Is this standard for junior infants

Home School

Shocking stuff if true.

For teaching children parts of the body like penis, vagina and testicles?

I never learned any of that in school until 5th or 6th class. It should be left to parents at that age, and rightly so.

Not all parents are though.

And by your logic pretty much the entire junior infants curriculum can be taught at home.

Its worth pointing out that kids who know the real terms for their genitals are less likely to be abused.

Completely agree. If the OP is shocked by a sweet, doting teacher identifying physical differences between boys and girls, the OP can take their children out of the public system and keep them at home.

This will surely make their children well adjusted adults, just look at the Burke family or Josef Fritzl's. /sarcasm

Absolutely, you're a good parent, don't assume others are Gym_imposter! Some parent's don't teach their kids body parts, some parents spend more on cigarettes & booze than they do on nutritious food for their kids. Some parents smoke dope on their way to school with the kids!

I'm not back peddling, just not sure how to expand on a point that you clearly understood and is pretty self explanatory.

Yes, I agree. We bleeding hearts liberals do not want children being traumatised by parents who want to keep their children ignorant.

Back to the topic — you can annoy the creche by complaining about the teacher doing her job. What do you want to achieve? Force the creche staff to engage in meaningless interactions with you on every point of the curriculum at the expense of their main job? Or may be give them time to do their job as they see fit?

That’s fairly old school thinking. Using anatomically correct terms for body parts benefits kids body image, it removes any sense of shame or taboo around these body parts. That’s why teachers are teaching kids the proper words & most modern parenting books & literature also advises parents & caregivers to do so.

Oh FFS.

Why the hell should anatomical features not be named and identified?

They are not giving sex ed and they are not calling it a knob and pussy. This old catholic culture guilt is insane

It was probably viewed as received wisdom a couple of decades ago when it was first muted. Now it's convectional wisdom and it's accepted by both experts and pubic that it's better to use proper anatomical terms for penises, vaginas, vulvas, strotums, testicles etc… just as it is accepted to call fingers fingers and ears ears. In time they'll be saying "a kick in the balls" and "you're a pain in the gee" and all the other fun stuff!! but as young children, it's best they know the proper names for the parts of their bodies.

This is admirable, you are providing the instructions on transgender topics yourself? This is very forward thinking of you!

Didnt take long for this thread to take a turn.

Children should be taught this stuff in school, in a standardised and well thought out way. Leaving it to parents is ridiculous, you'd get all sorts of nonsense being taught.

This thread is an example of why sex education should be mandatory in schools and taken out of the hands of inexperienced, prudish and overly protective parents.