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Sensitivity classes for adults who protect their children
Sensitivity classes for adults who protect their children
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Book Introduction
“I know that adult sensitivity is important, but how do you teach it?”
Self-Esteem Up, Prejudice Out! Real Sex Talk for Parents and Children

Conflicts stemming from distorted perceptions of gender are deeply permeating elementary school classrooms.
Parents' concerns about how to protect their children from the various sexual risks that have invaded the children's strong media culture are also deepening.
Seo Hyun-joo, a former elementary school teacher and activist for adult sensitivity education, says, "The only way to solve these concerns is through adult sensitivity studies conducted by parents and children together."
The author, who has been promoting proper sexual education methods through various projects and lectures, seeks to provide the most realistic and essential guidance through this book to parents who feel a vague sense of obligation regarding sex education.
This book thoroughly guides parents on the basic principles of gender-sensitive education that they must know, such as the process of life's birth that leads to 'sexual intercourse-pregnancy-childbirth-childcare', education on respecting boundaries, breaking gender stereotypes, understanding hate speech, family diversity, how to seek and respond to genuine consent, true solidarity with the weak by abandoning a charitable attitude, and ways of thinking without prejudice.
If you know the importance of sex education at home, but are frustrated because you don't know the methods and standards, try memorizing the guidelines in this book one by one every day and applying them to your conversations with your children.
The author's expertise, gained through his long career as a teacher and lecturer, will serve as clear and detailed guidelines.
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index
prolog.
Adult Sensitivity for Everyone

1st period.
Parenting Education Needed in a Changing World

Why We Need Adult Sensitivity
Green Mothers' Association and foster parents
K-Mom Research Report
If you try to cram sex education into a special lecture, you'll fail.
★ Adult Sensitivity Self-Assessment Checklist

2nd period.
Before entering elementary school, eradicate the seeds of prejudice.

Are the words 'sojungi' and 'gochu' appropriate?
If you haven't explained yet how babies are born,
Was the girl born with long hair?
No more girly and boyish colors!
Do you really need a urinal?
“My son asked me to buy him a pink glitter bag.”
Recognizing safety starts with respecting boundaries.
How long can we take a bath together?
“Oh my, I feel so bad for not having a daughter.”
★ Check out the environment of the kindergarten classroom

3rd period.
After entering elementary school, healthy sexual values ​​foster self-esteem.

There are also levels of profanity
Beware of the "Queen Bee"? That's a clear expression of disgust.
Why the Gender Binary Is Dangerous
Equal language life with 'Auntie the Dishwasher'
There is power even among friends.
What sex education books should I read?
Education to prevent harm and damage by neglecting to prevent harm
About the great but unappreciated housework
Normal family and low birth rate
The Influence of Mass Media on Children's World
You don't have to have a period party or wet dream party.
★ A Deeper Look into Gender Stereotypes

4th period.
Adult Sensitivity Education in the Digital Age

Click! Did you take a picture of your child without their consent today?
If you can't avoid YouTube, here's how to watch it healthily.
Teach children to be wary of people who praise them online.
How to Weed Out Bad Picture Books Filled with Prejudice
If you are worried about the trend of 'bone-dry' celebrities
11 Principles for a Healthy First Sexual Experience

Epilogue.
We are at a crossroads

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Since the rapid spread of smartphones in the 2010s, the level of hate speech and verbal abuse by students has become much more serious.
The world of children before and after smartphones was a world of upheaval. Cyberbullying through social media, viewing and then acting out distorted sexual content, and the objectification and otherization of human beings gradually permeated elementary school classrooms.
(…) We found that school violence becomes most serious when sexual issues are involved, when power relations between children are at play, and when digital hatred is the basis.
---From the "Prologue"

