<p>Mary, it sort of did. This conversation has been going on since this morning. I believe that we all needed a humerous distraction for a few hours! Read back a few pages…drink at your own risk while doing so.</p>
<p>LOL…I read it and all I can say is I’m glad I’m no longer raising a teenage boy. And also, for some reason, I have a craving for a plate of spaghetti.</p>
<p>Maybe someone should PM eyemamom with a warning lest she bust a stitch. Thinking good thoughts for you, eyemamom, and know that we are doing our part because laughter is the best medicine.</p>
<p>another off subject…</p>
<p>I never applied to, nor would ever have been admitted to a HYPSM school. And I am not the best at grammar, spelling, or punctuation. BUT…I have such a hard time not making a snarky remark when I see students post questions asking why they were rejected from top schools, and their spelling grammar or punctuation is so wrong. And if it bothers me, it MUST be BAD!!</p>
<p>like these:</p>
<p>Why did I get rejected? Are there anyone like me?
Any other super qualified legacy applicant got rejected by Yale</p>
<p>wait…seriously…you guys are talking about this stuff on a website for teens? I come here for college advice, instead I find about cups and Tommy Lee</p>
<p>^^^ this is in the parents forum. And nothing here is inappropriate for teens to read. It has been educational for some of the adults on the forum, and may be educational for any teen that would read it. </p>
<p>Humor is an educational tool.</p>
<p>There’s a famous Foxtrot (by Bill Amend) comic strip where the baseball coach says “Boys, I thought I told you to let the STORE tell you what cup size you needed.” </p>
<p>The teenage boys are all standing in front of him with helmet-sized bulges in the appropriate (inappropriate?) area.</p>
<p>So…very…difficult…to…type…when…giggling…uncontrollably!</p>
<p>Glad both kids are still at school.</p>
<p>Really? Cups are offensive?</p>
<p>Just the idea of someone looking for college advice makes me giggle uncontrollably! Never mind cup sizes.</p>
<p>D is allergic to latex, so I have to do some careful shopping.</p>
<p>Don’t click the link if you don’t really want to see various shapes of condoms. This helps illustrate the descriptions in sizing link posted by vlines. </p>
<p>[About.com:</a> <a href=“http://www.lifestyles.com/sexualhealth/Condoms.html[/url]”>http://www.lifestyles.com/sexualhealth/Condoms.html](<a href=“http://std.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=std&cdn=health&tm=14&f=10&su=p284.13.342.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.lifestyles.com/sexualhealth/Condoms.html]About.com:”>http://std.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=std&cdn=health&tm=14&f=10&su=p284.13.342.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.lifestyles.com/sexualhealth/Condoms.html)</a></p>
<p>Welcome gemini305. We are the happy parents of great 17-19 yo students who are about to go off to college. The decisions are made and we are preparing to send them on their way. Go back to the pages for the months between last May and March and I am sure you will find plenty of the hand wringing angst that is expected. </p>
<p>We wackaloons never ciriticize, never apologize only support, and laugh with each other.</p>
<p>^^ Fave 3 words from that link:
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<p>Gemini: Are you a sloth-hater as well?</p>
<p>family: It sounds perfect for those black tie affairs. Prom night, anyone?</p>
<p>CC is a web site for teens??? Big newsflash… it’s actually a web site for all ages. This particular conversation is in a clearly titled sub-forum called “Parents of the high school class of 2012” which itself is located in the clearly titled “Parents Forum.”</p>
<p>From the web site’s own description:
“College Confidential prides itself in being a reliable resource for parents, students, high school counselors, and college admission professionals by providing unbiased and informative resources and content - asked for and posted by YOU. And we understand that not everyone is going to agree with what is said or commented on this site.”</p>
<p>There’s really no better “college advice” than how to keep yourself healthy and ALIVE from some of the activities you may be doing during your college years. You’re a high school senior. Have your parents discussed this very important subject with you recently? Take good notes and you can thank the very helpful adults in this forum later.</p>
<p>woody, you’re repeating yourself.</p>
<p>CC wouldn’t let me edit earlier post to put in the “shapes” link I was REALLY trying to post!
<a href=“http://www.lifestyles.com/sexualhealth/CondomsShapes.html[/url]”>http://www.lifestyles.com/sexualhealth/CondomsShapes.html</a></p>
<p>But yeah, the “elegant occasions” description was funny.</p>
<p>I might add that this entire discussion was an off-shoot of a very real, serious question for other parents RE sending a child away to college and certain advance preparations.</p>
<p>I have learned a lot.</p>
<p>speaking of which . . . jaylynn, do you have an opinion on different pill “vintages”. Our pediatrician tends to favor the tried and true meds that have been around long enough to outlive the future negative side-effects issue. I know that a number of hormonal contraceptives are now being found to cause issues of one kind an anther. Is there a current thought on those. I have personal experience with the standard ortho-nova and the “mini-pill” that I took between kids.</p>
<p>Well, I prefer low-dose pills for starting young women. I see no reason to use a higher dose than you might need. I like Yaz (now available in many different brand names). The nuvaring and other locally-acting hormonal methods (also the Mirena IUD) are new and effective for many women. Newer IUDs are much less problematic than in the old days, when we’d never have young women use them because of fear of uterine perforation and resulting infertility. They’re totally different and better now. </p>
<p>So I’d guess I’d say in most areas of medicine, the balance between tried and true (but dinosaur-ish) and cutting-edge (with not enough time to assess other issues) usually favors the sorta-new with a few years of data. I tend to go newish than old or brand-newish. </p>
<p>Things that are new on the medical market have already gone through a lot of clinical trials. Every now and then we find something we should have tested longer (the first Rotavirus vaccine, sigh) but usually the data is helpful and germane.</p>
<p>Not sure if I was going to join the birth control discussion…I don’t think it is very good for the body, but a necessary evil. I didn’t send D1 off to college with pills. She came to me when she needed it, and I took her to see a gynecologist. I am going to do the same with D2. I am not going to put her on pills before she needs to. I don’t have any view about when it is ok for kids to be sexually active. I tell my girls to just make sure they have strong feeling about someone before they have sex. I think my girls are kind of late bloomers when it comes to relationships.</p>