Advice for sons on sex,dating

SBmom
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:03:41 +0000

When my S was in 6th grade some moms called a meeting-- invited most of the class moms. We met for a glass of wine & the agenda was to set some sort of standards about boy/girl group activities so we’d all be on the same page re rules, supervision, etc, & kids couldn’t play the “everyone else’s mom says…” game.

During the meeting the subject of kissing experimentation came up. I said I thought the kissing had to be pretty isolated; I certainly hadn’t got wind of any kissing-- who was involved? Every other mother there stared at me and blurted, “it’s your S!”

Soooooo surprised-- as he was 8" shorter than all the girls that year…

He too has always been a chick magnet but I think it is because he has a very very close relationship with his sister and so relates really well to girls; he can really be their friend. (She relates really well to boys for the same reason.) My S has never not invited girls to his birthday party, even during the 1st-5th grade years when nobody else did this.

My son will be a man who genuinely likes women-- I feel good about that.