When and how do you introduce birds and bees to your children? What is the right age to have 'that conversation' with your child about around masculinity? 1% get information about their around masculinity problems from their father. around masculinity is the most natural process in the world, yet we are so bad at talking about it.Children grow up ill-informed and sometimes ashamed of their bodies. Should the child lead the conversation? Should it follow the development agenda? Naturally, it starts with questions about gender differences and body changes. Toddlers are fascinated by their own bodies and the bodies of others. They like to touch themselves and we need to know how to use that to distract them and not punish them. It is very important not to associate shame with your child's body because shame affects the relationship between your child's body and yourself. As many of us know, shame is felt at an early age.
Parents need to prepare their children and schools need to introduce information and discussion about adolescence and the changes that students go through before children experience those changes. Of course, it all depends on how you do it. Student Vanita said: I was shown a Disney video about menstruation and it wasn't so good - Snow White turned red like snow - very funny video. She liked combing her hair and she was having cramps. she was hysterical. Of course now every girl we know gets their information from the internet!"
There are schools that approach this with great care and do it right. Rajani Khanduja, Counselor at St. Mary's, said, "Menstrual Hygiene Session:
Starts in 4th grade, intensively with girls. As to why boys and girls are treated differently, Rajani adds: No silence about it. Grade 9 came up with the whole assembly and pad. Unraveling the mysteries of menstruation and the whole napkin.
Her Janani, a teacher and counselor at her Shri Ram School in Gurgaon, shares her experience breaking the silence on menstruation and extending that understanding to parents. "It started with two kids running around school looking for napkins, but they couldn't find them. And in their frustration, the idea of the 'Period Box' came . They set circle times and asked questions - why aren't blocks available in the classroom? Why do we have to go to the nurses and ask for napkins? One child said, "It's a shame I have to be ashamed of it after my youth workshop ever."
Janani recounts how the girls first spent time in the circle to make sure everyone was on the same page about their strategy, and then brought the boys in the class into the discussion. They quickly organized a period box containing sanitary napkins, panty liners, cramp medicines, and more. As the boys tried to familiarize themselves with the concept, the napkins inevitably opened and they joked. The boys said the box should be in the teacher's closet, but the girls refused. They insisted on showing it to everyone. In her words, "We don't hide it. When the first set of pads was over, it was the boys who volunteered to get the next set. How about this for a student agency example?" !
That was not all. The boys wrote a note to their parents informing them of their participation in the period box project. There was no opposition from parents. At the class reunion (in the case of the 8th grade, by the way), the principal spoke to the entire staff, the students explained to the teacher why they thought it was important, and the girl said to the gym teacher who was sitting there, "Teacher, next "said. When I bring my diary, I don't say I'm fine. You have to deal with it when it's uncomfortable, but I'm not. ”
In stark contrast, when girls at another school asked for a napkin dispenser for the girls' bathroom, they said, "What next? Condom dispensers for the boys' bathroom?"
Slowly but surely, these developmental changes are beginning to occur, and are happening more quickly now. I am relieved that I now have a better understanding of the reasons for the change.
You must be logged in to post a comment.