I’m glad my grandkids are being raised in a Christian environment, where all of the things opponents of sex education being taught in Battle Ground Public Schools don’t matter too much, as far as their own developing values. For them in fourth, first and preschool classes at Captain Strong Elementary, we teach those things at home, whenever a question arises. Will my third-grade friend get pregnant if she kisses her boyfriend? The mom’s response was to say her daughter wasn’t old enough to think those thoughts.
My grandkids are learning tolerance combined with questions. The important thing is that they are asking us (their teachers, the grown-ups they’re trying to trust) to answer those questions as they learn to think for themselves. Exposed to movies, YouTube … often too grown-up for me to let them see yet. In a sense we grown-ups forget how much children pick up just by being with grown-ups; with kids sharing all kinds of information about their family on “show and tell” day.
