Kids' sex talk leaves teachers 'helpless'
From: The Mercury January 31, 2010 2:57PM
Teachers are "horrified" about the conversations primary school students are having about sex. Source: The Daily Telegraph
"Students boasting about oral sex"
Using explicit language
Teachers feeling "helpless"

TEACHERS are overhearing Tasmanian primary students boasting about having oral sex.

Roz Madsen from the Australian Education Union (AEU) said teachers "felt helpless" at how to deal with the problem, The Mercury reported.

"The students are talking about what they have done on the weekend, sexual experiences that they are having," she said.

"It seems to be happening at earlier ages."

She said at a recent AEU forum, teachers had described what children in grades 4 and 5 talked about.

"They are talking about oral sex and saying they are doing it. Who knows if they are or are just boasting, I hope they are not," she said.

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"And the language as well, it's quite explicit, nothing is left to the imagination."

Family Planning Tasmania's chief executive Sue Williams said teachers were "horrified" at the conversations on Monday mornings when kids compared what they had done on the weekend.

"All sorts of sexual activities," she said.

"Oral sex has become the new kissing. It's easy and you don't get pregnant."

She said for some children, their first knowledge of sex was through pornography on computers or mobile phones.

Sexting was also a growing problem, where kids send explicit photographs of themselves to others on mobile phones.

Ms Williams said teen pregnancy remained an issue and the centre had heard of 12 and 13-year-old girls falling pregnant and a 14-year-old giving birth to her second child.

Relationships had evolved and school kids now had "friends with benefits" and multiple sexual partners rather than a steady mate, she said.

Ms Madsen said body image was an emerging issue and teachers were reporting kindergarten kids were worried about how they looked.

In March, Family Planning, the AEU and other groups including Parents and Friends and Relationships Australia will join forces at a forum to call for sex and relationship education to be part of the school curriculum.

The Education Department leaves it to individual schools to decide how to offer this, which Ms Williams said meant the quantity and quality varied dramatically.

"Teachers say there is no central policy so they feel quite vulnerable to take it on," she said.

Education Department spokesman Bob Phillips said parents had a role to play in teaching their children about sex and relationships.

"Schools are only partially responsible," he said.

Amazing Weekend!!!

Hi!!! long time i did't not update my blog since my first week i came back inti. Actually not much homework but i have no mood to write out anything. Everything is in a deep and bottom of my heart and mind. Last wednesday was my birthday. My friends made a surprise for me.. Fastinating birthday celebration for me this year!! thank you so much!! They sang birthday song to me and a nice cake from bakery.We had took some photos and probably my roomate had uploading it in her blog!! everyone can have a look there~~~it is very touching and i appreciated it so much.On thursday again was a public holiday so we took this opportunity to enjoy ourself. We went to Time Square. They had planned to play at the theme park but i reluctant to do so. Finally they asked me to play together with them. It would be my unforgettable birthday for me this year they said. So, i tought it agian. it's alright i can play!! so i said yes!! when we were standing in front of the entrance, i had change my mind again!!! hahaha!! i not dare enough to play all those things!! what a coward girl!!sad!! sad!!at last my friends paid the ticket for me!! my birthday present!!!hahaha!!thanks!!! i was screaming and shouting as loud as i can because iam very scared and this is one way to release our stress actually!! all sort of actions and sound seemed shining out among us hahaha!! some of them wanted to vomit out and some felt dizzy!! hahaha!! . After everyone satisfied so we went on with shopping!! We spent a day in the mall. After walking for the whole day i felt really tired and really sleepy!! i am sweating along the way to get back to our college. So tomorrow morning again i went to Johor Bharu after finishing my english class around 11 something. After grab some food i got myself ready and walking to the bus stop. I took the 3 pm bus to get to my sister there. After travelling for 4 hours finally i reached there and my sister came to picked me up with her boyfriends. Early in the morning we went to city square, shopping mall. First we did was having our lunch. my tummy crying since in the early of the morning. My sister is a kind of shopaholic!! so we walking all the day!! my legs become numb already!! hahahaha!! so today i came back to reality again!! gambateh!! fight for it!! u can do it!!

Variations!!!!

