[worry]

More seriously though, 14 is old enough for some pretty frank sex ed/the 'talk'.

[Puck]

The Swampfather, on 23 February 2018 - 10:33 PM, said:

Someone help me. My daughter is at her friends house to spend the night and the friends cousin is her boyfriend who is there at the moment. If I find out this little shit is staying the night heaven help them. This is not a good feeling. Better be some outstanding parental supervision going on. I maybe sick. The things I did at 14... I should not think about that right now. That may lead to me freaking out way to much.

Chill. You did them and you're still here. Also, what worry said. If you know she has a boyfriend, have the talk. Then let her learn how to be responsible and to trust you to trust her. Which means she will come to you and talk should there be an issue, rather than hide it.

Messing with my groove is that I'm still sick. Two weeks now. At least the antibiotics are finally working.

[Tiste Simeon]

Surveillance cameras. Surveillance cameras everywhere. It's your only option BK.

[Mentalist]

I had to take work home. I'll need to do it, either today or tomorrow. Preferably today, because i'm likely to be hungover-ish tomorrow.

But instead i'm procrastinating, And cleaning. Argh.

[worry]

Tiste Simeon, on 24 February 2018 - 06:28 PM, said:

Surveillance cameras. Surveillance cameras everywhere. It's your only option BK.

Is this what they mean by "lie back and think of England"?

[worry]

By sheer coincidence I asked another board I go to if they got the talk, and if so, how it went. The results were 10% Yes, 21% Sorta, and 69% No (w/ 72 votes). A little shocking tbh.

[Tsundoku]

My parents borrowed the "Where Did I come From?" book from the town library and pretty much left me to read it when I was about 8.

https://www.booktopi...ASABEgL8lPD_BwE

After that I dimly recall asking a few clarification questions and that was about it until Human Development class around year 7-8 (age 12-13). Aside from the usual lurid (and highly improbable) stories from the playground bullshit artists.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 24 February 2018 - 11:23 PM

[Puck]

We had sex ed in third or fourth grade, can't remember for sure. Was 10 at that point, I think. That was waaay before any of that information could've mattered and is one thing I consider great about the German school system. Since my mom knew, she never tried the talk.

[Andorion]

We had no institutionalised sex education whatsoever, only an oddly detailed lecture on the reproductive system of frogs

What my school did have was an excellent set of encyclopaedias. So just like all the other issues I was curious about, I just looked this one up as well. By the time my mother talked to me, which was around 14, I had a basic idea.

[worry]

I just asked the Yes/No/Sorta question, nothing more specific.

I had two layers of sex ed: the basics of sperm/eggs/etc. in 5th grade, which was just like, separate the boys and girls and make them watch separate videos. And then in 7th grade there was a more prolonged few days in science class, with anonymous written questions the kids could ask at the end for "honest answers".

[Andorion]

I had a stroke of bad luck today.

I was out for a walk with my SO, when I stepped onto the grassy verge and straight onto a 2 inch long iron nail. It stabbed clean through my shoe and right into the centre of my foot. I managed to get the shoe off, but it was bleeding a lot.

My SO kept her head, and got me the medical attention I needed. Thing is I am now stuck with a rather painful foot I can't walk on at all. Guess I have to take a couple of days off.

[Slow Ben]

Had a tetanus shot lately?

[Abyss]

Or radioactive nail superpowers?

[Morgoth]

And so he gained the power to fasten a piece of wood to another piece of wood.

[Andorion]

Slow Ben, on 25 February 2018 - 05:39 PM, said:

Had a tetanus shot lately?

Got an inject about an hour after the accident. Also taking antibiotics. It was a big rusty old nail.

Abyss, on 25 February 2018 - 06:54 PM, said:

Or radioactive nail superpowers?

Does hopping on one foot for rather short distances count?

[Tsundoku]

Andorion, on 27 February 2018 - 12:51 AM, said:

Does hopping on one foot for rather short distances count?

Lame.

[Coltaine -]

Andorion, on 27 February 2018 - 12:51 AM, said:

Abyss, on 25 February 2018 - 06:54 PM, said:

Or radioactive nail superpowers?

Does hopping on one foot for rather short distances count?

Maybe it needs a few more days to develop ^^

Get well soon

[Abyss]

- Coltaine -, on 27 February 2018 - 07:59 AM, said:

Andorion, on 27 February 2018 - 12:51 AM, said:

Abyss, on 25 February 2018 - 06:54 PM, said:

Or radioactive nail superpowers?

Does hopping on one foot for rather short distances count?

Maybe it needs a few more days step up.

FTFY.

[Dutch]

Andorion, on 27 February 2018 - 12:51 AM, said:

Slow Ben, on 25 February 2018 - 05:39 PM, said:

Had a tetanus shot lately?

Got an inject about an hour after the accident. Also taking antibiotics. It was a big rusty old nail.

Abyss, on 25 February 2018 - 06:54 PM, said:

Or radioactive nail superpowers?

Does hopping on one foot for rather short distances count?

My brother had this when I was a kid.The doctor actually said it better can be a rusty nail then a new one, can't remember why though.

I hope that it gets well soon.

[Abyss]

Dutch, on 27 February 2018 - 07:26 PM, said:

Andorion, on 27 February 2018 - 12:51 AM, said:

Slow Ben, on 25 February 2018 - 05:39 PM, said:

Had a tetanus shot lately?

Got an inject about an hour after the accident. Also taking antibiotics. It was a big rusty old nail.

Abyss, on 25 February 2018 - 06:54 PM, said:

Or radioactive nail superpowers?

Does hopping on one foot for rather short distances count?

My brother had this when I was a kid.The doctor actually said it better can be a rusty nail then a new one, can't remember why though.

The doctor was a serial killer?