Y6 sex ed

milliebear00001

LillythePink wrote: »

My dd has just recently had this - she was explaining what they had been told/taught and we couldn't believe it - they basically spent not even a quarter of the time on contraception/sex but the rest was the biology of giving birth

The nurse even had them in pairs one lying on the floor pretending to give birth while the other one pretended to get the baby out and then the afterbirth out!

How the hell that is relevent to a Y6 child is beyond me - they should be teaching them about life before giving birth ie sex/relationships/contraception etc (as has been said on earlier posts)

Mind you, when I was at school we had NOTHING not even a biology lesson on how babies are born etc - and this was a secondary school

But won't you (as the parent) be 'teaching them about life'?

j.e.j.

LillythePink wrote: »

The nurse even had them in pairs one lying on the floor pretending to give birth while the other one pretended to get the baby out and then the afterbirth out!

:eek: are you serious??

I remember watching a birthing video in first year seniors (yr 7?) and learning about reproduction in our science lesson. We weren't taught about contraception at school, that was left to our mums to teach us. I was hoping that things might have changed a bit since then!

OP The amazon book is a good idea, but I think at some stage your hubby will need to be able to chat with your son and answer questions he might have. There might be things a man can chat about with his son about that perhaps a mum wouldn't?

MegS

Thanks for all the responses, seems despite the highest number of teenage pregnancies in Europe sex education in schools is very badly lacking. Not sure about DH helping, he seems not to remember anything about puberty and his one contribution to DS asking him if we had had sex was 'oh yes once and you popped out':rotfl:

Have seen a couple of books on Amazon so will get those and then have a chat whilst pushing home the importance of contraception. DS is going to catholic senior school too so I'm not expecting anything better there. Have to say my own experience at school was the biology lesson in the last year of school but they didn't show the giving birth video as there was a girl in the class who was already pregnant and they didn't want to scare her:D

Owl

You should have had an opportunity to view the video beforehand.... although I do fasr forward some of it (the "cutsey" bits) for parents.

We cover growing up, puberty, hygiene, differences and feelings as wellas appropriatness of relationships in yr 5 with a recap in yr 6, followed by sex and birth in yr6.... and yes we cover contraception, the responsibilites and corresponding emotions of having sex and potentially having a baby (as well as ther financial implications)....... and EVERYTHING is done in mixed classes... to our minds, everyone needs to know everything......... the other sex is not a secret.....

Owl x

kingfisherblue

My Y6 son is currently learning about sex ed in a catholic school - lots of emphasis on good relationships, love and marriage. The children watched a cartoon of people having sex yesterday - parents were given the opportunity to view it, along with other materials, a few weeks ago.

I bought my son an Usborne book called the Facts of Life - it really is excellent. He can look at it on his own or with me, and it has been mostly the former so far (no surprise there!)

I encourage him to ask questions, but if he is embarrassed, I have suggested that he writes things down and passes the paper to me so that I can answer. It's worked for us. I did worry about sex ed for him, as I am a single mum, but despite his worries earlier in the year, he seems to be coping well. Some of the questions he asks are a bit embarrassing for me,though, but I don't show it - and he seems to appreciate straightforward answers given without embarrassment.

hbloomers

Hi OP. I can recommend the book mentioned on the previous page. I had a copy when I was younger and found it very useful.

I went to Catholic School as well, and my sex education mostly consisted of outside groups coming in and scaring us silly about STIs. I can't really remember anything much mentioned about contraception: they pushed waiting until marriage. Not that that worked... Off the top of my head, I can think of 10/11 girls in my year at school who had kids before 18.

building_with_lego

Steel wrote: »

You laugh, but the only sex education lessons I remember are from primary school and it was a similar gory nasty video.

To this day I can still clearly see the appalling images in my head and hear the screaming from the women giving birth when the head came out covered in blood and white stuff.

I've always wondered whether that had a bearing on my decision to not have children.

The woman's legs- akimbo position in that video had a huge bearing on my decision to have home births.

Luckily our biology teacher was pretty cool and explained that the whole sex thing was actually rather nice and we somehow got through our embarrassment as a class, though one girl was vociferously horrified and refused to watch. Why they have to show the gory kind of birth and can't show something more normal like Homebirth Diaries is beyond me.

faithcecilia

You say your child is at a Catholic school, but do you believe yourself? If so I would highly recommend this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Made-Me-Malcolm-Doney/dp/0551014768/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310078414&sr=1-4 For various reasons my own sex ed was very limited and my mother couldn't teach me much either, but this book is absolutely lovely - factual without being graphic. My parents liked it as its sensitive, talks about God being a part of all relationships, and uses proper words - apparantly the Early Learning Centre book at the time talked about 'baby-making hole and baby-making pole'!!!!!!

building_with_lego

faithcecilia wrote: »

You say your child is at a Catholic school, but do you believe yourself? If so I would highly recommend this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Made-Me-Malcolm-Doney/dp/0551014768/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310078414&sr=1-4 For various reasons my own sex ed was very limited and my mother couldn't teach me much either, but this book is absolutely lovely - factual without being graphic. My parents liked it as its sensitive, talks about God being a part of all relationships, and uses proper words - apparantly the Early Learning Centre book at the time talked about 'baby-making hole and baby-making pole'!!!!!!

:eek: :rotfl::eek: :rotfl:

faithcecilia

building_with_lego wrote: »

:eek: :rotfl::eek: :rotfl:

Yes, that was my parents response!:D:p