you do it and don't even make babies sometimes!
Somwehere, a Santorum staffer just died.
Riley: Maybe I should just let you rest. Buffy: You sure? I bet if you just lay down with me- Riley: Nothing you are about to say will lead to rest.
'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Aims - Apr 08, 2012 6:42:56 pm PDT #11059 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
javachik - Apr 08, 2012 6:45:27 pm PDT #11060 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Ha!
meara - Apr 08, 2012 6:45:33 pm PDT #11061 of 30001
Aims, I had two younger siblings, so I got one of those "when mommy and daddy have a special hug" thing, more about babies growing in the tummy than anything else. Otherwise I do not remember any "talk", except at school ("Puberty! It's coming soon!" and "DRUGS! STDS! BAD!")
javachik - Apr 08, 2012 6:46:42 pm PDT #11062 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
LMAO! "A special hug" would put me off of hugs for a lifetime!
WindSparrow - Apr 08, 2012 6:53:34 pm PDT #11063 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Speaking as someone who has been on the receiving end of a picture book - for heaven's sake please don't put it in her Christmas stocking.
Jen, lots of recovery~ma for your mom. That is scary stuff.
le_nubian, lots of confidence-and-interview~ma for you.
Hey, vw, it's good to see your font. I hope you manage to get some kind of rest soon.
SuziQ - Apr 08, 2012 6:56:15 pm PDT #11064 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I'd say start out very general and be prepared for just about any question. It is ok to say it is private but sometimes all they need is to know it is ok to ask.
One of the more interesting talks with K-Bug started at a baseball game. It was the year after Giambi signed with the Yankees and they were playing the A's for the first time that season. There was a guy sitting near us wearing a shirt that said "Giambi sucks but Jeter swallows". My little cherub looked at me and asked "what does that mean?". Her father took an immediate cigarette break.
Aims - Apr 08, 2012 7:00:54 pm PDT #11065 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
for heaven's sake please don't put it in her Christmas stocking.
Oh my word. I promise.
WindSparrow - Apr 08, 2012 7:12:45 pm PDT #11066 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Oh my word. I promise.
Em will never consciously know how grateful she is to have such a sensible mom, but that part of her mind connected to the Collective Subconscious does know and is very thankful.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2012 7:16:21 pm PDT #11067 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A picture book you'll read to/with her? Or one that she'll read with you there?
My mother didn't use books. I probably wouldn't, because I'd like to draw during that talk. I think that would be interesting.
That's not why my mother didn't use a book. They were few and far between in 70s Jamaica.
Zenkitty - Apr 08, 2012 8:08:42 pm PDT #11068 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I never got The Talk. My mom probably figured, rightly too, that I'd read all about it and end up knowing more than she did, at least about the clinical facts. I wonder if that's one reason why she told the librarians to let me read whatever I wanted to... sneaky, Mom!