Does this 4-year-old need to know so much about sex and AIDS?
A recent New York Time’s story unsettled my idea of the right time to talk to children about sex. Reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. writes:
A new documentary, “Please Talk to Kids About AIDS,” raises this question in a cute but discomfiting way. So far it has been seen only at film festivals and at schools of public health, including those at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. But the film will soon be available at www.eztakes.com/Talk-to-Kids. I saw it last month at a Gay Men’s Health Crisis screening for AIDS counselors.
In it, two incredibly sweet and precocious sisters — Vineeta and Sevilla Hennessey, ages 6 and 4 — accompany their parents, the filmmakers, to the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto. They interview top AIDS experts, gay activists, condom distributors, a sex toy saleswoman, a cross-dresser playing Queen Elizabeth II and an Indian transgender hijra in a sari.
Read more here. Am I too old fashioned or is this just too much information for a four-year-old?
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I’m with you. I had a hard enough time discussing such topics with my 10 1/2 year old. Call me old fashioned, naive, whatever, but I really don’t want my child growing up that fast.