Kissing games at my DD's school in 3rd grade - TMI warning

Well, here's a little story that recently happened to us. My DS who is 7 started asking my dad questions. Questions about sex.. what it is exactly, does it hurt, and the best one, why would a woman put a woody in her mouth.
Yep... he asked those things. MY 7-yr-old HS boy.
So, my father explained in a very scientific way what sex is, and how it's used to make babies. He explained that God created it for married adults and so it doesn't hurt.
My father pet much said he had no idea why anyone would put a "woody" in their mouth, that that is just weird. (He told me he didn't know what to do about that one, but certainly didn't feel up to being honest!)
So after about an hour or so, the conversation was over and my dad just encouraged him to ask me or DH about it whenever he had other questions. (Apparently he thought we'd get mad for some reason.)
Afterward we talked to DS, too, to see if there was anything else he had questions about. And to try to find out where he'd seen/heard about this. He wouldn't ever say where/from whom, just that he'd thought about it himself.
We decided not to push the issue, but reiterated that we are here whenever he needs more information, or wants to just talk about things. And we also told him he was not to ever discuss any of this with other children period.
So all of this is to point out that while we may try to protect our children from things, sometimes they learn things too soon. I feel a bit sad that he knows what sex is already, but there's no turning back time. I just have to be more vigilant in watching what he is exposed to and make myself available to him whenever he needs me.
I think it is very sad that children are acting like adults. However, the world encourages them to be older in every way, then expects them to behave young when it comes to sexual subjects.
How many 10-yr-olds do you know that walk around with their own phones? Have their own computers? I'm not saying that having technology is making things worse, it's just a sign symptom of the disease that's taking over our children.

Just food for thought, has anyone wondered why God would give a 13 or 15-year-old sexual urges anyway, if they're supposed to go to college, get a job, then get married where said urges would be allowed??

 

Until very recently, young ladies were ready to marry at that time. They were taught to be caretakers to a home and children and were well prepared to be a wife. Young men at this age were well on their way through an apprenticeship and already had training in working in areas that a man would need to have prior to marriage. I'm sure that the sexual urges were there and had to be reigned in; however, most young men had been trained by God-fearing fathers about the consequences and shame that would follow for themselves, and quite possibly more importantly disgracing the maiden in the process.

We are the ones who have placed such strange timelines on education and have then let those timelines dictate our ideologies. "Let them be kids while they can." "Boys will be boys." "There is plenty of time for work when they grow up." I'm glad my children are learning a good work ethic early. They are also being taught the folly of the former statements by witnessing the failure of family and friends who live by that ideology.

 

This reminds me of when my oldest son, around that age, asked me where he came from. We had a long and serious conversation - probably rather similar to what your dad had with your son. Before it was over, I asked what had prompted him to find out. He responded that he'd asked one of his friends where he came from and he said, "Pittsburgh."

OK - it's an apocryphal story, but I thought it might lighten up the thread a little.