I actually laughed out loud at the person who said toddlers have no interest in the concepts of sex, intimacy and reproduction. Right, kids ask questions about things they have no interest in all the time, don't they? *eye roll* My parents taught me where babies come from when I was five, while my mother was pregnant with my sister, because, y'know, I asked.
The Unitarian Universalist Association actually has a religious education program called "Our Whole Lives" (OWLs) that's, well, sex ed throughout the kids' lifetime. Unfortunately my congregation is too small to run the full program—they touch on it every year, but only run the full program with the 13- and 14-year-olds. Luckily, though, we live in an area where sex ed is common in public schools. We started it in 2nd grade, and I can only assume it's become earlier since then, or at least more detailed at an earlier age (we learned about pregnancy in 2nd grade, but somehow didn't get to learning about our own genitals until 5th and the other sex's until 6th).
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The Unitarian Universalist Association actually has a religious education program called "Our Whole Lives" (OWLs) that's, well, sex ed throughout the kids' lifetime. Unfortunately my congregation is too small to run the full program—they touch on it every year, but only run the full program with the 13- and 14-year-olds. Luckily, though, we live in an area where sex ed is common in public schools. We started it in 2nd grade, and I can only assume it's become earlier since then, or at least more detailed at an earlier age (we learned about pregnancy in 2nd grade, but somehow didn't get to learning about our own genitals until 5th and the other sex's until 6th).