Yeah, so I have no problem with being as explicit as you want with kids about sex, and definitely don’t want to demonize it or even discourage it. It’s a cool thing. They should look forward to it or at least not be afraid of finding their own approach toward it.
It’s also not some kind of mystical hoohah.
Love is not a superpower. Instinctive attachment is one of the things kids should be warned about. Ending up in its grip in ways you can’t live with or control is probably the biggest risk of sex.
The second biggest risk is probably running afoul of other people’s demands and expectations, most of which are born out of making way too big a deal out of the whole thing. What you suggest feeds that by making puberty and sex sound like much bigger issues than they have to be. There are pretty much no deals that big, actually.
You don’t get any “superpowers” at puberty. Childhood is not, for the most part, some kind of guard against having too much power, and certainly not a guard put in place purposefully by some benevolent spirit. Nor is puberty necessarily difficult in any way, and it’s possible that building it up as such could make it difficult.
And there are no fairies. There’s also no Santa Claus. Nothing ever was or ever will be magic. Adding to the list of those lies is not a win.
Not to mention the fact that by the time almost any kid reaches puberty they’ll more likely be in active rebellion against that stuff than liable to be swayed by it. Nor is it useful to openly speak through metaphors; poetic metaphors obscure and confuse much more than they help with any topic.
Yeah, so I have no problem with being as explicit as you want with kids about sex, and definitely don’t want to demonize it or even discourage it. It’s a cool thing. They should look forward to it or at least not be afraid of finding their own approach toward it.
It’s also not some kind of mystical hoohah.
Love is not a superpower. Instinctive attachment is one of the things kids should be warned about. Ending up in its grip in ways you can’t live with or control is probably the biggest risk of sex.
The second biggest risk is probably running afoul of other people’s demands and expectations, most of which are born out of making way too big a deal out of the whole thing. What you suggest feeds that by making puberty and sex sound like much bigger issues than they have to be. There are pretty much no deals that big, actually.
You don’t get any “superpowers” at puberty. Childhood is not, for the most part, some kind of guard against having too much power, and certainly not a guard put in place purposefully by some benevolent spirit. Nor is puberty necessarily difficult in any way, and it’s possible that building it up as such could make it difficult.
And there are no fairies. There’s also no Santa Claus. Nothing ever was or ever will be magic. Adding to the list of those lies is not a win.
Not to mention the fact that by the time almost any kid reaches puberty they’ll more likely be in active rebellion against that stuff than liable to be swayed by it. Nor is it useful to openly speak through metaphors; poetic metaphors obscure and confuse much more than they help with any topic.
Yes, I find it odd to introduce more confusion to kids, especially about a thing people already largely try to confuse them about.