sexuality growth and development presentation...just a question

[lccougar02]

so..i am in pediatrics right now and I have to do a presentation on sexuality growth and dev. in infancy-adulthood. I also have to talk about sexual curiosity and masturbation in children.

So heres my question:

I have to present 3 discussion questions to the class heres what I have:

Which do you think is a better way to teach sex ed: abstinence or std and preg prevention and why? When?

A mother comes to you as a pedatric nurse complaining that she caught her 11 year old boy masturbating in his room. She doesnt know what to do. What should you tell her?

anyone have one more class discussion question for me?

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

anyone have one more class discussion question for me?

How about what should be done (how this should be handled) when a 3 year old child constantly puts their hands down their pants in public places (after ruling out infections, abuse, etc).

Reason why this comes to mind is that my cousin's son did this constantly, anywhere, anytime. So my thought is how do you keep from saying "don't do that" to be interpreted as "that's bad" and explain this so a three-year old will understand?

[lccougar02]

How about what should be done (how this should be handled) when a 3 year old child constantly puts their hands down their pants in public places (after ruling out infections, abuse, etc).

Reason why this comes to mind is that my cousin's son did this constantly, anywhere, anytime. So my thought is how do you keep from saying "don't do that" to be interpreted as "that's bad" and explain this so a three-year old will understand?

Well first i have to answer that question:

I think I would take the child away from the public environment and explain that they can put their hands down their pants only in their room or the bathroom. These are private places and we dont want anyone else to see you do that.

Does that sound ok? Haha

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

Sounds good to me, and then i guess you'd go from there (i don't have kids, i wouldn't know what to say lol).

[lccougar02]

Sounds good to me, and then i guess you'd go from there (i don't have kids, i wouldn't know what to say lol).

haha i dont have kids ethier thats why this is hard haha

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

Maybe searching around on childraising forums designed for parents might give you more ideas?

[Hodge]

One of the issues with sex education is that it needs to be comprehensive - this rules out abstinence only. A great program offered by my church (my church would be considered liberal) is called OWL - Our whole lives. Check it out http://www.uua.org/owl/teachabout.html

In response to the mother catching her 11 year old masturbating, this would be a great time for her to talk to her child on this (although this conversation with her child probably should have happened before this time......)

[little daredevil]

i'am just a nursing student and i dont have younger siblings either.. but based on our class discussions.. one of my clinical instructors told me that: it is actually normal for a child to masturbate, though the parents should have enough guidance towards their children... a complete explanation on the whereabouts about human sexuality... you should always take part in explaining about sex education since they are adolescents... make sure that the child will understand... constant guidance does really works...