I think many of you when reading the above title, will getting yourself in many different corner of your life as we all have variatons in our daily life. Sometimes sad, sometimes got yourself in trouble and sometimes enjoy your life so much!!!! All these could happen in one day like today experiences that i am going to share with you all in this post. In previous post, i had told you all that i am going to jog with my friends this evening (if you are really my true fans, reading every of my post, hahaha!!! it is impossible rite????)but i can do it. huhuhu!!!! very disgusting!!!! i am not feeling feel today, very headache couldn't speak out any words( speechless) for couple of minutes. if i do so, all foods that i had stuffed into my stomach will come out!!! I ran out of my room to pantry area quite a lot of time. I scarced i would vomit it out in my room, then it really get myself in trouble. So i decided to call my mum. After that she asked me to drink the medicine. So i rushing to get the hot water and straightaway throw inside my stomach.*sigh* I think because of my lunch today!!! my stomach not accepting!!! indigestion!!! Everything went wrong!! i want to got myself rest on my bed but i can't do it!! but i have to force myself lied down on the bed!!!! closing my eyes for a while i felt a bit relief!!! hey!!! i hope that will be back to normal again soon. As a result, i can't go out with my friends, so i caged myself inside my freezing room!!! frustating!!!! heh!!! my friends kept asking me i am okay or not???? thank so much!!! it really got me up!! cheering me up!! yeah!!!After for a while i getting better and even better and now i am blogging again. see!!! variations happen every minute, every second!!!

Now my friends are staying in my room. So i am not going to miss this moments!!!
I have to stop it here.!!!

bye!!! happy!!! happy!!!

Headache!!!!

Ouch!!! my haed spinning!!! what's happening???? After having lunch i felt haedache. Maybe last night i had slept late and this morning had to wake up early in the morning. I started my first lesson with Mr Yee, my econamics' lecturer. He is funny like last semester but this time even more funny!!! The class ran smoothly today. OH!!! N0!! specialist maths class has cancelled today. I also don't know why????? maybe the lecturer still not ready to teach us..hahaha...have to do a lot of preparations before teaching all playful kids...hahaha..The cafeteria is under renovation, probably in 3 month times. haah!!!! so where we going to have our lunch!!! dining hall???? or bakery???? Anyway we have no choice. i finished my class at 12 noon only. So now is my free time again. This evening my friends has planed to out jogging or maybe playing basketball. depending on their interest, i am okay!!! no problem!!! jogging! basketball!! or just staying in a room!!!hahaha..Oh one more thing, i am misunderstood about the subject we going to take for this new semester. Actually, only non-muslim taking moral education while muslim have to take islamic study!!! i think we going to study on the same class but now we have to separate. This time we have to mixed with private students taking moral tooo. So we can meet new friends then. Hopefully we would not get a very strict lecturer. So we can still enjoy our lessons in the class. Nothing much to write this time and i am still haedache, wanted to rest for a while before getting worse. see you all in next post!!! i will tell more interesting story in next post okay!!! and one more before end my words!!! today no homework!!! hahaha.. this is what i dreaming for!!!!

HAPPY!!!!

HiHi!!!! say hi one more time to u all before i say good night. Actually i already wrote this post half-way just now but i accidentally pressed the button on the keyboard. I don't know which button i have touched just now but it affect my post. Everything i had written on my blog gone in just a blink of eyes. What had happened??? i have to write it again..huh!!! tiring!!! after thinking for couple of minutes i started a new post and a new contents probably..haha..this evening many interesting activities i had done and of course blogging is one of it. I having my dinner a bit far from our hostel tonight. We went to aunty jenny restaurant today. On the way there we kept on talking and it is full of jokes. I hope this will continued until the end of this year. When we reached the restaurant, the waitress there served us quite well. We sat in the air-conditioned room. Sitting for a while, the waitress passed the menu list to us. It took time for me to look at menu one by one. For couple of minutes, i searching the food i am interested in. Finally i choosed rice but till now i not really know what i had ordered just now. I merely remembered it name!!! Paprika fish Fillets rice if i am not mistaken. It is awkward for me to speak out in english as all my friends ordered in chinese. So i asked my roomate to help me!!! thank a lots ya!!! next time must use this service again. hahaha...when come to order the drinks the same thing happened to me. Looking at the menu one by one, i am the last person ordered the drinks. The waitress waiting for me order, so with smiling face i said out 100 plus!!!! hahaha...and when i looked at my friends they laughed as i always order 1oo plus. Actually i don't know what to order so just ordered it. After everyone were full, we got ourself up and check the bill. Here the problem, the same problem came again. So i am the last person to pay the bill. Actually i have know idea about the food i had ordered just now. How it looks like??? but i think nice and it really nice. Although it is quite expensive but its alright as we seldom come here. one time in one month.huh!! i still can bear it. One more thing today the first day 6 of us regathered at inti after a long holiday at our hometown. So we took this opportunity to celebrated it. We walking back to hostel happily with our full stomach!!! After that some of my friends gathered in my room and did something interesting. must keep it a secret.hahaha...We chit-chating for a while, then they went back to their own room. Full of happiness, i started to share it here!!!! Happy moments must share to everyone!!! rite???? Now a bit late already, so i think i have to stop here tonight. still got a lot of story i wanted to shared with u all actually but all idea has gone just now because of my fault just now!!! carelessly pressed something.. haiz!! okaylah, tomorrow still can continue if i have no homework. happy!!! happy!!!!

