The Birds and the Bees talk

[bsfins]

This Question came up somewhere else...So I thought I'd post about it....

Did your parents give you the Birds and the Bees talk?

Were your parents Open about sex?

(a lot of the of Board probably had hippy parents...So I'm curious)

My Birds and the Bees talk was ..."Keep it in your pants Mister" It was too late...My mom She had sex? Never she's a good Catholic woman..We don't talk about those things...I appeared Miraculously  My Dad was a cheating He-whore....

[Dave Gray]

I never had a sit down with my parents, but my parents are old.  One of my brothers tried to do it once, but it was really awkward and I was old enough to already know what was going on.

I was raised Catholic and sex just wasn't a topic of conversation for us.  (Which is totally unhealthy, but whatever...)

[Philly Fin Fan]

I was in the same boat as Dave. My parents were old when I was born. They are from another generation, so that type of stuff wasn't discussed.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

When I was 5 I asked my dad how mom got pregnant.  He told me everything.  (Yes, everything.)  Mom was pissed as all hell.  (That fact I did not learn until I was a teenager.)

[Brian Fein]

When I was young, my mom sat my brother and I down for the awkward discussion.  About 2 minutes in, my brother and I started laughing uncontrollably and mocking her.  That was the end of that discussion.

[Buddhagirl]

My mom was pregnant with my lil sis when I was 7. I got a really scientific explanation then. Otherwise, sex was not really discussed in my house. I was asked if I wanted to go on the pill during high school though. By my Dad. That was awkward. (He was thrilled when I asked him why I needed the pill!)

[SportsChick]

I got a talk at 8, another at 11 and another at 13. The lines of communication were (and are) always open (My mom is young though, she's was only 18 when she had me)

[Sunstroke]

By the time I got to elementary school, my parents pretty much understood that anything I wanted to know about...I was going to find out about without ever asking. When I was 13, my Dad asked me if there was anything about sex that I wanted to know. I confessed that I had just had sex for the first time a few weeks earlier with a girl in the greenhouse at the local community college, and that it was pretty much as I expected...messy and confusing.

[Phishfan]

We were taught sex education in elementary school so my parents never had a sit down with me.

[StL FinFan]

I am trying to figure out when I should have this talk with my kids.

[Dave Gray]

I didn't mention this, but like Phish, I had sex education in school, and especially in middle school, I remember it vividly.  It was definitely a good thing.

[fyo]

Sex ed in school here as well.

[Sunstroke]

When I told my dad that I'd just had sex for the first time, the only things he asked me was "in the greenhouse?" and "did everything work ok?" I answered "yes sir" to both and it made for a pretty short conversation.

I am trying to figure out when I should have this talk with my kids.

I've always felt that late afternoons work best for that sort of chat...

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

By the time I got to elementary school, my parents pretty much understood that anything I wanted to know about...I was going to find out about without ever asking. When I was 13, my Dad asked me if there was anything about sex that I wanted to know. I confessed that I had just had sex for the first time a few weeks earlier with a girl in the greenhouse at the local community college, and that it was pretty much as I expected...messy and confusing.

You scored a college girl at age 13.  Way to go man. 

[Buddhagirl]

Along with Dave and others, I forgot that I did get sex ed in school. I think it was around middle school.