It is not often that a teaching resource gets journalists hot under the collar. In fact the last time this happened was when the Sex Education Forum (SEF) dared to advise teachers what to do if a child asked them about pornography.
Well the SEF has done it again, this time suggesting that there are appropriate ways to start talking to younger children about consent. Several newspapers seized on the suggestion that children who refuse to kiss a relative are exercising their right to have their physical boundaries respected and before we knew it the media was swamped with indignant journalists accusing the SEF of losing the plot.
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