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"Is Now the Time to Take Off My Pants?"
Julia Sweeney was forced to have "the talk" with her 8-year-old daughter at a Thai restaurant one night, and this is her hilarious version of what went down. It's long but really worth watching all the way to the end.
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I'm sorry that her daughter's name is Mulan. (I think?). But that was fantastic.
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Seems like it's her middle name, and (as if it even matters), she was adopted from China. So I don't know why you would be sorry. FWIW, I'd have no problem with Aurora, Jasmine or Belle as her kid's name either.
that was some funny shit.
this was time well spent. Hilarious. My mom once told me that adults give each other a "special hug" and I didn't think about it again for years. That is so sad because it would've been really funny to put ther in the situation of explaining more.
Ahh yes–there was some parenting book which advocated explaining sex to children this way. My mom mentioned it to me when I was older as a route she decided was not going to use, as she didn't feel the need to muddle hugging. I actually never had a sex talk with my parents though, as I learned that stuff "on the street."
My school had a pretty good sex ed program and I learned everything else there. Parents were invited to the first talk and after that my mom asked if I had any questions. Obviously I said "ewwww moooooom".But what I always remember about the talk is that a guy asked : do we really need to do THAT to have babies?? (we were in 5th grade. Guess he is more enthusiastic about it now)
I was the "smart kid" so everyone believed me when I said with absolutely certainty that the sperm pass through the man's mouth when they kiss and Ben Rathauser was totally lying because penises are for peeing and no girl would ever let a boy pee in her vagina.
@Napoleon until about fourth grade i really did believe that sex was when a man peed into a women's vagina.
How/when you found out about sex stories are hilarious. My mom personally just left age appropriate books in conspicuous places every few years, which my sister and I read in a horrified fascination and then shared with the neighbor kids.
@MishMushkila this is exactly what my parents did, although i could only find the "what's happening to my body book for boys," which, yet again, goes a long way toward explaining why i was very confused for much of my youth.
After I got my "talk" I said "Gross. Maybe they'll figure out a better way to do it by the time I grow up."
This was great not only because Julia Sweeney is HILARIOUS and the subject matter was as always spot-on, but because it led me down a wonderful wonderful rabbit hole to hilariously biased 70s/80s cartoons about "This is what (insert random non main-stream religions) ACTUALLY BELIEVE"
You have to share them now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSlbuli7HM&feature=related
Best part is 03:04
This is hilarious. My husband ended up explaining the whole thing to my eldest daughter and he swears that I have to do it for the next one.
Apparently my six year old's response to "How does the man's contribution get to the egg?" was a resounding "EW."
We're crossing our fingers she maintains that opinion for quite some time.
That was truly hilarious. It reminds me of the time I got stuck in the same situation while driving my 6 year-old around. But somehow I got off on a tangent about abortion and birth control…yikes!