article_snippet: A mother-of-one has argued that parents should be doing more to teach parents children about sex following the news that pupils as young as 11 will be taught the difference between rape and consensual sex in schools.
article_snippet: Mother-of-one Sonia Poulton, 50, a journalist from London, argued that the onus should not be on schools to teach children such issues around sex education.
article_snippet: If anybody needs to be having sex education lessons it's parents. '
article_snippet: Children are becoming sexualised earlier and there is plenty a parent can do.
article_snippet: Children are seeing "pop porn" from Rihanna and Nicki Minaj and we need to be telling children in schools - if anything at all about sex education - that's
article_snippet: we are thrusting children into this sexualised world when we don't need to.'
article_snippet: She added on the issue of teaching the difference between rape and consensual sex in schools: 'We should not be normalising this for children.
article_snippet: I am an open-minded mum and I sexually educated my daughter because I am the safest person to do it.'
article_snippet: We know at Childline that there is a deficit (in sex education) between the ages of six and 11 so these children don't have the tools and the know
article_snippet: Carla Pointing said Carla Pointing agreed with Anna's points and welcomes the move to change sex education in schools.
article_snippet: Sex is for adults not children!'
highlights_snippet: Mother-of-one Sonia Poulton thinks it should be parents educating parents educating their children about sex children about sex .
  