Plucking up the courage to talk about sex

Ed Drew  |  Features  |  helping children find faith
Date posted:  1 Jul 2021
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Plucking up the courage to  talk about sex

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What is a wet dream? I was asked this by my 11-year-old son this week.

He was looking at the syllabus that had been sent home by his year six teacher. I was into my second sentence when he interrupted me: ‘Can I have the short version?’ I was encouraged by that. He has noticed that whenever we talk about issues around biology and sex, I give full answers and ask him questions. This is partly to compensate for the huge awkwardness I inevitably feel. I think I may have over-compensated!

‘tis the season!

We are in the season of ‘Relationships Education’ in primary schools. It sits on the syllabus of our schools to be covered at some point in the year, and generally schools leave it until the summer term, when all the other mandatory topics have already been completed.

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