There are times when we receive a confirmation that something you doing is the correct way to go. Sometimes when we most need them, at time other times because they are. I guess that we do need them when they come even if we do not believe we do for they come in handy later on.
My eldest child started high school this year. She is learning once again about how much society's ways of viewing the most natural of things as bad, as something to be ashamed of.
Today, she tells us that when the girls get changed before or after swimming, every single girl hides in the shower or toilet to get changed. They see my daughter getting changed in the changing area. It takes having to get fully naked to get ready for the pool or to dry up and dressed ready for regular classroom work.
"Ewww, that's disgusting", they say, "get changed in the toilet or the shower".
One knows that society has failed the youth when the idea of two girls seeing each other naked while getting changed as filthy. With all the sexualisation of children where you can get sexy string underwear for 4 year olds, dress your 6 year old girls in skirts so high cut that just leaning over shows her vagina in a seductive manner, and all this is not receiving the anger that it should, society instead victimises the concept of getting naked to get ready for the pool or to dry and ready for the classroom.
The fact that my 12 year old daughter can shamelessly undress in front of other girls her age as naturally as breathing and eating reaffirms to me that raising our children in a household that is not only clothing optional but a household where the body is natural, as part of nature as the working ant and the flower growing in the backyard, reaffirms to me that this lifestyle is the right choice.
They get to decide if they wear clothes or spend the day naked. It is their body. Surely that it is their decision whether they wear clothes or not? Surely it is right to teach children that the developing body during puberty is as natural as drinking water to survive?
Teach your children about sex. Not like they do at school but in that they learn what the body is doing and why. Let them know that girls have wider hips to carry babies and that they do naturally carry more natural body fat around the hips and thighs for child bearing. It is nothing to be ashamed about. The body, especially the developing body is to be celebrated including having the girl, now a young woman having her first menstruation cycle have a celebration to recognise that she is no longer a little child but a growing young woman. A beautiful woman at that. Have the boys out with men to celebrate manhood.
Celebrate life naturally and remember to live naked.
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