Comments on: TMI, Mom!

By: Poogles

Poogles — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:19:05 +0000

Well, I can’t remember the conversation because I was so young when my mom told me where babies come from, LOL. She said the first time I asked she just laid it all out! It must have worked ok because I can’t recall ever being confused by baby-making or even what sex entailed. Growing up it was very odd to consider that my peers may be “flying blind” as it were.

And I never did understand the whole “birds and the bees” thing…

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By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:47:47 +0000

My cousin gave me a lot of wrong info about sex and when I asked my mom questions about it, she gave me the “talk”. I was 7. My dad would have told me i’m sure if necessary, but I think it makes more sense for the parent of your gender to do it. Assuming you are blessed enough to have both.
That said, every time there was a “very special episode” of some show we were watching, my Dad would use it as an opportunity to make sure I had no questions about sex. Always totally enbarrassed me. I think he enjoyed making me squirm.

By: Ellen M

Ellen M — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:24:25 +0000

My guess is that this is one of those new-fangled professional parenting things that have changed since we were children (which is not necessarily bad thing, imo; leaving it up to schools or peers is how you get Bristol Palinized). There’s probably a book that lays it all out — age-appropriate sex ed or something, rather than waiting until the kid is old enough to plausibly need condoms. And since mothers — in my experience — tend to read more of those books, I could see it falling to them more.

By: Theodore

Theodore — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:12:43 +0000

I have to say many of my non-commenting friends have been telling me they heard about sex from their mothers. Weird. My mother wasn’t adverse to talking about sex, but actually sitting me down and explaining it? Please. Doesn’t that only happen in the movies?

By: greg from dt

greg from dt — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:47:47 +0000

my parents never said a word about it. They gave me the World Book Encyclopedia when I was like 9, and I guess they assumed I’d get to “S” by the time I hit puberty.

By: stonerdad

stonerdad — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:38:46 +0000

i learned about sex from my mom. she gave me some kind of boxed five-volume kids encyclopedia of sex when i was five or six — WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION MOM — and, later, a very helpful government pamphlet for pre-teens on the how-tos of masturbation. (we were not living in the united states)

personally, i can’t wait for “the conversation” — i’ll probably end up doing it a lot like my mom did, chasing me down with those tomes to answer questions i didn’t know I had.