The "Health" Talk

Well it was the "health talk" day at my girls school, and since Rebecca is in 5th grade she got all kinds of infomation on human growth and development. In typical Rebecca style she breezed into the library where I was stacking books threw a little goodie bag of pads and deoderant down onto the table, and annnounces all they did was talk about "periods and stuff"......one of the other moms who had been in there stifled a giggle, as Rebecca casually picked up her backpack and headed off to PE.

The other mom, was astounded...."Is she not embarrased? Will she talk with you about that stuff?"
I explained that since I have always treated it as part of life and very matter of fact, that in her mind it really was no big deal. She did not even know why they were making a special day to talk about it. Then my friend's daughter walked in....discretely opened her back pack zipper, mumbled hi to us, and then walked out of the library with her head down. Two different kids...two different styles of parenting.

Regan on the other hand had "Abstinence" Class......You know I had the puberty talk when I was Rebecca's age.....but sex ed was never discussed til high school in health class. The fact that it is now at junior high level really says something about the state of our country, and how low moral lifestyle has gotten. Now I had already gone over the basics with Regan, so I knew she would not be shocked by anything......BUT I WAS WRONG!!!!!!!

Their talk was anything but basic....she came home naming STD's and types of sex.....I had no idea they were required to discuss different types. I definitely try to be open for the girls to talk to and ask questions.....but, I was practically blushing reading through all the paperwork she brought home. It's enough for me to want to hide my precious child in a tower and guard her closely, maybe I should look into Machu Picchu travel to get her far away from a civilization that wants to discuss Syphillis and Oral with my thirteen year old. She came home completely baffled and confused, because apparently my basics were not nearly enough!