Supporting Sexual Education Curriculum
Everywhere you turn, there is something sexual, something provocative, something that appears strange to young children. There is something that scares them, that confuses them and that they don’t understand. Living today in a modernized world where “according to data released by Statistics Canada in 2012, 83% of Canadian household had access to the internet”. This can make it difficult to hide and protect children from inappropriate things on the internet. The world that we live in is over sexualized and rather than hiding the children from things that exist, we should be providing them with the proper knowledge so that they can have a clearer understanding of life. Teaching them about sex education …show more content…
As young as grade one, children will be taught the meaning of yes and the meaning of no. They will learn that it is their body and that they are in control of it at all times and they will also be taught what inappropriate touching is. This is going to provide them with the power to protect their bodies and understand what could happen to them and how to prevent it. According to “Statistics Canada one in five sexual offences with a youth were reported to the police in 2012”. That is only 20% of all offences. The rest go unheard of because the children know what to do. This new curriculum will provide kids with the right names for body parts which will help children tell police exactly what happened. Do we all remember Amanda Todd? If she had been properly educated on the dangers of her actions, it could have possibly saved her life. This new curriculum is going help protect future kids from sexual predators like Todd’s because children will be able to properly inform police, aiding the force in catching the criminal. This new education will protect youth in more ways than one from our sexual
Everywhere you turn, there is something sexual, something provocative, something that appears strange to young children. There is something that scares them, that confuses them and that they don’t understand. Living today in a modernized world where “according to data released by Statistics Canada in 2012, 83% of Canadian household had access to the internet”. This can make it difficult to hide and protect children from inappropriate things on the internet. The world that we live in is over sexualized and rather than hiding the children from things that exist, we should be providing them with the proper knowledge so that they can have a clearer understanding of life. Teaching them about sex education …show more content…
As young as grade one, children will be taught the meaning of yes and the meaning of no. They will learn that it is their body and that they are in control of it at all times and they will also be taught what inappropriate touching is. This is going to provide them with the power to protect their bodies and understand what could happen to them and how to prevent it. According to “Statistics Canada one in five sexual offences with a youth were reported to the police in 2012”. That is only 20% of all offences. The rest go unheard of because the children know what to do. This new curriculum will provide kids with the right names for body parts which will help children tell police exactly what happened. Do we all remember Amanda Todd? If she had been properly educated on the dangers of her actions, it could have possibly saved her life. This new curriculum is going help protect future kids from sexual predators like Todd’s because children will be able to properly inform police, aiding the force in catching the criminal. This new education will protect youth in more ways than one from our sexual