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Originally Posted by Rhoni
Sis. Newman,
This is true developmentally. Children from birth until about 7 are in the period of latency and to sexualize things before one is old enough to understand is just asking for trouble.
Blessings, Rhoni
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Wow, we're agreeing a lot on this thread!
One of my pet peeves is parents who draw their kids' attention to sexuality or give them ideas about other people having sexual thoughts at a very young age.
Truth be told,
any person who has sexual thoughts about a child or toddler is a
pedophile, and my children shouldn't even have a reference point about something like that, other than knowing that adults should never touch them in certain places.
I was working for a friend in his insurance office one day, and Sarah was with me...she was around 3 then, I think...anyway, a customer came in and sat down for a quote or to pay a bill or something, and Sarah was pretty much doing cartwheels and climbing up the sides of the desk and flip-flops and normal 3 year old things...she happened to flash her undies, and the woman spoke up and chided her
directly (not even addressing the adults in the room), and told her to put her dress down, that she shouldn't be showing her underwear.
Phew! I was steaming. Not only was it not her place to correct someone else's child, but for goodness sake, who CARES if a 3-year old flashes her training pants????? Granted, I probably should've had her in shorts or a skort, but still...It was such an
ignorant statement.
I wouldn't even credit it with "well-meaning."
Children should just be kids. There's plenty of time to learn about all the adult issues when they're older. Those sorts of comments come from puritanical thinking...
not the Bible. It's the same puritan, staid, proper thinking that places stigma on women who nurse their children past the age of 1. In Bible times it was quite common to nurse a child to age 3, or even beyond, as I understand it. The human body has been over-sexualized to the point that now children are made responsible for inappropriate adult sexuality, and the nudity of a child is seen as
overtly sexual in nature. Goodness!
*sigh*