Jessica Biel says she and Justin Timberlake are already starting sex education with their 2-year-old son.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/02/08/jessica-biel-starting-sex-ed-lessons-2-year-old-son/
“We’re using technical terms… we shower together, and [we say], ‘This is what I’ve got. This is what you’ve got,’” she said at the conference, according to Billboard. “We just talk about it. I know it’s really young, but I really believe that if you start this early, there’s no shame.”
The kid is just 2 years old, too early??
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scarlettm512 ago
Well, people should learn the correct anatomical names for their body parts at some point, but I don't really think that it is that big a deal if kids use other names for their body parts. With my kids, we started out when they were very young just referencing either the vagina or penis as a pee-pee. I mean, that was the bodily function associated with that part of the body that they needed to understand, so it wasn't necessary to go into all of that. We just simply stated that boy parts and girl parts look different. As they got older, we referenced them as private parts -- because we wanted to teach the kids about the fact that these are not parts that you show to people whenever you feel like it. There are appropriate places and reasons to show them, but you don't pull down your pants in public, etc. We also wanted the kids to know that these are areas that no one should be touching without having a good reason -- like when a doctor needs to examine you or if mom or dad have to help you get clean after an accident. And, you have the right to keep those parts private and to tell someone that they can't touch you there.
I really think this whole exposing kids to a complete sex education at a very early age is designed more to groom kids rather than helping them overcome any shame over body parts. When you take sex ed in middle school, you can learn the proper names if you haven't already. Until then, as long as you have a name for that body part and can communicate when something is wrong with it that might need medical care -- is it really going to harm a kid if they use the wrong term? I mean, if I go to the doctor because I have a rash on my butt crack, the doctor can still figure out what I mean even though the correct technical term for butt crack is "inter-gluteal cleft". Or if we talk about hitting our "funny bone" which is really not a bone at all but rather comes from the ulnar nerve hitting your humerus. Should we make kids stop saying they hit their funny bone because it isn't "anatomically correct terminology"?