Comments on: Facts of life

By: Dulwich Divorcee

Dulwich Divorcee — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:06:26 +0000

I still don’t think I’m ready to see that, and I’ve done it twice! At least I remember it putting me off the whole idea when I saw the film at 14 …..

By: Jo Beaufoix

Jo Beaufoix — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:10:20 +0000

Wow. Hee hee. I have this to come very soon as it begins this year. Miss E is in year 5. I can’t imagine her watching a childbirth film next year. She’s just not ready I don’t think. Gulp.

By: Dulwich Divorcee

Dulwich Divorcee — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:04:33 +0000

Hi Jimmy, thanks for dropping in and for the compliments, will certainly pop chez toi

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:54:56 +0000

Eek. Nice blogging though. Interesting and you keep the reader, er, reading.
plentymorefishoutofwater.blogspot.com/

By: Dulwich Divorcee

Dulwich Divorcee — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:48:03 +0000

Hi Rosie, nice to meet you the other day! No, the school hasn’t kept us informed ….possibly because there wasn’t a big take-up when they offered to show us the Year 6 sex videos, including birth. Many of us, including me, felt we’d rather been there and done that …..not sure I could sit there while the headmistress talked about This and That anyway, eeeek!

By: Rosie Scribble

Rosie Scribble — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:38:48 +0000

Hang on a minute! Shouldn’t the school be informing you in advance of what they will be teaching your children. When a friend of mine had children in Year 9 she was called into the school to be told what we would be taught, which I would imagine would be quite an awkward parents’ meeting. But I think I prefer this approach to the worries you have. I’ve got all this to come and I can’t say I’m looking forward to it!

By: Dulwich Divorcee

Dulwich Divorcee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:27:50 +0000

OMG re the condoms!!! But I think you’re quite right – once they’re old enough to do IT they’re old enough to be careful. Mind you, I am sure I will faint if I ever find any condoms chez moi! I think well-intentioned misinformation, like your Nan’s, bless her, can be the cause of a lot of confusion – I’ve always gone for the ‘blind them with science’ approach, getting really nitty-gritty with tubes and ovulation in the hopes that I’ll bore everyone into a less squirmy topic …x

By: Dulwich Divorcee

Dulwich Divorcee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:24:32 +0000

I absolutely dread to think, re the detail. And you’ve been mixing with the wrong crowd, re the colour!!! xx

By: Bluestocking Mum

Bluestocking Mum — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:09:19 +0000

Good lordy. I hate answering delicate questions.

This is always a tricky one and struck a cord. Remember, I have a sixteen year old? Well last week we found a box of condoms in his bedroom – supposedly given out at his college! After the heart attack, I figured that it doesn’t matter what I think…If he was to have sex, I’d rather he did it wearing a condom.
So back to the facts of life talk – I always say that if they’re old enough to ask the question, they’re old enough to have an answer.

My Nan brought me up and I still remember that she once told me that if I kissed a man when I was on my period, I would get pregnant!

I’d rather be a little embarrassed than give my kids the wrong advice or worse, avoid it.

best wishes
x

By: suburbia

suburbia — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:58:35 +0000

How much more detail can the provide, for goodness sake?!

(Did she really have to colour in male genitalia? Presumably green was out of the question?!!)