The first time the word 'prejudice' was uttered by a child, not me, was when my oldest child was six years old.
There was a child who appeared to be a boy carrying a daycare bag at the playground and a grandmother looking after the child.
A child who was observing an ant stomped on it with his foot and killed it.
And then he said this.
“Grandma, I’m a man, so I’m not afraid of ants!”
My oldest child, who was watching this scene, ran up to me and whispered in my ear.
“Mom, that child is speaking prejudiced language.
Even men can be afraid of things.
And you don't have to be afraid of ants, they are just precious lives.
“You shouldn’t kill them so carelessly.”
I was secretly surprised when I heard the child's whisper.
I've used the word 'prejudice' a lot in general, but I never expected that this parenting style would be directly applied to children.
At that time, I once again experienced the power of education.
Because I personally felt that the words and actions of adults with proper values ​​have some kind of influence on children in each family and on students at school.
---From the "Prologue"

It is difficult to expect that all classrooms in today's public education system will provide the same level of sex education.
Because there is no national standard curriculum.
That is why we have no choice but to rely on the individual teacher's sensitivity or use the private education market.
(…) Sex education instructors who are dispatched to schools or found in the private education market cannot teach in a way that is closely related to daily life, so they have no choice but to focus only on topics such as genitals, masturbation, menstruation, and pregnancy during class time.
What I want to emphasize is that sex education is not about learning content, but about learning 'perspectives.'
That is why adults should learn first, rather than children learning separately from adults.

---pp.49-51 From the 1st period, “If you try to cram sex education into a special lecture, you will fail.”

The gender binary, which divides people into only two categories based on gender, can be an unspoken pressure on some people and limit their freedom of thought.
Because before you can become a 'real human being' who knows what you like, you are forced to be 'feminine' or 'masculine'.
In that respect, it is truly unfortunate that new students are asked to choose between a girl's bag and a boy's bag before even entering the school gate.
It is said that the frontal lobe, which continuously develops as humans grow, becomes activated when we think deeply about something and make choices.
Is it okay for a world where half of what children choose is already eliminated?
---pp.110-111 From the 2nd period, “My son asked me to buy him a pink glitter bag”

The content contained in the few commercially available sex education books is very narrow in scope.
It stays on the topics of birth, puberty, genitals, cleanliness, and prevention of sexual crimes.
These topics are only part of what parents thought of as "sex education" in childhood, and are not true sex education.
Some sex education books even contain illustrations that present a distorted view of the human body or convey incorrect perceptions of sex.
To be honest, there are quite a few bad books that are worse than not showing at all.
---pp.188-189 From the 3rd period, "What Sex Education Book Should We Read?"

How should parents perceive school violence? The existing violence "victimization" prevention education should be abolished.
Violence is not something that a potential victim should be wary of in advance, but rather something that does not happen unless someone 'perpetrates it'.
Violence prevention education must begin with education that informs people of what constitutes violence.
What's important is what comes next.
If we only focus on the meaning of violence and how to prevent harm, it is easy to think, "If violence doesn't happen to me, I don't need to know about it."
It just becomes someone else's business.
That's why we need to teach 'prevention of neglect'.
---pp.200-201 From the 3rd period, “Prevention of Bystandership Instead of Prevention of Harm and Victimization”

Publisher's Review
"Generation Alpha's sex education needs to be different."
How to talk about sex without prejudice
From gender equality to respect for boundaries and understanding diversity,
A Guide to Adult Education to Protect Your Child's Safety and Self-Esteem

“These days, even second graders are ‘early learning’ pornography through smartphones…….”

In the digital age, concerns surrounding children's sex education have become far more extensive and complex than in the past.
This is because there are a plethora of risk factors that can instill wrong values ​​and trauma in children, from harmful media shared in various communities, including KakaoTalk group chat rooms, to online sexual violence such as digital grooming.
Parents are trying their own methods, such as installing smartphone monitoring apps, requesting lectures from schools and institutions, and finding good sex education books, but it is difficult to completely allay anxiety about their children's safety.
Experts agree that controlling and suppressing children, such as by disconnecting them from media, or using only one-time classes or a few textbooks, will never lead to effective education.

