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The “Movie”

22 February 2011 8 Comments

Guess who’s child saw “The Movie” at school? The one where they separate the boys from the girls and show each gender the appropriate birds-and-the-bees information? The puberty film?

Mine.

Gotta say that the result of it is making me laugh. Like the other night when a tampon commercial came on. My son announced to his friends on Xbox that he’s stuck watching a commercial about those “things” a girl uses when she gets her period. Or the time he broke into uncontrollable laughter when my dad announced that the nipple on my nephew’s bottle was broken. And completely omit the word ball especially in the plural form.  That’s guaranteed hysterics.

When he came home from seeing THE movie, I asked him if he had any questions from it.

“Yes, but I want to ask Dad them”.

Whew.

The next morning, after my husband left for work, my son came to me with a burning question he had thought of during the night.

“How will I know if I had a wet dream? Does semen look different than pee?”

Yikes.

With the straightest of faces and without making of big deal of it, I explained that semen is very white.

And off he went.

He’s fishing for something though and I’m wondering what it is he wants to know. He saw the tampon commercial a few days ago. Today in the car he said to me that he’s glad he’s not a girl because he’d hate to have to get his period and deal with all those period things.

It’s slightly ironic to me that while he’s just becoming aware of  what a monthly cycle is all about……my own cycle has just started getting all strange and peri-menopausal.

Funny timing.

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  • February 22 2011 at 6:33 PM Kristin_OPC
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    My son saw that last year. He was sufficiently scarred for a while. He can’t even look at a pregnant lady without being grossed out.
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    Nancy
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    Replied on : February 23rd, 2011 at 3:33 PM

    LOL. No mention of pregnant ladies here (yet). He’s stuck on tampons at the moment.

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  • February 22 2011 at 8:53 PM Jane said:

    I’ve been there, done that. But with a girl. My two boys (ages 6 and 7) have a little ways to go but my mouth dropped with I read your son’s questions. Boy, will I have my hands full in a few years.

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    Nancy
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    Replied on : February 23rd, 2011 at 3:37 PM

    I’m waiting for him to ask me my own personal experience with the topic. I pushed my box of tampons to wayyyyy back in my bathroom closet.

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  • February 23 2011 at 12:42 AM Sandra said:

    Must be something in the air! My 13 year old just asked me what would happen if the string fell off the tampon while it was “up there.” My husband responded: That’s what the needle nose pliers are for in the garage.
    Yup…my kid’s not going to need any therapy at all…sigh…
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    Replied on : February 23rd, 2011 at 3:40 PM

    Husbands are rarely any help on these topics. I can’t even imagine the answers he gave my son. Hope they weren’t ridiculous.

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  • February 23 2011 at 12:42 AM MIddle Aged Dater said:

    I don’t have children but I distinctly remember “the movie”. I didn’t get it.

    No wonder I’m still single. (Chuckle)

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    Nancy
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    Replied on : February 23rd, 2011 at 3:46 PM

    I can’t even remember the movie. Guess that would explain why I was single for so long :)

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