ST's Mind Your Body recently recommended a sex education book for ages 3 to 6 years old and I managed to loan a copy from NLB. Amazing You! is a guide to body awareness catered for preschoolers. It presents clear and age-appropriate information about reproduction, birth and the difference between girls' and boys' bodies without explicit and vulgar vocabulary or illustrations. However, there were some biological terms like labia, urethra and scrotum which perhaps the older children might understand, not for Rynae now though. My girl wasn't too attracted to the contents and reviewed that she actually dislikes it! She was in full denial when I told her that her body will change as she grows and as she enters adolescence. Before I could finish the book, she already freak out and ran away!
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IMHO, kids at this age are still exploring their own identity and of course learning to love themselves as they are and accept individual differences. Perhaps this book can be introduced at a later stage say when she is about 5 to 6 years old. And of cos there will come a time when she will ask,"Where do I come from?",then sex education will come into place nicely! :)
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