You just excellently proved my point better than I did. Thanks.

That's not necessarily true about the not remembering. Even now I still look back, mildly horrified/embarrassed, on (things that I quoted from movies/questions that I asked my parents/stuff I saw or heard) without fully understanding their/its significance. I wouldn't say that I'm scarred, but it sure seems like it would have been simpler with a little honesty. Sure, five years old is not an IDEAL time to open a dialogue about sex, but if your child walks in on/overhears you, it needs to be addressed somehow. The surest way to make sure a kid never shuts up about something is to dismiss it. I don't know the OP's child, but there had to have been something she could have said that was vague enough to be age-appropriate without being a lie. "That was a special hug that mommies and daddies do because they love each other," or something. As for premature knowledge of human sexuality creating grope-fiend campers, what about in the 1700s when families frequently lived in one-room houses? Parents back then certainly didn't stop reproducing just because there was a kid around, and I imagine that the puritans frowned upon sex during daylight hours, though I have nothing to corroborate that with, just speculation. Anyway, the logical conclusion to draw would be that occasionally sex happened where kids could easily see/overhear it, and there's no evidence to suggest that colonial America was swarming with little sex offenders.

Whoops, almost forgot. http://www.springerlink.com/content/r5v6786906t11tj7/

people also were married at thirteen and preparing for children back then, so that was a bad example. things were different then and people weren't educated on psychology like they are now. no offense.

I'm no historian, but I'm pretty sure that most colonial Americans didn't marry until the age of about 20-25...maybe a little younger, but definitely not 12. Also, psychology is not like the cliff that Wil E. Coyote runs off of in cartoons - that is, our knowledge of psychology has no bearing on whether or not something screws us up. It's not like you experience a stimulus and have no psychological response to unless you "look down" and see that you're supposed to be messed up by it. If that were true, children would never have mental illnesses and psychiatrists would be the most ****** up people in the world.

I'm no historian either, but in colonial times, people lived a lot shorter and females were married off early often at the age of thirteen and fourteen. (http://www.angelfire.com/ca/HistoryGals/Chloe.html) I'm pretty sure that's a fact I learned in the 6th grade, so again this was a bad example to use. And don't underestimate psychology. There IS such a thing as being too young to know something. Simple example, ratings for movies and television.

Yes, but it's the CONTENT of what the parents tell their children that causes things like gropings. If parents approach explaining sex to their children in a healthy way, not hush it up like it's something shameful and disgusting, kids will have a healthy outlook toward it. If what they see when they're coming up is movies with stuff like that in them, and their parents being a little overly affectionate in front of them, they're going to think that's appropriate behavior. Also, some little boys are taught to be like that with women by their fathers because their fathers want them to be good with the ladies or something. Yes, there are certain things that should not be taught to young children, but if people keep hushing it up, kids are going to keep being dumb with their decisions later when their parents aren't around to stop them.

I get your point, but again, this is a five year old. There is plenty of time (like when she's at least 8 or puberty age) to educate her on the many joys of sex. This person's daughter is only FIVE years old. That should matter to people. This particular conversation is "content" that is not age appropriate for a five year old. I don't think it matters how you describe it at this point because the child is still only five.

"You just got schooled?" "Douchebag?" WOW! Thanks for the laugh.

There is a reason why I believe middle schoolers should not be aloud on the internet.

Yes. Why the hell is a 12 year old on here anyway?