'How can I ensure my child grows up with sound values, free from the sway of their surroundings?'
As a mother of two sons and an elementary school teacher, the author has thought more earnestly than anyone else about how to provide sex education appropriate for the modern era.
The starting point of this concern was the issue of children's sexuality and hatred of the weak that was routinely witnessed in the classroom.

“Since the rapid spread of smartphones in the 2010s, the level of hate speech and verbal abuse by students has become much more serious.
The world of children before and after smartphones was a world of upheaval. Cyberbullying through social media, viewing and then executing distorted sexual content, and the objectification and otherization of human beings gradually permeated even elementary school classrooms.

Elementary schools in so-called 'good school districts' were no different.
The author, who has personally experienced that the only way to resolve this conflict is through "adult sensitivity education," is promoting correct and flawless methods of adult sensitivity education through various projects and lectures.
This book is the most friendly and specific sex education guide written based on that experience, and it thoroughly guides parents on the gender awareness education guidelines that they must know, such as the process of birth of life that leads to 'sex-pregnancy-childbirth-childcare', education on respecting boundaries, breaking gender stereotypes, understanding hate speech, family diversity, how to ask for and respond to true consent, true solidarity with the weak by abandoning a charitable attitude, and a way of thinking without prejudice.

"If you're unsure how much to cover in everyday sex education,
A book that provides clear guidelines for each age, situation, and concern.

After meeting countless students and parents, the author confirmed that the primary caregiver's educational philosophy and daily parenting attitude have a decisive influence on a child's values.
Therefore, this book begins with correcting the parent's own sexual sensitivity.
You can carefully reflect on and censor your parenting style using the sharp perspective presented in this book as a yardstick to determine whether you are unknowingly teaching your children stereotypes or instilling a distorted and biased self-awareness.

Although we live in an era that demands more nuanced and sophisticated education than ever before, the sex education that parents receive today is limited to the concept of life, contraception, and secondary sexual characteristics during puberty, and even that is not sufficient.
Therefore, many parents complain, 'I know the importance of sex education at home, but I don't know the methods or standards for it.'
The author deeply sympathizes with these hardships, but also honestly reveals the educational reality that cannot rely solely on public education.

“It is difficult to expect that all classrooms in the current public education system will receive the same level of sex education.
Because there is no national standard curriculum.
That is why we have no choice but to rely on the individual teacher's sensitivity or utilize the private education market.”

For parents who are at a loss due to lack of proper sex education, the author tried to provide the easiest and most practical solutions possible in this book.
It provides clear educational standards for each period and situation, examples of conversations that can be naturally applied in everyday life, a list of quality picture books by topic and age, and detailed guidance on how to filter out bad books that instill incorrect values ​​in children.
The information in this book, which is based on extensive experience in lecturing on adult education, will serve as a clear and useful guideline for parents to establish the standards for proper adult education.

Sex education teaches perspectives, not information.
Real sex education that takes responsibility for my child's lifelong perspective.

The author urges all parents to remember the true meaning and value of sex education before considering how to educate their children.

“Sex education is about teaching ‘perspectives,’ not information.”

This is why the author repeatedly emphasizes that 'sex education should be repeated naturally in daily life more than any other education.'
Healthy sexual values ​​instilled by caregivers during infancy have a decisive influence on the child's sense of identity, self-esteem, and lifelong relationship formation.

If you want your child to live an independent life without being confined by a gender box, if you want them to grow up protecting their own rights and safety, and if you want them to live in happy relationships based on the values ​​of respect and equality, I recommend that you use the parenting guidelines in this book, which are based on "gender sensitivity," as a compass and have open and meaningful conversations about sex with your children.
Through the changing words and actions of children, you will discover day by day the true value of sex education and the joy of being a 'companion' who gives your children a healthy and happy future.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: October 26, 2023
- Page count, weight, size: 288 pages | 368g | 130*190*18mm
- ISBN13: 9791168128279
- ISBN10: 1168128277

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