Sex Education is never an easy subject to teach our children. Wow, here I am , writing a subject that was considered a taboo many years ago. Frankly, there's no other way of teaching this except to go straight to the point. When my daughters reached the age of 11, I told them about puberty and the birds and the bees. No, no, no. I told you. It's not an easy subject to teach our children. I told my two girls about monthly menstruation and told them that under no circumtances anyone should touch their private parts. How's that? Of course they started laughing at me. Nobody can blame them, they were only 11 when I told them separately. The 'no touching' part goes on and on until they were 15 to 16 years old.

I took for granted that my husband will teach the boys.. So when Nabil was eleven, I asked my husband that part of education was due. He took Nabil for supper at the mamak's stall for his sex education. When they came home, I asked my husband about it. He told me there was nothing said during supper. He just didn't know how to start, so they just ate their supper quitely. I had to take over, my husband said. In Nabil's case it was easier since his ustaz had started the education in school.

So during my children's teenage years, I included other things like moral values, pre=marital sex, etc as part and parcel of their sex education. I even included the functions of condoms to one of my children. Call me modern but I'm not. I am still very conservative about certain things in life. There should never be any pre-marital sex, no extra-marital sex, no homosexualism. Not only those activities are against most of the religions in the world, but the bottom line is these activities will disintegrate the family institution.


So when Miss Elizabeth Wong was caught with 'compromising photos', it is not her privacy that is in question here. What she does in her bedroom is her business, no question about it. But once it become public knowledge, she has a responsibilty to take. I for one would not want a leader who takes moral responsibility so lightly. We are Asians so full of culture and traditions. Her actions promote pre-marital sex to the youngters. As a parent I do not condone that. I think most parents do not either. So she made the right decision to let go her position. Nobody should stop her not even in the name of politics.

The saddest thing was that even her Muslim friends backed her up, knowing fully well that her actions are punishable by the Islamic Laws. Where are your principles, people?