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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no way I want boys and girls combined in elementary school for FLE.

There is no good reason to combine them. Each group gets the same information. It is way too [b]sensitive and embarrassing[/b] for the young kids otherwise.[/quote]

And why is that? Think about what leads to something natural being embarrassing. It doesn’t have to be. [/quote]

+1. We, as parents, were raised in households where these topics were embarrassing and not discussed. Not what we wanted for our kids. We sucked it up in our house with a DS 2 years older than a DD.  And adopted the “it’s biology” approach and encouraged discussion no separated  by genders.. And we ended up with a high school aged boy who comforted his sister when he went to make sure she was up for school and discovered she had bled through during the night and came and told us (DH and I) that she needed some help.  Who had no issues buying her pads when he ran errands if she sent him a picture of the box and picking up her BC (terrible cramps) when he gets. ADHD meds filled. And a daughter who could tell us at the dinner table she had a sucky day because of period cramps and who gave her brother first dibs at the washing machine when he appeared with a pile of sheets, in a no teasing, “you go ahead” way.

Kids take their cues from adults.  If the adults are embarrassed, they will be to. If the adults treat this as biological facts and NBD, kids will too.

Put another way— do you want your daughter to marry someone who will buy pads/ tampons on the grocery list, be sympathetic when she has a period, attend OB appointments when she is pregnant?  Do you want kids who have healthy sex loves and communicate with their partner when issues arise?  Then raise kids that way. You can’t act like this is super secret and embarrassing until high school or college and expect a kid not to internalize it. [/quote]

But this is not based on biology or clinical discussions.

This is based on the premise that there is no gender.

Fcp is taking it a step further to say that not only is there no gender, there is also no difference between the sexes.[/quote]

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