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Originally Posted by slave4him
Most kids who develop bad sexual habits were not educated at a young age on sexual things.
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Do you have a resource to refer me to in order to support your statement? Sex education and
sexualizing a child are
NOT the same thing.
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If that is the way you choose to raise your children then I pray Gods blessing to you. But I feel strongly that you know a tree by the fruit it bears. I wan't my kids to watch for people that might abuse them. I am not going to wait for them to be touched before they have to react.
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Obviously.
But I hope you wouldn't give your children graphic details of what those bad people might do to them, AND I hope that you would never tell them that a person might touch them inappropriately
because they were showing their belly button!!??
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When the bible says to train up a child in the way it should go. When do you start that if not when they are a child. Being a kid doesnt mean not learning about life. Thats what a kid is suppose to do is to learn. Kids brains attain much more than adults brains. The older a person gets the harder it is to teach them any thing new. So I think we should start as early as possible. This can be done in a positive manner without scaring the child.
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Then we agree. Do you actually have a disagreement with my post? LOL!
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In a perfect world you would be correct. But we don't live in a perfect world. I am telling you from many people that I know personally that their are some very evil people in this world that don't look at kids in the innocent way that me and you might. I am going to prepare my kids in the best way I can. That includes outward and inward.
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
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!
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Um...which part of the above paragraph "would be correct" if we lived in a perfect world? 
The fact that we live in an imperfect world was what I addressed. However, I will
not lay the burden for
other folks' obscene thoughts and actions on my children. Protecting them by telling them what
others should not be doing is
different from telling them to protect themselves from evil by covering their little bodies from head to toe. Come on! What pedophile would be discouraged by a full coverage shirt? That's a laughable premise.
It's one thing to teach your children to be modest because modesty is pleasing to God and respectful of others. It's quite another to tell them they HAVE to cover up so other, weird, bad evil people won't have lustful thoughts about them!