I can't stand parents like that! Kids can't stand parents like that! Other parents can't stand parents like that! Friends of their kid can't stand parents like that! It seems like it's always the guy who was the wildest, most obnoxious, disrespectful, cheating, assholes who become that type of parent.

I hate to break it to you, but your boys probably already touch their penises to all kinds of things.

Parents get defensive and go “But I wanna be the one to teach my kid about sex!”. Sex is seen as private and taboo so parents are on edge about other people or groups talking to their kid about it. The whole “I’ll be the one to teach them” thing wouldn’t be so bad if the parents who said it actually bothered to talk…

I was forced to attend the worth the wait program. It was complete nonsense. I remember being asked what I would do if I got pregnant as a high school sophomore. I told the presenter weirdo man it was none of his business what I did with my own body and that it was also none of anyone’s business if I did or didn’t…

A lot of parents think “I did this bad stuff as a kid, but I’m raising my kid RIGHT so I don’t have to worry about them doing it!”. Which is probably what their parents thought as well.

This is why I also drink, but my kid is doing good. I just made sure he knew: condoms, condoms, condoms, and never let anyone manipulate you. I found teaching him the myriad ways people attempt to manipulate you, in bed or out, was the best insurance. Let me tell you, my kid takes no shit whatsoever! ;)

I live in Texas and my mom recognized the dangers of sex education in the state so she taught me herself. Starting at six. She thought if I could ask questions I should get correct answers. She did this early and often. She was so comfortable with it that I had no choice to listen. We could be having a nice drive to…

Depends on the curriculum

I would say it depends on her/your definition of “constantly”.

My thoughts exactly.

I hope my kid is the one trying to correct the teacher with scientifically accurate information. :-)

And nothing is taught - nothing at all anywhere as far as I can see - about pleasure. I mean, god forbid we should view sex as a pleasurable activity. We leave kids in total ignorance about their own damn bodies, about being good lovers, about responsibility and real life consequences. They end up learning garbage in…

In my experience, by the time he gets to school sex ed, you’ll have already been teaching him the right way for years. It won’t be til like 9th grade that they go “condoms break! why bother using them at all!”

My mom, who has worked in education for years, basically says parents often underestimate how much kids know about sex and how interested they are in. Kids are still sexual beings even if it is a little gross to think about. They need to know about sex.

When I learned about masturbation in fifth grade, I had already been doing it for two years. And I’m female.

My husband’s ex is like that. She actually flipped out when I bought a book about male puberty at a library sale for my stepson. She also once asked us why he was suddenly taking such long showers; it took both of us staring blankly at her for her to finally get what he was doing in there for so long.

LOL. Yea I know. My 11.5 y.o. son is big and smelly and my daughter, my little baby who is turning 10 tomorrow, has these very odd teeny boobs that live only in her nipples. But they know where babies come from, dammit, because we have a human anatomy textbook that we got on sale at Barnes & Noble. Unlike those…

Welcome to my personal hell. I know the kids well enough to know for a fact their kids are already looking at porn and doing all sorts of things by the 7th grade. Oh and at least 1/2 the girls have been getting their periods for at least a year. But their parents want my head on a pike if I say the word puberty…

I lost count of how many bottles of expensive lotion I lost to my brother. For his dry skin. He could say that shit with a straight face at 14. He had/has no shame, so I can’t even use this to embarrass him.

I’m not even sure yet what the schools in our area actually teach. I keep asking but no one seems to have any info. Which is weird but I guess consistent with their head in the sand approach. Not against it, just not really for it either. Apparently there is a video shown at the end of fifth grade. My friend was…