Children are born with no feelings for or knowledge about sex. Other than the fact that young girls tend to hang with girls and young boys tend to hang with boys, little kids are unconscious of their sex. This persists even though parents cut girls and boys hair differently and dress them differently. It is not until maybe seventh grade, (14 years) that boys and girls begin to dance together, flirt with each other, date each other, and go steady with each other. This change has been known for a long long time and is referred to as puberty.
Talking to kids about sexual matters before puberty is a waste of time; the kids don’t understand the talk. Or misinterpret it to mean odd or harmful things the speaker cannot imagine. After the kids go thru puberty then talks about sexual matters become understandable to them. The kids may not grasp everything said, but at least they have a broad idea of what is being talked about.
Florida just passed a law forbidding schools to talk about sexual matters to kids in third grade and below. That’s a good start, but I would make it kids in sixth grade and below.
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