One of the issues in the Philippine educational system at present is sex education. It is sad to think that even the ideal place to explain sex at an early age of a child has become an issue and a conflict for both parents and educators. In fact the ideal place to explain sex education is at home.
The Home is not only the first school, but also the most important avenue for learning. The Mother has been constituted as the first and the most effective teacher. The mind of a child receives impressions with ease, which sinks deepest and lingers for a long time. The child loves his mother and trusts no one else in the world. The lessons he learns from her are received with implicit confidence and unquestioning faith. No other person, not even an educator can ever substitute for the mother as a teacher. The most that these persons can do is to supplement the work of the mother. The home is the ideal training school not only because the mother is the ideal teacher, but also because example is more powerful than precept. It is the example of the parents – their actions, words, attitudes – that forms the atmosphere which the child takes in his every breath.
The Home constitutes the ideal classroom wherein the father can explain to his young son and the mother to her young daughter the love of God for human life as reflected in the endowment of sex. Its wholesomeness, its sacredness and its divine purpose can be unfolded in the reverent language so that early in life children can be taught how to control the instincts which focus in the divine endowment. Thus their minds will be vaccinated against the infections which are the temptations of the later days.
Most of the parents have hard time explaining to their children regarding their curiosity about sex. Parents would say to them “It is God’s method of bringing into existence a human being and thus establishing the home. That is why God made man, male and female.”
But since it is God’s means for the multiplying of race, it is a great a holy gift guard it as one of your most precious treasures and keep it always pure. This you can do by controlling your thought, your imagination and your senses which are the windows of the soul. That is what young people must do with the forces of sex instinct – guide, control and direct them to the goal of clean and radiant young manhood and womanhood.
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