I've read a couple and one of them was quite graphic.
And yes, clinical terms. Do they help? If you're explaining to children it should be done in their own language rather than using something that will fly over their heads rendering the whole thing pointless.
Haha, I feel parenting takes away only the bad memories. Or manage to warp them. Because parents never forget to remind you of how well-behaved they were at your age. And all the nice things they did.
I think it has to do with the concept of giving your children what you never had, only in a crooked, reversed kinda way, you know? Like, I did wonder, but my kids won't because they're not me and times are different and I'm not parents and all that, so it would actually be more like "don't make the same mistakes that I made"... I sort of agree with you there. Sometimes even I think that you know I'd never do the same thing my mum did. But sometimes I find myself thinking like her. We delude ourselves into believing things will be different. But I guess things are. There has been a generation change and what seemed like a big deal to us is not new for them so when we allow our kids to do things we didn't, it's something they would have done anyway. And they want to do things we as parents would generally be worried about. So yeah, I get that, its never going to change but one can hope the genX wom't completely freak us out.
Okay, the one time my mum spoke to me about sex, it was anything but romanticised. And not at all glossed over and to tell you the truth, creepy. But then again, she was mad at me, so it was supposed to be all that. But yeah, it is sorta idealised to be what it isn't.
I don't exactly know what you mean by nudity factors?!
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Date: 2007-09-19 07:54 pm (UTC)And yes, clinical terms. Do they help? If you're explaining to children it should be done in their own language rather than using something that will fly over their heads rendering the whole thing pointless.
Haha, I feel parenting takes away only the bad memories. Or manage to warp them. Because parents never forget to remind you of how well-behaved they were at your age. And all the nice things they did.
I sort of agree with you there. Sometimes even I think that you know I'd never do the same thing my mum did. But sometimes I find myself thinking like her. We delude ourselves into believing things will be different. But I guess things are. There has been a generation change and what seemed like a big deal to us is not new for them so when we allow our kids to do things we didn't, it's something they would have done anyway. And they want to do things we as parents would generally be worried about. So yeah, I get that, its never going to change but one can hope the genX wom't completely freak us out.
Okay, the one time my mum spoke to me about sex, it was anything but romanticised. And not at all glossed over and to tell you the truth, creepy. But then again, she was mad at me, so it was supposed to be all that. But yeah, it is sorta idealised to be what it isn't.
I don't exactly know what you mean by nudity factors?!