Kids nowadays....

I never thought I would say this, but kids nowadays seem so much smarter and know about things that I had no clue about when I was their age. I guess it's like this with every generation but with the media and all it's even worse, kids know way too much. I know I was told about stuff when i was already grown up and even that i had to find about it out myself.

This brings me to the topic which riles me up really badly. Sex. Kids know it all these days and from such a young age too, like my youngest sister she knew it all in graphic details from the age of 9 (and yes I'm talking about the sex). They even know the meanings of words such as BJ and HJ and i know that this is not normal.

Is it me or the world has gone loco? I can't even remember anything about being 10 knowing about such sensitive topics and the only time I knew about the basics of sex was when i was 13 or 14 years old. I was oblivious to everything around me till then.

When i was teaching primary six students last year, i caught them talking about sex. Utterly shocked, i asked each one of them ‘What do you know about sex?’ And the answers they gave me were quite surprising. I would have expected this from form 3 students, but from primary six? These are girls and boys aged 9 and 10 are they are saying things like this, not just saying but they actually know the meanings of such word. I asked them again ‘How do you all know about this?’. And the answers they gave me were hands down unanimous. Friends seemed to be the number one culprit here. One student said ‘i also found out from watching the stash of blue films that my dad kept in his ‘well-hidden’ drawers. Ahhhh.

I gave them a little telling off after that but nothing too severe, I mean what can you really say?

Gahhh...i shudder at the thought that one day my children will know about sex at a much earlier age. So i was thinking about the solutions to the matter and all i can really think off is:

1) Lock them inside a cage and prevent them from having any whatsoever contact with the outside world at all.

2) Get them home-schooled.

3) No tv, no internet, no nothing till the age of 13, no scratch that, 15. 16?

4) Don’t have kids at all, saves the pain of having to worry about this.

Sounds pretty extreme, isn’t it? But really i’m left with no other options. Don't get me wrong, i'm not at all a prude. I may actually be one of the most secular muslim you will ever meet. I just like the idea of retaining my child's innocence as long as i can. Childhood should be about toys & candies, not dildos and condoms. Geddit.

p/s: I love you my numbskull