At dinner on Sunday evening #1 told us that the neighbor boy has a girlfriend. #1 is almost 7 and the neighbor boy is 6. Nicole and I looked at each other with a smile.
He then went on to say, “Yeah, he said her name is Emily and she is really hot. I don’t know what that means. Maybe she should take an extra shirt off or something if she’s hot.”
We can laugh now and say it’s cute but for how long. The Church has already seen this problem:
A further problem arises when children receive premature sex information from the mass media or from their peers who have been led astray or received premature sex education. In this case, parents will have to begin to give carefully limited sexual information, usually to correct immoral and erroneous information or to control obscene language. #84 TMHS
She [The Church] also has many of the answers. It would be good for every Catholic parent to familiarize themselves with the Church’s document on The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality. Unfortunately, you may find that you need to use this very document to defend the innocence and rights of your child against most Catholic schools.
James M. Hahn, Author 