Coming back again after having lunch with my friends. We went to Deli again today. Everyone seemed enjoyed and have appetite at this cafe. Today i ate mixed rice as my lunch and soybean drink to fill up my hungry stomach. While eating we kept on chit-chatting. Just eating half-way, i am very full. Maybe the soyabean drink made me full. Anyway i kept on eating. Finally i managed to cleared up my plate. Just left a small bowl of soup and soyabean drink half of the bottle. I tried my best to finish up the rice..If not my friends would surely nagging at me "You always waste food"or "You always left something on your plate". I don't want to hear this again so i forced myself to do so. After we all cleared up our plate, we walked off the cafe but i felt like want to vomit out. It really full. We walked back hostel under the hot and sunny weather. Climbing up the stairs with full stomach was a bit tiring. Luckily i stay at second floor only. As the door opened i straightaway lying on my bed and turning on my laptop. huh. Finally got back in my small room..it quite cold and that made me felt sleepy. However, i kept my eyes opened and continued with checking mail and facebook. Everyday staring at the laptop's screen was a bit weird for me because 2 month holiday i seldom turn on my laptop except for the really really important case only like playing game or surfing the net. hahaha.. but here i felt like i has been addicted to it.hahaha...My handphone rang just now. My mum had called me and we had a talk about a couple of minutes. A few more minutes my handphone rang again but this time not my mother but my sister. We has planned to go back home this coming 2 weeks if have no any problems. I hope i can achieve my plans but in two weeks time i scarced my lecturers will give us many homeworks that have to be completed in time.huh!!! don't need to think about it now. i hope all my classmates would agree to postpone or replace the class back...please!!!!! one of my friends still not coming back. She told us she will be back today so we all are waiting for her now!!! hurry!!!hurry!!! we all are waiting for you now.! Now my roomate is busy blogging tooo....i guaranteed that she must uploads her photo in her new post..right????? hahaha...i just kidding okay!!!!don't mind okay!!! all your photos that had been uploaded in your blog all nice and meaningful. it made your blog more interesting. Nobody get bore because can staring at your face while reading your post.. keep on uploading your photos okay!!! share with us so our life getting more happy!!! hahaha...come back to my topic..yay!!! my friend, kacy came back already!! so will be more fun later because we have 6 people in our group now...eh!!!! continue with my topic again but actually what i want to continue with????? oh!!! follow my roomate upload some photos okay, so you not get bore when read my post..hahaha...i will follow you!!!hahaha but next time okay cause i am too lazy to browse the pictures and waiting it to upload in a blog. so now i want to watch thai lakorn (drama) already...later i will tell u all okay how was the drama (if it really interesting and exciting) i hope not so boring ya!!!! see u all again in next post!!! thank Q so much!!!!!

Good Morning!!!!

See u again this early in the morning probably it is early morning for many people especially my friends. They still enjoying their sleep. Last night i slept around 1am after chatting with my roomate for awhile. After my roomate turned off the light my mind still fresh. I kept thinking many things. Many different topics come in my mind during that time and i am dimly remembered it when i woke up this morning. After closing my eyes i still thinking and thinking. This is usual for me here. I don't know what time i slept last night but this morning i wake up about 8 something.

Staring at the ceiling for a while, i picking up my magazine which is on my bed since last night and flipping it from one page to the next. Actually this is not right time for me to read a book but no choice, so i juz continued reading. One topic was so interesting. So i keep reading on. After brushing my teeth and came back to my room, i thinking what iam going to do after this or maybe today. i told myself don't think to far. hahaha...so i take this chance to online and blogging again. At first i don't like to write something in my blog cause i have to squeezed my mind and write something interesting. But now thing already changed. I write everything that pop-up in my time, so i enjoy blogging so much now. From this i learned and realised something. Don't aim for the perfect but find out your ability to do it. Today we are going to enroll at the mph if i am not mistaken. Tomorrow we will back to the reality. starting our new battle in inti.hahaha...but it alright we fight in group,"a group of cheerful friends". Today still free nothing to do but maybe tomorrow will be fulled of homeworks. That is the reality of college life. Everyone has to endure it. This second semester i just left 6 subject in total and some lecturers are no longer teach us this year. No more SOFA and MPW. But we have to take one new subject that is moral education. This subject quite familiar to most of us especially non-muslim as we had learnt it since primary school but perhaps this time slightly different or maybe totally new to all of us. Most of our classmate had came back since yesterday morning and some still staying at home and enjoying the end of holiday. Tonight, everyone must gathers at inti and inti bacomes colourful again. Now i have nothing to write but i still want to continue...hahaha..tick tock!! tick tock!!! yeah one more thing i would like to share with u all. Last nite my mum called me and i could merely hear a baby was crying. That is my nephew. He is juz 5-month-old. My mum asked me to sing a song to him. This is what i usually do when i am at home to feed him a milk. After i sang the"twinkle little stars" song the sound slowly dissappeared. What a miracles. I can stop him from crying..hahaha..or perhaps he is tiring or what, but i am very proud of myself. I hope to see and play with him as soon as possible. He made my life full of happiness and he being one of friends when i am getting bored at home.hahaha..remember!!!

