walk to the bathroom door with my knickers round my ankles and call my mum. She takes one look at the blood in my pants and grabs her car keys and runs out of the house! I burst into tears because i think she's really angry at me for getting pregnant (not that i knew how that happened anyway), i sat there in the loo for 20 minutes sobbing until she came back with some pads for me.....:rotfl:

fairydawn

elastigirl wrote: »

I am such a tart i have been crying already watching ferns last day.

Sorry but that makes me feel better x

searching_me

no hope for after as im welling up to ... bloody hormones ... morning ladies and bundles x