Teach your children sex education

 
It is important to a child’s life, 75% of parents do not give their children SEX EDUCATION, this is why there is high rate of immorality in our society.
40% of the 75% do not have the knowledge of Sex Education, therefore they do not know what to teach their children about it. The other 35% are ashamed of saying the truth of the matter. When their children gets to the age when they will become inquisitive and ask several questions, such parents tell them lies about it.
Family is the first agent of social change, followed by School, Church and Peers. I think that the federal government should introduce SEX EDUCATION as a subject from primary 3 to secondary schools, Parents should teach their children, it is their duty, the bible says:

Train up a child in the way he should go,

And when he is old he will not depart from it. (Prov 22:6. NKJV)

 

I suggest that pastors also should introduce the basics of this subject to the children ministry of their various Churches. No matter what you teach a child without giving him the knowledge of this subject, he/she will make several blunders. Child without the knowledge of this topic will rely on getting the answers to their questions from their peers and it’s certain that they knew little or nothing about it. After receiving such wrong answers, they will like to practice what they learnt. If you teach them, they will only practice what you impacted into them but if you do not do your work, you have failed as a parent. Read the book of proverbs, especially chapters 1 – 5 to have an insight of what to teach the children about this subject…Let them know the use of all part of their body, tell them the mind and purpose of God towards all parts of the body. Whatever you sow in your children’s life is what you will reap and any question you fail to explain to them correctly, they may end up getting the wrong answers. Give your children the right impression about life so that they don’t make mistakes, teach them to have a positive mindset towards every activities of their daily lives even when negativity seems to overpower, teach them faith, the just shall live by faith. All parents should be friends to their children so that they could tell you when someone try to abuse them sexually, don’t put fears into them as some parents do. A good mother should be close to her children, especially her daughters because they will soon become ladies and women, so teach them what womanhood is all about. A good father as well should be close to his children especially his sons, teach them about life and all about manhood. Some fathers hug their daughters at a tender age but when they get to 13, 14, 15 years they stop, NO! continue, it will go a a long way to help them.

And you, fathers, (both parents) do not provoke your children to wrath,

but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord (Eph. 6:4. NKJV)

Don’t deny your daughters association with the male counterparts and better still, let them attend mix-schools. If you are sure of having thought them about sex education, discipline and how to pray (very important) then, when they get to the age of 18 years, grant them freedom, that is what they need at that age. What you need do when they are 18 are: Always advice them, Pray for them for God’s wisdom and protection, Pray for God to help them remember all that you thought them. Above all, teach them about Christ, the knowledge of Christ is the best knowledge they can get, it will guild them and they will not depart from it. If you do not know about Christ Jesus; what will you then teach them? The scripture said:

But you (your children) must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (2Tim. 3:14-15. NKJV)

Wisdom is not by age, knowledge or position you assume but it comes from God and through the knowledge of Him. Most parents will not teach their daughters SEX EDUCATION but will rather resort in locking them inside the house thinking it’s a way of protecting them against abuse and immorality. This is not true, any day such girl who is being locked up will go out, she will use one day to do what other girls could not do in one month. Think about what happens when they gain admission into the higher institution, or will you follow them to school? Some parents go as far as forcing them to attend a school close to their house, so they could watch them, NO you can’t possibly watch them! What the children need is knowledge of the truth, Jesus said: you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Lay the basic foundation of the knowledge of this topic in the lives of your children, it will profit them all through their life time.

Written by Evg J U Obi