A few weeks ago, we were hanging out with another family with two daughters. The other dad brought up a news story that proclaimed that blow jobs were the new good night kiss. And then the adults, lifted there hands to their foreheads, turned pale white and nearly fainted. I piped in with a "whoa, whoa - do I think that girls are giving BJ's on the front porch while their dad's peek through the peep hole? No. But if you think high school boys aren't getting a blow job, you're nuts." And then they all said I was wise and sage and should consider running for PTA president.
But, seriously. I hate it when there's a something that the media latches on to and it is designed to scare the crap out of parents. Because I had given absolutely NO THOUGHT to my daughters and oral sex until that moment. And now my brain is scarred. Permanently. Apparently, there's a book and a documentary by a Canadian author who doesn't even have an Wikipedia page. I poked around long enough to find that she started a few teen focused magazines in Canada. (Canadians are so horny, so of course they wouldn't just settle for a kiss on the porch.) Now that I know there's a book, I'm going to have to at the very least flip through it.
This reminds me of something my cousin Brandon's wife said to me once while she was holding her newborn son: If you're the mother of a boy you have to worry about one penis. If you're a mother of a girl, you have to worry about all the penises.
The most frightening part of this story (so far at least) is the bit at the end of the clip where it says that you have to establish open communication at a very young age and be constantly engaged with your children at all times. I hate it when I have to inspect my parenting under a microscope.
*This post is being interupted by a call from the school nurse.* (And additional anxiety, I've been passing along the link to my blog for some writing jobs. I think posts like this aren't going to endear me to future employers.)
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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You might not get a lot of Canadian jobs but other than that I don't think you should worry. I'm laughing like crazy after reading this last post. You Vanessa, are a very good writer, very good! If it wasn't true I wouldn't bother reading. I'm glad your posting more often as I get tired of reading the same thing!! haha
Seriously this is big. I was talking to some Highland Park mom's and apparently last year there were "rainbow" parties in 5th grade. All the girls wore a different shade of lipstick and left a rainbow on the boys whoo-ha's and whoever had the biggest rainbow won.
Be freaked out.
Makes me want to throw-up!...I have a very impressionable intelligent beautiful 11-year old girl who is finishing 5th Grade. My wife is an ob/gyn who sees first hand all the young girls that come in for birth control and who basically "give it away" like this clip...I also have two younger girls..I don't want to face this sh#$%t, but as a parent you have to do your absolute best to teach them values, right and wrong and future consequences.
Uh, I certainly did not mean that I thought kids and BJ's were laughable. I myself have a daughter and take this kind of stuff very seriously. I am a firm believer in education being a great deterant as opposed to "scare tatics" that some of us got, which I do not think work much at all.
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