Don’t Guide Your Child
by A child needs guidance in all spheres of its development but our responsible authorities want us not to guide them on sex and let them form their own opinions. So then we should let them form their own opinions for each and every aspect of their development.
A new UK government leaflet is to advise PARENTS that they should avoid trying to convince their teenage children of the difference between right and wrong when talking to them about sex. According to the brochure, any discussion on values should be kept “light” to encourage teenagers to form their own views.
The brochure ‘Talking to Your Teenager About Sex and Relationships’ will be distributed in pharmacies in a couple of months time as part of an initiative led by Beverley Hughes, the children’s minister.
The leaflet suggests that parents should start the “big talk (on sex)” with children as young as possible, before they pick up “misinformation” from their peers in adolescence. The best way to raise the topic may be while performing mundane tasks such as “washing the car washing up, watching TV, etc”, it says.
The brochure advises: “Discussing your values with your teenagers will help them to form their own. Remember, though, that trying to convince them of what’s right and wrong may discourage them from being open.”
Furthermore, the leaflet also provides technical information on different forms of contraception, from condoms to implants, and probably will reignite the row over the government’s “value-free” approach to sex education.
The idea that the government is telling families not to pass on their values is contemptible. Every child will have to roll the ball all over again discovering and inventing everything by themselves, without benefiting from the indispensable experience of the parents.
It sounds the same like telling a kid at school that we are teaching you all this, but don’t get any benefit from any scientific advancements that have taken to date, start all over again. Establish your own opinion on the origin of life, whether the earth is round or flat, whether sun revolves around the earth or vice versa and so on endlessly.
Moral advancements are also similar to scientific because they have been time tested and refined through generations. If a child is left alone to form own opinions, half of its life will be spent on forming those opinions, through experimentation, and the rest to unlearn them (if they are wrong).
Preserving children’s innocence is a worthy goal. We would like to see more of this rather than this amoral approach where parents are encouraged to present their children with a smorgasbord of sexual activities and leave them to make up their own minds.
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