Sexuality Education and...Ticks?
It's late summer where I am in the Northern Hemisphere, and more precisely, in the stretch of mountains and valleys that I call home, it's still tick season. Ticks attach themselves to people in warm, moist, dark places, and I'm glad to say that with both my older boys having Our Whole Lives (O.W.L.) Sexuality Education in the background--even at ages 6 and 9--they can communicate the very delicate location of the ticks without awkwardness or self-consciousness so we can get right to addressing the problem! Which brings me to the main topic: sexuality education. I'll readily admit my bias, but I think Unitarian Universalists lead the nation in doing sexuality education well . Before I was a UU, I was a classroom teacher. And my parents and students approached me asking for sexuality education to be added to the curriculum. I spent that summer researching programs, and knew immediately when I had the right one in my hands. OWL blew me away with its focus on self-...