Reception children talking inappropriately

[Heynonnynonny14]

Posting on behalf of a friend.

Some children at her son's school (all in Reception class) were behaving badly in a literacy task and wrote down the words "bum" and "sex".

We don't feel this is normal for that age group and she is saddened that these terms have already, in a class of four and five year olds, started to be bandied about.

Obviously "bum" on its own is fine. "Sex" as a word or concept doesn't have a place in a reception classroom (as far as I can see) but if the boys in question were actually writing it as "bum sex" then I am horrified. Not from a homophobic stand point before I get shot down, but just from a place of wishing to prolong the innocence of childhood. Or are my feelings outdated and old fashioned? I just don't know what to make of it.

Please share what you think.

[AllPizzasGreatAndSmall]

@AllPizzasGreatAndSmall of course the word bum isn’t offensive. The word sex isn’t offensive either. A 5 year old writing bum sex is highly inappropriate and only on Mumsnet would anyone think different.

Does anyone really think that a 4/5 year old put those words together as a phrase and wrote it down, and that another child was able to accurately report to their parent that it was written as a phrase?

[Stompythedinosaur]

I suppose I don't think the fact that my dc understand that a baby is made by a man's semen meeting with a woman's egg (and that they meet by the man putting his penis in the woman's vagina) takes anything away from my dc. They also have a basic understanding about the food the eat powering their body and the waste turning into poo. They are just facts, and if they handled without a fuss from an early age then they are never seen as shocking.

[Maldives2006]

Oh my days YR children are not stupid they have probably heard the words on the news, tv or radio. Then repeated the words to their parents and been told off therefore think they’re really cool by showing off to their friends naughty words. There really is no need to over think it unless there is a reason to be concerned about abuse.