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The Alternate Social Reality Game! - Parenting.
Ok, this isn't really a game, its a discussion, but it is based on hypothetical and fantastic situations. The idea is to get everyone to give their opinion of how something would end up if it was done differently. The topic for this round is Parenting:
Situation: Instead of the classic parenting method of protecting your child from sexual situations until they are deemed to be responsible to handle themselves, what if we divulged everything early? At age 11, you're teaching your daughter everything she needs to know about sexual conduct. You educate her on how it will feel, the risks, the pleasures, the social implications, the age laws, menstruation, penises, pregnancy, orgasms, and anything else you can think of. You do so in a matter of fact way, making sure to balance the positive with the negative.
How do you expect your child to react to this information?
I had this discussion with my mom. She believes you should "wait until the kid is mature enough to make their own decisions." I was slightly challenged by this comment because it assumed that kids that young don't have the ability to make qualified decisions. My argument against that is that kids aren't given the information needed in the first place to make qualified decisions. If a kid does something foolish, its usually because they lacked education about the matter. If you trust a kid with maturity, I think they will return your investment with good decisions.
Of course my mother has more experience than I do, and I am not saying her concerns are unfounded. I simply think that my ideals reflect on a reality that never existed. BUT IF IT DID EXIST, and kids were not dismissed, ignored and sheltered from important information, could they handle it?
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