ABCNews.com Finds Sex Ed Book for 6-Year-Olds

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As we've reported at NewsBusters, the MSM have scoffed at the McCain campaign charging Sen. Barack Obama with supporting sex ed for kindergarteners. Time's Joe Klein has gone so far as to call McCain a liar for the ad, although the legislation in question would have meant 5-year-olds would be taught about STDs at the same time they were learning their ABC's.

The way the media have complained about the McCain ad, you'd get the impression the media think no one has ever seriously entertained the notion of teaching kindergarteners about sex.

Yet yesterday, ABCNews.com's World View blog reported on a controversy in the United Kingdom over an illustrated sex ed book geared to 6-year-olds. An excerpt from London-based reporter Philip Victor (emphasis mine):

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A U.K. charity has published a new sex education comic book directed specifically at 6- to 7-year-olds, which has angered parenting groups who say it’s up to families to speak to their children about sex.

The FPA, formerly the Family Planning Association, has released a new 12-page booklet titled “Let's Grow With Nisha and Joe” in which the two main characters and their dog introduce kids to the physical and emotional elements of sexual development.

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FPA Press Campaign Manager Rebecca Findlay says that sex education for children is “massively important,” and that the publication was developed in response to children’s curiosity. The group says that the target age was chosen to coincide with the English and writing development of 6- and 7-year olds.

Findlay says that “children are asking these normal questions” and that the pamphlet was developed after sending out test comics to schoolteachers and their pupils.

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With the British government currently reviewing sex education in its schools, the Family and Youth Concern released a statement saying “There is no doubt the publication is intended to put pressure on the government”

The interactive pamphlet includes coloring and cartoons, and it is written in a comic book style to engage its young audience. The work also features a section in which children are asked to label the parts of the body, including sexual organs -- a main factor in the outcry.

—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters


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Nisha asked, 'What's that Joe?'

The book would be more informative if it's a pop-up book.

Mica... You naughty

Mica...

You naughty boy...lol.

Seriously though, this is beyond the pale teaching these kids this at the age they are...for me it has been and is way past infuriating...plus I am sick of Obama lying about this...same as he has about this support of infanticide. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Isn't that just the cutest

Isn't that just the cutest thing?

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Don't worry they'll have to pull this book off the shelves now

Now that Brittain has formally adopted Sharia Law, any book store owner could be sued by a Muslim family and face the possibility of being beheaded.

 

You want change? Give me a dollar.

When I was in Kindergarten,

When I was in Kindergarten, I distinctly remember the class being split in half.  The boys stayed with the male teacher, and the girls left with a female teacher.

A diagram went up on the overhead projector, and it was a vague illustration of the male form.  There was no real detail to it besides arms, legs, a torso, and a head. The class was asked to name each part of the body as the teacher pointed at it.

Then he asked us what the correct name for our 'private part' was called.  We all giggled.  We were 6 years old.  A bunch of slang terms (this was... 1985 if memory serves) were tossed out, I think I offered the term 'weiner.'

Eventually he said that it was called a penis, that it was a private part, and that nobody was allowed to touch us down there under any circumstances.

That was the sex ed I got in Warwick, NY in 1985, in Kindergarten.  It's a private part, this is what it is called, and nobody should ever touch you there.  If someone tries, get help, don't talk to strangers, yada yada.

As far as sex ed for a kid, I'd say that's about the extent that should be taught to that age group.  Parents should obviously be given an option to opt their kid out of it, but considering that nearly 24 years later, I still remember the lesson - says a lot.

Keep It Stupid Simple.  Let them be kids for a few more years.  We didn't get into sordid detail about STD's until 8th grade, when most of us were 12/13 years old...  IMHO, that's how it should be.

The government and schools

The government and schools have no business telling my kids anything beyond reading writing and rithmitic.  My job is to educate my kids about sex and its use and morailty.  The problem comes where the slide down to real perversion taught by schools comes.  We need to not teach sex ed at all.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

I guess the question I have

I guess the question I have is this, we know that Obama is a liar and will shift his explanations of his actions to suit the occasion, but "What's wrong with the McCain operation?" 

It's a pretty simple thing to pull up a copy of the law that Obama supported and to show conclusively that despite the lies of Olbermann, Matthews, Campbell Brown and the other DNC surrogates, that the bill clearly involved teaching SEX to kindergartners!  It's pretty simple to show in a thirty second spot that the lie about the course teaching against "sexual predators and bad touching", was a late hour add on and not even remotely the focus of the bill! Why hasn't McCain done this? I swear, stuff like this is the reason I resigned (if that's the word) from the Republican party! It's like they don't really want to win. It's like they have NO CONCEPT on how to fight when the other side are a bunch of unrepentant liars! Well, you have to take your case to the people. And in this media saturated age that means commercials! It's the one thing ABC, CBS, and NBC, can't "refuse" to report! You could make a list of all of the liberal organizations like the teachers union for instance, which  has a long list of public statements supporting teaching homosexuality to children, and show how these groups are supporting Obama.  Then show that they NEVER mean anything other than "we want to teach your children our perverted disgusting sodomite friendly view of the world at an age that will INNOCULATE THEM FROM YOUR RELIGIOUS WORLD VIEW!"

Liberals make no secrets of their goals. It's one of the best things about them. You can see them coming from a long way off! Sure they may not get out in front of John Q. Public and make their statements but they do it on blogs and "mission statements" and their elitist reading lists!

But curiously, since McCain was shot down by all the liberal media over this, there's been no pushback, no followup, WHY?

Similarly, McCain has been loathe to jump on Obama's support for the murder of children that survive abortions, again a split screen ad with the tenets of the bill and Obama LYING about it would go a long way. This is one of the most character revealing votes I've EVER seen and McCains's doing nothing about it! Blogs like this one sometimes worry me, because it's like you guys (no offense) don't seem to understand the fight you're in! Most of our lamenting is about the basic lack of fairness in the media, right? But why would you expect people to be fair to you who have made no secret of the fact that THEY HATE YOU? Why would you expect comity from a man or woman who could look at images of aborted fetus' and vote or approve the continuance of such a practice? I mean, exactly what would be a "deal breaker" for you in terms of expecting liberals to like you or treat you fairly? For the eight yrs of Bush's presidency, we've pissed and moaned about the liberal media, this morning I see that the former rapper "Master P" is starting his own cable channel, what's wrong with this picture? If this uneducated satanically inspired purveyor of FILTH AND DEGRADATION, could find a way to buy his own cable channel so that his FILTH AND DEGRADATION could amass a larger  audience, what the heck is OUR problem. Why not have a NEWSBUSTERS CHANNEL? Where we show the lies of Blitzer, Matthews  and their ilk contrasted side by side with the truth? Just spitballin'. God bless.