When I was teaching (many years ago) we had a 14 year old male pupil who became distracted, his work fell off and he seemed to be in something of a dream. His parents were mystified and talked about consulting a child psychologist. But his English teacher just talked to him one break, and then phoned the parents.As he recounted it, what he had said was
“He’s perfectly all right, I just explained to him that when you’re 14 it’s perfectly normal to think about sex all the time. I’ve done him a reading list to help deal with the things he’s worrying about.”
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