Guest Blog Post #1 – From Dave S.   

First in a series of guest blog posts about parenting.

This is a request for advice: I am discussing Modern Love with my teen boys.  Any input from the 11D peanut gallery about things I am missing would be appreciated.  I’ve been trying to cover the stuff I think they may not have heard otherwise.  The local schools have been doing their bit on the  Birds and Bees: sperms!  eggs!  a condom over a wooden  penis!  vigorous discussion of STDs! Abstinence!  Be scared, be very scared.  This is all very well, but as near as I can tell, there has been no moral discussion, nor any sense of romance or excitement.  

So I’ve made the following points, in no particular order – usually when driving, since  the last thing they want is to hear their old Dad talking about girls, and sex, and desire, and romance.  When we are going 25, and there are no available screens,  they can't escape.

1.  We have gotten you guys Gardasil.  Okay, but this protects against only two of the four strains of HPV.  HPV can lead to throat or anal cancer for you in thirty years, and it can make you the mechanism by which a girl for whom you care has gotten vaginal warts and a risk of later cancer.  Don’t be silly, wrap your willy.

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