With assaults on children far from uncommon and tales of pregnant 8/9 year olds, such things led us as a school to take this teaching to groups as young as this one. ' Below this we are not prepared to go as this is the first age where we feel there is sufficient maturity.
Unfortunately, we have to contend with all the 'poison' which has already been 'dripped into' young minds from the sick society we inhabit.
The group had learned about the technicalities' in a science lesson a week or so earlier.
The first lesson was general information - pitched in a reasonably light tone and finished with a Q&A session where I promised to answer any question put to me - which I did. Clearly, all children were delighted to have a true understanding of things of which they had had only a partial understanding previously.
This lesson was underpinned with the fact that as a Christian School we teach that 'sex is for within marriage only - but we recognise that this ideal is not always met'. It is absolutely wrong to embarrass children because of the relationships of their parents.
Lesson two looked at contraception and the Christian theme was repeated.
Lesson three looked at STDs and the Christian theme was repeated.
I am fully convinced that every child was completely satisfied with what they had received.
Our children cannot be sheltered from society - but they can be fairly and properly educated without 'condom-rolling on carrots' and amoral teaching.
Incidentally, in the many years I have done this teaching - if we remove the one girl who claimed that 'it had never happened' (????) I have had a single complaint from a Christian parent. The congratulations I have had probably run into hundreds!
