I am constantly in awe of how children are losing their innocence about the world. Maybe I see it more because I am a teacher. Children seem to know too much or more than they should about adult things.
Sex being the most common. I was told the other about a little girl I have taught by a colleague that she told another girl that she wanted to have sex with her. What? Where does that come from? This girl is nine years old. I have to ask what that child has been allowed to be witness to?
When I was nine I was climbing trees and falling out of them. I was still a kid and I played kids games. Maybe I was a bit of an innocent. I didn't even know what sex was, I knew that it took a mum and dad to make a baby, but that was it. That was all I needed to know at that age.
What is happening in our world? Why are children having their right to be children taken away from them? I know teenagers are having sex earlier and earlier now, but really, a nine year old having thoughts about having sex? Mind you, she is not the first kid I have come across who knows more about the adult world than is healthy.
Ok, I may be seen as old fashioned by some, but let kids be kids. It just seems a shame that the world is full of crap that exposing our kids to stuff that no child deserves to see. It really is a shame and to me, disturbing. Food for thought anyway.
Sex being the most common. I was told the other about a little girl I have taught by a colleague that she told another girl that she wanted to have sex with her. What? Where does that come from? This girl is nine years old. I have to ask what that child has been allowed to be witness to?
When I was nine I was climbing trees and falling out of them. I was still a kid and I played kids games. Maybe I was a bit of an innocent. I didn't even know what sex was, I knew that it took a mum and dad to make a baby, but that was it. That was all I needed to know at that age.
What is happening in our world? Why are children having their right to be children taken away from them? I know teenagers are having sex earlier and earlier now, but really, a nine year old having thoughts about having sex? Mind you, she is not the first kid I have come across who knows more about the adult world than is healthy.
Ok, I may be seen as old fashioned by some, but let kids be kids. It just seems a shame that the world is full of crap that exposing our kids to stuff that no child deserves to see. It really is a shame and to me, disturbing. Food for thought anyway.