MIRACLES HAPPEN EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!

YEAH!!

i has juz came back from having dinner with my friends at Deli. What a nice noodles!!! it yummy..so now is my free time. nothing to do now, so the best option is blogging. I want to share with you all my new year celebration for this prosperous year. On 31th dec i went to my friend house.. They organised the countdown party so i went there earlier. i reached her house at evening about 4pm and when i arrived, i was really surprised. She was sewing the curtain. So i ask her do u really know how to sew??? she kept explaining me have to start with this and then continued with that.i got blurred. after an hour shesaid she going to send it to the expert..hahahaha..i kept laughing at her..and at night we practised to sing the songs that we going to sing on countdown night..although i knew my voice was not very sweet but just enjoyed it. The next day, i had awoken by my friend's mum. Her parent went to wet market to buy fresh seafoods and vegetables. Many people came to helped us. The time move very fast. When i looked at the clock, it is already 7 something in the evening . Many people was coming and we have a BBQ and hot claypot soup.. 10 second before 12 am sharp we started countdown. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1...HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010.We sang new year songs and wished each other. We sang many songs. we were dancing and i enjoyed it very much. May god bless us with happy and prosperous new year.. i wish 2010 will be a lucky year for everyone!!! happy!!! healthy!!! wealthy!!! happy-go-lucky...

Happy New Year!!!

today 2nd day of 2010, i am at my college now with my roomate. i came back here yesterday evening with my friends from kedah too, joane and reached here about 8 pm.After one hour on the flight, we safely landed at lcct. i am not really know how to get the bus back to college. anyway, we tried to walk out. Standing there for a while, we saw an airport liner bus, which i quite familiar with it because it always passed by our college. So i walked there but a bit slow because many people there and my luggage also heavy too. i pulled as hard as i can and finally we made it. Yeah!!! tht the bus back to inti. climbing up the bus was very hard and tired for me as i have 3 luggage in total, so my friend helped me to carry one bag. Thanks so much ya..it was quite a long journey travelled from lcct to klia because of the long runway..haha..it is getting dark and we still in the bus..haiz.. what time we going to reach our college...oh one more thing to share was the condition in bus. It was very packed and luckily someone stood up to let me sat down. Thank you very much. although tiring with all my luggage but its alright. We reached at klia and the bus driver asked us to change the bus but when i climbed up the bus, again the bus driver ask us to wait another bus..ha???? what??? why good luck not on my side today...sitting there for a while finally the bus was coming...and again i have to carry my bags up the bus..huh..i am sweating. getting hotter and hotter. i felt a bit headache as from a warm and heat place we sat in a air-conditioned bus. after about 45 minutes we reached our second home.. INTI...we walked up to our room. what a surprise!!! my roomate came back earlier than me. knocking the doors many times but still no answer from her so i opened the door but where is she??? i walked to the washroom to find her out but no people so i decided to call her. actually she is at deli restaurant having dinner with her later... sitting on the bed in my room, i thinking back the moments when i am at home with my family and a friends was totally different from here. anyway we came here to study not to enjoy.. enjoying 2 months holiday at home was the best time for me. theoritically it is a long holiday for many people but for me practically not enough.hahaha..its okay..came back here we have to adapt to the new environment. gambateh !!!u can do it this time...remembering my first semester here was a tough time for me.. i really felt homesick..Away from home was a big challenge for me because my home, family provided and gave many things that i can't expressed it in words. However i am adult now. i have to be more independent and experiences daily life by myself..maybe i am youngest in my family that made me felt like this.. i do not know what had happened to me???? never never felt like this before.. but this time came back i had made my heart. enjoy it.. don't worry..u can get through this...here i have many cheerful friends and lecturers..so i surely enjoy it...stop the sad story and have a fresh start in this new year...forgot averything bads about the past and cherish the good..after 1st night in inti, today i woke up a bit late.. talking with my roomate until 1am plus with a late countdown party on 31th dec night made me felt very exhausting...zzzZZZ..only three of us came back early. we walking out to have our lunch and went to AO to get back our keys and we i planned to go giant to buy some essential things that i need. We were worrying and tiring waiting for the bus to come and the time to came back we have went through the same things. We also have to walked a long distances to the shopping mall. it is about one kilometer away from the place we got down the bus..While we were walking i can heard my roomate breathing very loud..it looked like she very and really tired...i am laughing at her and we all laughed. hahaha.. i hoped u don't mind ya...hahahaha...that all for me this time...happy new year everyone!!!!