Ore Oduba

My godson's 17.

I was talking to him just this weekend about it.

And he was like, maybe one class a term or a year.

It's, I mean, you got to feel for teachers because they've been delegated this responsibility and most of the people in their class have not had a conversation with another adult other than them.

yeah and there isn't there might be like an element of it to the syllabus but this hasn't been taught this has been inherited yeah yeah and you know kids have already seen loads of it they're already talking about it there's an awkwardness they're sniggering in the classroom the attention just isn't there because by the way after this class is finished they're all going to be sharing it between them anyway they've already got their own subculture for what they think towards sex it's completely obsolete it's completely outdated um

And I think there needs to be a real structural educational change that really addresses an early look at how we talk about good, healthy sex for children and young people.

Because people are getting more access earlier and earlier anyway.

So we have to change the goalposts.

I think if we don't look at how kids are consuming from a really early age and talking about what good fundamentally to society, good sex and relationships look like,

then we can't be surprised that by the time they get to pre-adolescence and into adolescence, they've already formed their own idea of what it looks like in their heads.

And it becomes harder to intervene.

How long ago was that?

That was five years ago.

And so much has changed in that time.

And I'm glad that there's, you know, I'm an official champion of smartphone for childhood.

There is obviously, you know, the discussion about when's...

you know, reducing the age of social media access for kids and when's the right time to give kids a smartphone.

I think the discussion is changing right now.

And thankfully, schools are participating in that conversation because they're the ones that are seeing these kids and the changes to them for eight to 10 hours a day, you know.

And gratefully, I mean, the idea of a school saying you have to give a kid a smartphone is absolutely true.