{"id":519,"date":"2021-04-21T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/?p=519"},"modified":"2021-04-21T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:01:01","slug":"the-p-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/2021\/04\/21\/the-p-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;P&#8221; Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in health class we started talking about <strong>puberty<\/strong>. Part of the BC health education curriculum is learning about the physical, emotional, and social changes that occur during puberty, including those involving sexuality and sexual identity.<\/p>\n<p>I know that students can feel very uncomfortable talking about this topic. We discussed that the reason for that may be that we are taught that there are certain topics or words that are considered taboo, or something you <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> talk about. While there are certainly situations where talking about your body is not appropriate, health class is not one of them. Part of our<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/2020\/09\/24\/division-7s-classroom-contract\/\"> classroom contract<\/a> is ensuring that everyone feels safe. This includes helping each other to feel comfortable to ask questions and learn about all topics. My expectation is that we can all handle this topic with maturity and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Your child may be coming to you in the coming weeks with questions about what they are learning about puberty. I encourage you to have open discussions with them about this. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tKfJ8w7XX6E\">click here<\/a> to watch the video that we watched in class today. As always, if you have any questions for me, do not hesitate to reach out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in health class we started talking about puberty. Part of the BC health education curriculum is learning about the physical, emotional, and social changes that occur during puberty, including those involving sexuality and sexual identity. I know that students can feel very uncomfortable talking<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/2021\/04\/21\/the-p-word\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/rudolphk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}