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<p>Eek. I sleep, get everyone off to school, clean the stove… and miss three pages of posts about condoms.</p>
<p>oldfort–I love that quote from your D’s speech. Especially the part about experiencing a moment rather than taking a picture of it. I drilled that into a group of teens I took on a spiritual pilgrimage a few years ago–they came back admitting that I was right! :)</p>
<p>About that IB history exam. DS says that there were questions that he wouldn’t even attempt to answer. They didn’t do Canada at all. Did cover Cuba and Mexico I think? He chose three questions on the Constitution, Articles of Confederation, and Civil War.</p>
<p>Only Spanish on Thursday and IB is DONE! Of course today he’s taking the first part of his Chemistry final (separate from last week’s AP exam). I hope he doesn’t have finals in his other classes (they’re all IB–and all seniors whereas there are a bunch of juniors and even a few sophomores in his chem class). The IB kids (30 or so full diploma candidates in a graduating class of 350ish) are having a “burn your notes and roast marshmallows” party this weekend. I told him to not be too hasty about tossing notes. You never know when you might need them!</p>
<p>I forgot about wisdom teeth - aarrrgh. D has dental appt the week after school gets out, so I suppose they will xray and let me know.</p>
<p>S had wisdom teeth out last summer.</p>
<p>Predictably, his grades dropped. (jk 
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<p>Dentist told us a month or so ago to book an appointment with the oral surgeon. Bad parents that we are, we haven’t done it yet. Just another thing to add to the list…</p>
<p>Saintfan - DD is going on the pill, too, starting next month. She was shocked when I brought it up (she should really know me better by now). She’s never really had a boyfriend, but that can change in a heart beat. She’s so excited because she’s very irregular, and can’t wait to be on a schedule (at least I hope that’s all she’s excited about).</p>
<p>Laughed at the I, Claudius reference - DD’s Latin class has been watching the series, and she just loves it. Told her it’s an old Masterpiece series and she couldn’t believe it (she makes fun of me watching Downton Abbey on PBS).</p>
<p>Count me in as a lover of UP, and someone who was totally destroyed when Toy Story 3 came out - the summer before my first went off to college! I was not a pretty sight!</p>
<p>A moment of wackalunacy . . . I read “count me as a lover of UP,” and I was trying to figure out which college that is. It took me a minute and a re-read to figure it out.</p>
<p>LOL, saintfan. Don’t think I ever saw the dramatization of I, Claudius, but I read the book.</p>
<p>Eyewitness fact from many years in retail: a guy or girl buying condoms on their own will buy all kinds of sizes. A young-ish couple buying condoms together will always, always, <strong><em>ALWAYS</em></strong> buy the ones labeled XL size, Super, Magnum size, etc. </p>
<p>Guys apparently never want to reach for the ‘regular’ size when a girl is standing next to them. Sometimes I just
want to tell them that a partner would much more appreciate a properly fitted condom to a loose, leaky one!</p>
<p>woody35 - that is HILARIOUS - as if the girl cannot tell for herself where he falls in the spectrum!</p>
<p>typical child of a nurse my D was only shocked I provided them not ‘icked’ out. She considers me rather uninitiated in my regular life you know the “they only had sex twice to have my sister and me” type of thing. I dont make them think otherwise. anyway, she later told me she had the opportunity to give them to friends. Dont know about now. Dont want to know. I also agree that kids may be too embarrassed to buy them, just buy them and throw them in. My D2 was telling me the other day, how shocking it was that some of her friends do not use birth control. Despite all the classes etc…</p>
<p>So just got called into work on my mandatory time ff to deal with a client. ARGHHH!</p>
<p>maidenMom wrote:
That’s what I was thinking. First box, sure. Any subsequent boxes, the risk of laughter is too great.</p>
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<p>Okay, I must be really naive, but how would a girl know where a guy fell on the spectrum if she was inexperienced? Are girls supposed to google images and try to compare or whip out a ruler?</p>
<p>Last AP exam today. Last band concert tonight. Last music awards dinner Thursday…this is a month of “lasts” for sure. Sigh.</p>
<p>I swear I am not making that up!!! If they already have them, it’s highly doubtful the partner would ever read the box or wrapper. But when shopping for them together, she’s standing right there reading the package sizes too. </p>
<p>So all the sons have the next 3 months to figure out their “real” size so you can help them stock up properly in
advance. It’s not quite the same as buying a t-shirt. 
And now all the parents are going to throw in a box of regular AND Magnum size, just in case!!</p>
<p>Um. I went to med school and stuff and I’ve, uh, had sex and stuff and I did not know that condoms came in different sizes. Swear to God.</p>
<p>And all the 2013-14-15 parents still lurking are now saying, “OMG, two weeks ago they were still freaking out about admission decisions in that 2012 group. Now a bunch of them are buying Day-Glo neon strawberry-flavored XL condoms for their kids.”</p>
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<p>I am thinking there is a market out there for a multi-size starter pack…great 16th birthday present!</p>
<p>size knowledge doesn’t need to come from first hand experience (magazines, porn, pictures, etc), but woody35 just said young couples - young also doesn’t mean NO experiences.</p>
<p>I mean please, if you are in the presence of a jumbo, you know it - also, if you are dealing with quite the opposite of jumbo… you don’t really even need to have seen either before.</p>
<p>I guess it just means woody35 was experiencing the average male trying to “fake out” the girl!!! Reminds me of the joke (I will proceed to butcher as I do every joke’s punch line) wherein the girl is unable to correctly identify how long an inch actually is because her husband has always told (--------) was 9 inches - or something like that!</p>