Sex Education for Children
My daughter started to have a penchant for toy guns when she was three years of age. She could hear and
see all the boys in our neighborhood chasing one another and screaming, “Baaaang… baaaang… baaang!!!”
One day she approached me and said, “Mommy, I want a toy gun.”
My predictable answer: “Oh sorry, guns are only for boys, and you are a girl…”
The next day, she declared to me, “Mommy, I’m a boy!” I then tried to explain, “No, you’re a girl. You’re not a boy, because you don’t have a bird (Asian child’s term or euphemism for the male genital organ). See, only boys got birds, and you’ve got something else… So you’re a girl.”
“But Mommy,” she protested and continued, “The bird… The bird is flying.”
Hahahaha! Funny, isn’t it? Dr. John Clark who is an expert on Biblical Sexuality suggests, though, that as parents we need to use the exact and appropriate terms for sexual organs so as not to confuse our kids. Asians may find the terms vulgar, but they help get rid of confusion in the minds of our little ones.
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I agree, euphemisms can get confusing for kids. Thanks for this!