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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Learning sex Ed is one thing, being encouraged young kids to label their sexuality before they've even gone through puberty is another.  I consider myself fairly liberal, but I'm not comfortable with this at the middle school level at all. [/quote]

Most girls are done puberty by 6th grade.  Boys are definitely done by 8th grade.  And the great thing about this generation?  They don't label like their bigoted parents do.  They can be asexual one day, bi the next and the straight the 3rd day and no one cares, except people like you, who think there is a set time.  [/quote]

This timeline is all wrong.  There are lots of girls that dont get their period until high school.  Lots of boys don't hit their growth spurt until even junior / senior year of high school.  
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There aren't 'lots' -- the timeline you suggest are clinically delayed-onset puberty.  Speaking as someone who has kids with delayed puberty!  Someone who is that delayed has had multiple conversations with their pediatrician. It's rare.

I did talk to my kids about not liking the opposite sex doesn't mean you are gay necessarily.  Some of us just go through puberty later and find who we are attracted to later.  Dating is just not a priority either way.  I also did talk to them about not using hate language and realizing that someone who is gay didn't 'decide' to like the same sex just like they didn't decide to like the opposite sex.  It's not that complicated.  It should be part of the talk you give your kids.

Sheltering them doesn't mean they don't learn it -- it just means they learn it at school from their friends.   [/quote]

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