Sex education Video

This was the real cultural shock for us that they show Sex education Video (SEV) in 5th grade itself. But I liked one thing that first the parents got to see it and only if we give permission are the kids allowed to see. The video was good, right amount of information was given, everything was shown in animation.

We put Soumya in school one year ahead of the scheduled age. And so she is always the youngest in the class. Everybody in her class has completed 11, going on 12, whereas, Soumya is going on 11. So, somehow I felt that she is too young to know about sex.But, she is more mature in her thinking than I had expected.

She came back and told me every day, what they were taught and which video they saw. I was curious to know how she would take the issue of menstutation, but she didn't give much importance to it... she was more excited when she knew the truth about 'making babies'. In a way, it is good that they get to know everything and so are not curious like we used to be at school.

I remember that we were not taught the reproduction chapter till 10th, even though we had it since 8th. In those days, the same text was used for 8th, 9th and 10th, the chapters divided, in ISCE schools.So the day we were taught that chapter, there was only one question in everyone's minds but only some spoke it out... " Did our parents do the same way to bring us into this world?" Since we never had anything taught about puberty, when we girls started our periods, we were scared, and when the boy's voices changed, we made fun of them. Good that now-a-days, the kids know everything before-hand.