AFRICAN MOTHER AND GIRL SEX EDUCATION

Girl children are amazing and so peculiar thus, should be taken proper care of. When girls are not nurtured and taught certain critical issues like sex education, they become vulnerable. Parenting is a very delicate job, most especially being a mother. Parents should care, love, protect and educate their children with special focus on the girls. It is important for girls and their parents to establish a wonderful personal relationship.

Sex education is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, age of consent, reproductive health, reproductive rights, safe sex, birth control and sexual abstinence. Common platforms for sex education are parents or caregivers, formal school programs, and public health campaigns.

Mothers have the task to teach their girls sex education. Sex education should be taught regularly to the girl child especially in our technology time where children can learn anything via TV or social media. Mothers should be able to instill consciousness into their pretty little girls to make them aware. Explaining the facts of life is not a one-off lecture, but an ongoing conversation, which is continuous.

The fact that some parents did learn sex education with their parents makes it difficult for them to communicate with their own children. While many do not even know how to go about the discussion, others fear that their children might want to experiment with sex before they are mature enough to deal with it. Other parents will rather allow schools to deal with it but this is not ideal because they have their own role to play. The fact that girl children are more vulnerable to violations like rape, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, it becomes important to educate them and create awareness. When parents continue to wait for the right moment, they miss the best opportunities.

On the part of other parents, while they even take the bold step to educate their girl child, they do not explain the right concept, the cut through and use words or actions that might end up to endanger the girl.

Just as in the photo above, the mother should have in detail explained what sex is all about and properly educate the girl child on the whole package instead of using words that were misinterpreted by the child and the immediate consequence was unwanted pregnancy. In other cases, it could have been sexual abuse like rape.

African parents particularly mothers are encouraged to continuously talk to their girls on sex education.