Explaining "the birds and the bees" these days....

[jujube]

I really feel sorry for parents today who have to have "the birds and the bees" talk with their kids these days.

Back in our days, it was fairly easy. There were birds and there were bees.

Parents today have to explain not only the birds and the bees, but also the birds and the birds, the bees and the bees, the birds that used to be birds but are now bees and vice versa, the birds who dress like bees but are still birds and the opposite, the bees that look like birds but still have stingers, and every variation therein.

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Not original, I'm sorry to say. It was passed on to me and I laughed my head off.

 

[papa tiger]

MSN

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I think there's always a kid in school that beats parents to the birds and bees thing. Mine was Jeffry in the 5th grade.

 

[Jace]

Yes, it is a different world.

 

[George1959]

And the farm kids laughed about all this stuff, since they had seen it already in all details at a very young age.

 

[CallMeKate]

I think there's always a kid in school that beats parents to the birds and bees thing. Mine was Jeffry in the 5th grade.

Holly... probably 4th or 5th grade. Assured me that a girl can't get pregnant by just kissing a boy. And then went on to tell me in great detail what would have to happen. I figured she was lying and purposely trying to mortify me.

 

[Pepper]

A lot of answers must wait for the question from the child. Child should see normalcy in what others our age condemn. Like a gay couple> I wouldn't bring it up unless directly asked. Or, if you hear child quoting misinformation .Then I would correct. Husband taught son, so I was relieved of this duty.

 

[George1959]

Holly... probably 4th or 5th grade. Assured me that a girl can't get pregnant by just kissing a boy. And then went on to tell me in great detail what would have to happen. I figured she was lying and purposely trying to mortify me.

This was not uncommon. My mother told me as she was learning to become a nurse in the early 1950s, some of her colleagues also still believed this.

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Flarbalard]

How many here actually got the talk? I didn't. Honestly don't remember how the bits and pieces came together. Some of my friends got a pamphlet from their doctor that used words like "special embrace". By the time 7th grade came around, we had the basic education of human anatomy and plumbing with pictures ( artist's drawings). By that time I don't think any of that was news to anyone. One or two years later the text books were replaced with new full color ones, the only mention of sex was salmon spawning. My classmates thought that was pretty silly.

 

[Aunt Bea]

How many here actually got the talk?

i didn’t get the talk.

My mother was like the old lady that said:
“I never fooled around with sex, that was your father’s department!”.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

This is why all kids should spend time on a farm. I still remember telling kids in 3-4th grade how dogs, hogs, goats, and chickens mate. There are adults today that have no clue how chickens' eggs are fertilized or what a cloaca and vent are.

@George1959 "My mother told me as she was learning to become a nurse in the early 1950s, some of her colleagues also still believed this".

Perhaps some of her colleagues came from a farm where chickens mating is called "kissing"? That is how two chickens fertilize eggs, they do a "kiss" with their vents pressed together, the male transferring sperm to the female.

 

[horseless carriage]

The Birds & Bees Talk, 2025.
A little boy goes to his father and asks, “Daddy, how was I born?” The father answers,
“Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, and googled each other. There your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said: 'You've got a male!'”

 

[horseless carriage]

i didn’t get the talk.

My mother was like the old lady that said:
“I never fooled around with sex, that was your father’s department!”.

During the English class, the teacher asked, "can anyone define a pessimist?" Young James at the back of the class stood up and said, "a pessimist is what married people use to prevent a pregnancy." "That's terrible James!" The teacher exclaimed, "and furthermore it's wrong." Then she asked the class: "What is an optimist?" Danny stood up and said, "an optimist is a guy who doesn't use a pessimist."

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

I had two 8 week old kittens left of a litter, I was giving away back in 1979. I had named them "Tom" and "Jeri" as that was my 3 year old's favorite cartoon characters at the time.

My very smart precocious 3 year old daughter wanted to know: "How do you know 'Tom' is a boy and how do you know 'Jeri' is a girl, Mommy?" I believed in answering honestly and with the correct medical terminology, so I flipped each kitten over to expose the sex of each kitten and explained to "Miss Curious" pointing out that Tom had: "a *****" and Jeri had this "a ******". So for the next week she practiced her new words of course.

One Sunday after church an elderly Hispanic couple, dressed in their Sunday best knocked on my door. When I answered the door my three year old popped her head around my skirt looking up at the elderly couple in the doorway to see who it was at the door. The gentleman said they were there to "see the kittens".

Before I could say a word, my 3 year old says: "We only have TWO kittens left, Tom and Jeri!! And TOM is a boy because he has a ***** and Jeri is a girl because she has a ******!!".

I nearly died on the spot.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

This is so weird..I use the correct MEDICAL terminology of *agina and *enis and some computer program thinks that is going to offend someone of us. That is sooo funny: old boomers offended by the PROPER names of our sex organs. What will be deleted out next: phalanges? Nares? I don't USE another word for those two more crude nomenclature such a cock (as in male bird) and a pussy (as in a putty tat?).

Mutt and Jeff. New words for sex organs.

This is going to be a great day as I got no sleep due to police helicopters very busy between 2 and 5:30! Am punchy from lack of sleep.
Maybe it is Los Federales...we are close to the border....

 

[CallMeKate]

This is so weird..I use the correct MEDICAL terminology of *agina and *enis and some computer program thinks that is going to offend someone of us. That is sooo funny: old boomers offended by the PROPER names of our sex organs.

Assuming it doesn't have anything to do with "boomers" being offended but rather all to do with analytics and SEO for the search engines.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

i didn’t get the talk.

My mother was like the old lady that said:
“I never fooled around with sex, that was your father’s department!”.

I never got the "talk" either. The only sexual thing my parents ever said, was my mom, as I was leaving for the senior prom. She said, " You get her pregnant, don't come crying to us about it."

 

[Mr. Ed]

My parents were too absorbed in the church to disclose anything meaningful to me.

 

[George1959]

This is so weird..I use the correct MEDICAL terminology of *agina and *enis and some computer program thinks that is going to offend someone of us. That is sooo funny: old boomers offended by the PROPER names of our sex organs. What will be deleted out next: phalanges? Nares? I don't USE another word for those two more crude nomenclature such a cock (as in male bird) and a pussy (as in a putty tat?).

Mutt and Jeff. New words for sex organs.

This is going to be a great day as I got no sleep due to police helicopters very busy between 2 and 5:30! Am punchy from lack of sleep.
Maybe it is Los Federales...we are close to the border....

In fact it is weird that calling sex organs by their correct name gets censored. Or should we use "cu.t" and "dick" instead?

 

[Oldeagle66]

At a young age my Dad knew I already figured it myself. He just told me don't get a girl pregnant because this family isn't taking care of any babies. End of talk.

 

[Paco Dennis]

I can't find the "bird" thread.?

 

[George1959]

I can't find the "bird" thread.?

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You can't find the bird thread?

At least here is the bird threat:

 

[Elsie]

My pedophile first stepfather taught me sex when I was around 6 years old. Don't know if he ended up in prison.

 

[Capt Lightning]