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Children Learn What They Live: the body image edition

July 26, 2011

I’ve written before about my own journey toward personal self-acceptance a couple of times. Once and Twice This post is about how I want to instill in my children the desire to love, respect, and take care of their bodies in a way I never did and I was younger. My girls and I watch [...]

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Kids Sing The Darndest Things (And Random Musings on S&M)

May 13, 2011

I was driving my daughters and one of Cindy’s friends home from school the other day and I had the radio on. I’m usually listening to NPR or my iPod but my daughter’s friend requested a specific station. When I tuned in to that station after the ads it played Rhianna’s song “S & M”. [...]

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A Sex Educator’s Kid

January 26, 2011

Ok, this is a proud mama moment. Please indulge me and allow me to brag about one of my kids. The other night I was tucking Marcia into bed. She was in a pretty good mood and so was I since it wasn’t too late at night for her to be going to bed. You [...]

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I Found a Condom in the Playroom…

December 10, 2010

I was over at my friend Mike’s house.  I went into his office to look for something when I noticed a condom on the floor in Greg and Bobby’s playroom. It was not used but it was out of the wrapper. I went to ask Mike about it and he said, with a very perplexed [...]

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got wood?

December 7, 2010

I saw an interesting T-shirt on a fourth grader at our elementary school’s campus: It said “got wood?” I understand the “got milk?” ad campaign and how funny that was. This one I just couldn’t get. I had a hard time picturing what that actually was an ad for… Baseball Bats? Carpentry? A new line [...]

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Self-Love

October 15, 2010

My daughter asked me about sex again. Surprise, surprise. Marcia came back to me one day while I was folding laundry on the bed with another whopper of a question… and I was glad she did. She asked me if there were more ways to have sex and not get pregnant. If you recall from [...]

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…with a Bullet

September 22, 2010

True Story.  This is how it all started: I’m in the bathroom one morning brushing my teeth. In walks my eight-year-old Marcia. She is bored because she’s already ready for school and she’s looking for something to pass the time. She absentmindedly opens a drawer where the hairbrushes are and sees my bullet vibrator (I [...]

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