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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 301636" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I get the bloke vs sheila stuff. We do tat a bit too, but in some areas, I make a point of talking about it because I don't want my kids to avoid talking about it with their partners/friends of the opposite sex. I also like to use the embarrassment factor as an extra hammer to drive the point home. There's nothing so embarrassing to a teen, to go condom shopping with their mother, who calls out from the next aisle, "Honey, do you want ribbed or non-ribbed? And what flavour? Don't get banana, it tastes awful!"</p><p></p><p>A friend of mine (who, after being single for decades, now has a visiting male lover) had her newly married daughter offer to tidy up her house for her. Daughter changed the sheets on the bed and opened up the wrong drawer (from her own point of view) to discover her mother's vibrator collection, including a recently acquired space-age technological marvel.</p><p>"I didn't need to see that," she told her mother later. "I don't like to think of my mother buying those things."</p><p>"I didn't buy it, it was a Valentine's present from my boyfriend!" said the mother, reproachfully.</p><p>"Well, I got given chocolate..." replied the daughter.</p><p>"So did I," replied the mother, "But mine came in a jar, with a brush..."</p><p>Daughter rushed off, fingers in her ears, singing "la, la, la, la..."</p><p></p><p>There is great value in this approach. Every teenager and young adult needs a good healthy dose of reality when it comes to their attitude to sexuality in oter people, especially the unexpected. It's a useful wake-up call that they don't know everything, and they DIDN'T invent sex!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 301636, member: 1991"] I get the bloke vs sheila stuff. We do tat a bit too, but in some areas, I make a point of talking about it because I don't want my kids to avoid talking about it with their partners/friends of the opposite sex. I also like to use the embarrassment factor as an extra hammer to drive the point home. There's nothing so embarrassing to a teen, to go condom shopping with their mother, who calls out from the next aisle, "Honey, do you want ribbed or non-ribbed? And what flavour? Don't get banana, it tastes awful!" A friend of mine (who, after being single for decades, now has a visiting male lover) had her newly married daughter offer to tidy up her house for her. Daughter changed the sheets on the bed and opened up the wrong drawer (from her own point of view) to discover her mother's vibrator collection, including a recently acquired space-age technological marvel. "I didn't need to see that," she told her mother later. "I don't like to think of my mother buying those things." "I didn't buy it, it was a Valentine's present from my boyfriend!" said the mother, reproachfully. "Well, I got given chocolate..." replied the daughter. "So did I," replied the mother, "But mine came in a jar, with a brush..." Daughter rushed off, fingers in her ears, singing "la, la, la, la..." There is great value in this approach. Every teenager and young adult needs a good healthy dose of reality when it comes to their attitude to sexuality in oter people, especially the unexpected. It's a useful wake-up call that they don't know everything, and they DIDN'T invent sex! Marg [/QUOTE]
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