Comments on: Even Educated Fleas Do It

By: charlene

charlene — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:37:42 +0000

I had the opposite problem really. When I saw six, the druggies seven year old daughter gave the latch-key kid down the street a blow job in the back ally for all us kids to see. I went home and told my mom what I saw (not knowing any better because I was a pure little first grader). I got the whole talk, slang, proper words….for weeks. She went into panic attack. I must have had thirty billion sex talks by the time I was in highschool. I was a virgin until marriage. I blame her….LoL

By: * TONYA *

* TONYA * — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:55:50 +0000

OMG the memories. In my first year of what you would call junior high, my friends talking about ‘having their rags’ and I had not a clue in the world what they were talking about.
I have a 13 year old. He probably knows more than what any child should, but I’ve always had the policy that if he has a question it will be answered honestly b/c I’d hate for him to hear things from his friends who don’t in fact have all their facts.

By: Jessica Bern

Jessica Bern — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:45:56 +0000

Okay, how about I give her the book and I’ll write in the euphemisms myself. I think that is a fair compromise.
Just today my 5 year old asked where babies come from. Don’t worry, I told her…we better get going or we’ll be late for school

By: KJ

KJ — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:02:15 +0000

Yeah, my parents never did tell me about the so-called birds and bees. However, my mom did take me into the bathroom and hand me a pink pamphlet that said something about periods and thick pads. I guess she just couldn’t get the words out to explain it. But that’s just how things were back at the um, turn of the century.
No, I’m not that old. YOU are!
No, I’m not. You are!

By: wa

wa — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:31:27 +0000

Last week at our school, they announced that the 5th grade boys were going to have their “special assembly” to talk about the birds & bees. All I kept thinking was how much I’d hate to be a 5th grade GIRL that afternoon.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:02:19 +0000

Hi,
I just found NGIP. I love it. I read a lot of posts. Loved them all. However, this one reminded me of how grateful I was to have 2 boys. I was off the hook. Compared to my mom, your’s was very progressive. My mom said a few very awkward things as I was leaving for my honeymoon.
Marie

By: chat blanc

chat blanc — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:00:35 +0000

a quick reference guide would have been nice (possibly with pictures?)–my parents were even more chicken than yours, I didn’t even get a book! :-O kids these days at least have Urban Dictionary to consult, we had nothin’!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:25:32 +0000

Oh my gosh, I was handed a book too. I was clueless as my book was about how farm animals do it – a college book on animal husbandry. Okay that was just way to sick to do to a kid. Also, that movie in the 5th grade, of course this was 30+ years ago, what was it about really. Swimming, riding a bike – I was so totally lost, until I turned 12, then the whole ugly truth showed itself. Ugh, parents can really screw a person up.

By: dani

dani — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:22:03 +0000

Boy do I dread the day..

By: lizspin

lizspin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:48:14 +0000

That’s why I left that talk with my daughters to my husband. . . It’s much better to hear it from a boy’s perspective. Don’t ya think????

By: mrsmouthy

mrsmouthy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:25:51 +0000

Wow, your whole post is like a tangent. I love it! I often wonder if I’m the only 30-something who lies awake in bed, wondering if I would have been more popular in the 4th grade if I had brushed my hair and/or not wet my pants.
We had a “Stacy” too, who ran around asking all the girls if they had peach fuzz yet in the sixth grade. I hope she has crabs today.

By: Renee Khan

Renee Khan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:58:49 +0000

Curse of the red bat was the best.
xoxo
Renee

By: Alex L.

Alex L. — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:55:36 +0000

Oh that takes me back… not the learning about menstruation… that would have just been weird and really unneeded.

By: Pooba

Pooba — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:38:30 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t learn much from my parents. I never knew that on a normal cycle is 21 days off 7 days on. I didn’t know that you could put it on a calendar. I never knew when mine was coming I just figured once a month sometime right?
My mom filled me in on this information after I got married. I felt so stupid.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:06:11 +0000

Oh wow. I certainly hope that I give more to my wee ones that this when the time is right. Given the plethora of questions I get about every conceivable (ha!) topic right now, I’m not too worried yet.
If it makes you feel any better, my mom just handed me the set of encyclopedias for me to look up my questions one by one. Yah….
And thank you so much for visiting my blog yesterday during my SITS day. It was so much fun to see all the comments, and so many had such nice things to say. I hope you enjoyed yourself and come back to visit again soon!

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:55:39 +0000

But you didn’t have the pleasure of the OTHER book of that same series…I swear there was a divorce one I was handed as well, but a quick Amazon search turned up nothing.

By: Ladybeams

Ladybeams — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:48:55 +0000

Oh my gosh, that first book was the one I used for my kids. LOL. Although we read it together and went through everything. I wish I would have known about the second, it probably would have saved my son (my youngest and only boy) from the nightmares after we had “the talk”. Poor kid.

By: HeatherPride

HeatherPride — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:33:22 +0000

My mom bought me the wonderful book called “How Babies are Made” complete with 1970s photos of “junk” and “hoo-hoos”. Sadly, the book didn’t offer up any alternative lingo for those either.

By: Whup-Ass Master

Whup-Ass Master — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:41:29 +0000

my mother also dealt with questions of the icky nature by tossing books in my general direction. how easier my life would have been, had she given me on titled “So You’re Gonna Be a Homo”
xox
WAM

By: Nooter

Nooter — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:20:31 +0000

is that what those stupid fleas are doing on my back?? no wonder it tickles!