Sex is so difficult to deal with with teenagers. I promised myself I would be so different with my kids than I actually am. Instead of having nice calm conversations with my son, I go around reminding him to use condoms--and then when I actually FIND condoms in his room and in the glove compartment of his car, I freak out thinking he's having sex! (But all on the inside.) Having to deal with the stereotype of promiscuity would make it even more impossible to do well--but you seem to be doing it!
Comments will be open for a little while, then I will be shutting them off. The blog will stay, but I do not want either to moderate comments or leave the blog available to spammers.
Daughter, sister, wife, mother, foster-parent blog writer, philosophy professor ... I am and have been many things. These days my identities as a teacher of bioethics and the daughter of a woman with Parkinson's and dementia lead me to agree with Peter Singer, "It's different when it's your mother."
BTW - I looked at a few online, and the neatest ones I thought a teenager would like were these:
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Go to the bottom of the page to click on the link for condom carriers.
Sex is so difficult to deal with with teenagers. I promised myself I would be so different with my kids than I actually am. Instead of having nice calm conversations with my son, I go around reminding him to use condoms--and then when I actually FIND condoms in his room and in the glove compartment of his car, I freak out thinking he's having sex! (But all on the inside.) Having to deal with the stereotype of promiscuity would make it even more impossible to do well--but you seem to be doing it!
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