Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants should be taught in a 6th grade class.

The subjects dealt in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is the appropriate level for students in class 6th to understand. The story surrounds situation more of young adults like people in their 20's and 30's. A school student of 12-13 years old may be the appropriate audience for this type of product. The most obvious problem is that the the story's central premise is that four girls agree to share a pair of jeans one summer. They get this idea after the pants somehow fit them even though their body types are quite different. They figure the pants must possess some kind of magical powers. And, since they are all going through some kind of family difficulty, they need all of the help they can get. These 17-year-old best buds have known each other since their moms shared a prenatal aerobics class. The experiences encountered by girls of this age should in no way be taught to students of the 6th grade. This fascination, confusion and yet quest to know more and more about the topic and yet quest to know more and more about the topic is more evident in that age group which we term as adolescence for the very simple reason that being so prohibited it instigates the most curiosity in people because it is human nature that human beings are most attracted towards things that are prohibited to them. During high school years children minds have the greatest development. And whatever they have learned in high school they use that knowledge to help them move on through college. At the high school age teenagers experiments different changes in their minds, bodies. A sometimes question comes up that at what age children should know about the sex. To the answer to that question is it is generally believed that at the age of 13-14 children should get sex education in High School. High school should be teaching teenagers about different aspects of life, especially sex.

Perhaps parents fear that acknowledging and dealing openly with the reality of teenage sexual activity will somehow "encourage" their teen to be sexually active. Overwhelmingly, the studies of this issue say just the opposite is true. It's the lack of communication (Aggleton, 1990) that contributes to irresponsible sexual behavior by teenagers. Not talking to their teen about sex (or talking to ...