Sex Education

Lets start with a story.

Once there was a young girl who lived in Utah. She was a well developed teen for her age, and she was beautiful in the eyes of her friends and family. She had a hard life that she was trying to overcome. One october when she was about 11 years old she was at a ward Halloween party. It was great there were sweets, a spooky ally and she was very popular. Then a boy showed up. She knew him from elementary school and he had just moved back. He chased her and when they were hiding from his sister or cousin all alone in the young woman's room he did something inappropriate; he touched her breast. She pushed him back and ran away. Conveniently her mom and sister were down the hall and said it was time to leave she left. On monday at school one of her friends said she'd talked to him he said she'd pushed him, she got angry and told her friend what he'd done. She seemed outraged and the young lady felt violated. A few years passed and she learned that there was a word for what he'd done; molesting. But she never told anyone and even if she had, there was nothing anyone could do about it.

Something like this could happen to someone you know. The young woman in this story has a real hard time with this today, that young woman is me.
I didn't know what had happened to me until all anyone could say about it was "I'm sorry." Or "It happened years ago, let it go."
Educate your children and encourage your friends and neighbors to do so. Don't let your children get robbed of their self confidence, don't let them feel like a piece of junk, let them know it's ok to tell someone and help their friends make that choice if it happens to them.

Maybe one day we'll wake up and find that we all feel better about ourselves.