Abstinence Education and My 6th Grader
File this under Things I Shouldn’t Write About for a Variety of Reasons.
And…. Go.
My son is going through abstinence education at school. On the 5th day of Reality Check, the kids have the option (no pressure) of signing an abstinence pledge. This could be a problem considering on the first day of the curriculum I told my son to “forget about all that crap they tell you about waiting until marriage.” I did, however, request that he abstain until he gets to college.
“If you do that for me, I’ll send you off with a crate of condoms.”
(Insert 1950s style husband muttering in the background - something about “ruin your life” – as if said husband did not sample the wedding cake until after the vows.)
Anyway…
Cut to night #2 of abstinence education. I was proud of my husband for at least acknowledging the existence of erections. Although he still can’t say the word penis, he covered the basis science of blood flow. But I was the one my son asked the important questions, like WHY does it get hard and what happens to girls – since they don’t have a penis.
I will spare you the details, mostly because you already know them.
“Kinda weird, huh?” I said, all Mom-like. “But I promise it will all seem really cool one day.”
He smiled – too big. “Yeah – first day of college.”
by Lela Davidson on March 12, 2010
in motherhood, Rugrats, Tweens, & Other Offspring
That is soooo awesome! I mean, I’ll die when it’s time to handle that with Max, but soooo awesome for you.
Wow~glad I have some time to figure out what I’m gonna say! I like the “First day of college” pledge~it insures they WILL go to college!
Awesome sex talk! Still..makes me glad I had a girl :P
Oh sure, Amber – you won’t have to worry about any penises at all. Mmhmm. Sleep well tonight, my friend.
HAHA meanie!!!!
The part I need to chime in on is the husbands! Sick of the psychologists saying that same gender parent should and is best to talk to kids about sex and puberty with! The men won’t do it! They stink at it! They are scared and they sometimes lie. It’s outrageous. For accurate info boys have to go to mom. So take that, psychologists! Or, psychologists, come down harder on the men and when you have gotten through to them THEN tell us moms to back off and let the men do the talking.
Oh, you are killing me with the sex-ed talks. I never would have thought of “waiting until college” incentive to abstaine. What a great idea! Kill two birds with one stone. You’re a genius Lela! I’ll use that with my younger child that continues to tell me she wants to be a “stay-at-home mom” when she gets out of high school and you don’t need a college degree for that!
You are so fearless! My parents avoided any mention of sex like the plague. Alas, no crates of condoms at our house…
Perhaps I’m going to have to give this sex thing another look. I just told my kids, Father Bill, and Sister Mary Francis of the five wounds, that sex hurts really bad, and afterward you get a venereal disease and then go to hell. But it’s all worth it if you want two bratty children who will only break your heart.