The Talk.

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fushingfeef

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My parents didn't tell me anything about that, but I had 5 older sisters who told me from a very early age, I can't remember not knowing!

My policy with my own daughters is to answer their questions honestly (and also to encourage them think about it if it's a question that doesn't have an answer). So the older one knows, and the younger one has yet to ask.
 

SharonC

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I learned everything in the gutter, where most kids of my generation did. Things like that were not talked about at home. My poor mom was so old fashioned and embarrassed about the whole sex thing. I remember sending away to Kimberly Clarke (Remember their little booklets?). I thought it was great that I could swim and horseback ride and stuff. How naïve we were!
 

skimom2

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Nothing from the parentals. There was a maturation thingy in 5th grade, but I'd already picked up most of the info anyway. With my own kids, the policy is to answer honestly (but within what the kid can understand) whatever questions they care to ask. I volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center for years and they cam with me, so they picked up a LOT there.
 

swiftdog2.0

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What, you mean that god awful show on ABC?

Seriously though, nothing from the 'rents. Got the formal 'deets from the Health and Human Development courses they started giving us in 5th grade. That and Cinemax Friday After Dark ;;D
 

PatInTheHat

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Nah no "talk", not much need, Mama caught me a'doin it on the hill behind the house...well thats not quite true, there was a talk alright alright, just not, "the talk", and I suppose if only one is doing all the ' talking', and another shaking their head up and down or side to side as seemed necessary, judged primarily by the others tone and volume of the 'talker', a talk, then yeah sure, I guess we had one:a11:
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Grandpa

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Dad came in my room one night and just started talking about it. It was awkward, but he had things to say I didn't know.

With our kids, we just addressed the questions as they came up. Between that and what they learned at school and from other kids, there wasn't really one definitive talk. Pretty much. I do remember driving my young daughter home one night, and some conversation came up, and I was explaining things, and she asked me to detour on the way home so we'd have more time to talk. That one had to do with hormones and development and body hair and menstruation, not all of which she knew (I think), so I felt pretty good about it. Grandma had a little regret that it didn't come up during one of their conversations, but she was just glad the information got across.
 

arista

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We had the film-Where guys went in one room and the girls the next. They showed this girl who one week could not purchase the junior high clothes, because she did not fit into them. The next week after her "period" she got to purchase the clothes due to filling them out.
 

AnnaMarie

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Our school prepared us, starting in 5th grade. We all watched a video about puberty, then the boys went to one room and got the talk about boners and wet dreams and the girls got the talk about boobies and periods. Then they sent us home with an info booklet and a pad sample. I think most of us kids were too busy laughing over the technical terms to take it real seriously...

We didn't have a video. We had a film strip. (Anyone not know what that it?)

And there were these tadpole things....they were HUGE. I mean, they were as big as the screen.

And before the teacher actually had the opportunity to put it all in context and answer questions....some one told their mom what we were learning and the principal put a stop to that.

I think that was when I decided I would be a nun. Much safer. Still don't like frogs or tadpoles.