Comments on: Sex Ed., Queen Style

By: wjoconnor

wjoconnor — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:32:58 +0000

Wonderful, I think I’ll bring the kids to watch my next proctology adventure, sigh.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:19:56 +0000

I love that they had lollipops.

By: anne

anne — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:57:25 +0000

That is so messed up funny….

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:41:35 +0000

The comments are almost as funny as your entry….beautiful!

Chris
My Blog

By: melissa b.

melissa b. — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:52:49 +0000

This is why I love you, “Point taken. But IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m also not going to have it be some big mystery to him. Or some HUGE deal. ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a womanÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s body. No biggie.”

At 10 and 12, guess what? My boys still don’t think it’s a big deal. They have a good self-body image and they still walk around in their undies or nude and they still come talk to me in the shower, by stilling on the side of the tub, shower curtain thrown back. They’re fine, they are knowledgeable about such an everyday thing, and they aren’t obsessed about things like seeing a bra catalogue or boobies or butts or penises. They tell me when they want privacy by closing a door, I do the same.

I imagine that if they wanted, I’d still take them to the OBGYN with me. Because, yes ma’am, they played with the string too once upon a time and learned that tampons can shoot if you hit them just right and they can explain to you (or in our case, my husband) just how an applicator works by making a pseudogina with a loose fist. And use a tampon to stop a nosebleed. And how a penis, yes, does get bigger if you play with it in the bathtub.

By contrast, my neice thinks the tampon goes in my butt and she’s horrified.

By: jay

jay — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:39:15 +0000

You guys are such a cute couple. I hope you had this discussion at the dinner table! Oooh, my mother would be so horrified!

By: Gidge

Gidge — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:37:57 +0000

I think that on a certain level the Kaiser is right – at some point they should probably stop going because it’s going to be icky for them to be looking at mom’s snatch up close and personal – with some much DETAIL.
But I also agree that there’s nothing WRONG with them going when they are really really little. It’s life. It’s normal and there isn’t anything wrong with it.
I think that is what is strange is that we spend so much time (okay not me, but soceity) protecting our kids from stuff that doesn’t matter (like gyno exams) and not enough time protecting them from the ABC family channel which has
been showing HORRIFIC Halloween commercials.
Horrific Halloween commercials depicting violence and gore seem to be okay fare for my family of 4 and 2 year olds, but a gyno exam……I’m supposed to protect them from that?

I’m pissed at the ABC Family Channel can you Tell?

By: Jack's Raging Mommy

Jack's Raging Mommy — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:33:22 +0000

My mother tells the story of when I was three or so and had recently had an anotmy lesson that I ran up to a feiend of hers and said
“I have a gina! Wanna see it?”

By: mamaholler

mamaholler — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:32:47 +0000

It would never occur to me to leave me kids outside at an exam. Just like it didn’t occur to me that I should lie when Bunny asked me what tampons were. The more they grow up understanding, the healthier they’ll be (in my lil’ ole humble opinion.) Of course, if this isn’t the way your husband grew up, it may take a little stretching of his brain to see it from this perspective. Also, I don’t have boys, I have girls… and though I love to talk my big ball game and believe that I’d do everything exactly the same way if I had boys… who knows. I do have to tell you that I support this parenting choice and think it is wise, wise, wise.

Now, I’ll interject a bit of rhetoric. I think it’s important for boys, at a very early age, to understand the female reproductive system- because it is the MOST POWERFUL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!! It is more powerful than any man made, contrived, plastic, fabricated, sociological structure that we’ve got out there… and sadly lots of boys grow up to be grown men who never understand this. Most little girls grow up to be women who understand it out of necessity… but boys sometimes avoid it or learn that it’s dirty and gross… or based in mystery that they aren’t supposed to understand because it has never been explained to them. So… the more they grow up knowing because it’s right there in front of them… the healthier they will be.

Now I am stepping down from this soap box. Sorry. Done.

By: Queen of Spain

Queen of Spain — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:00:42 +0000

Oh YES! They are VERY concerned when I have a boo boo and am bleeding! Almost overly concerned.