What a odd post but I love the random thoughts. @baxter – Soooo sorry about your loss. I thought you might be Andrew and his post about losing his father. What a tragic year for him, you & others on this site that we don't even know about.
I can tell you as a parent of two wonderful, adopted kids, 12 & 7, how thankful I am for them but I will be having the talk as soon as my 12 yd old reaches womanhood like her friends. We did the guardicil vaccinations (I know – controversial). There have been 13-14 yr olds in our small town pregnant & my daughter doesn't even know how it happens yet. Heck, my kids call fart the f-word 😉 luckily my daughter says she wants to adopt like us bc I keep telling her how great it is & how she can't get married til she's 26! I doubt it will work but you never know when kids listen.
@tough kitty- the only people I know who have given young teens bc pills are what I call more pogrssive/liberal in parenting views. They tell me that the kids will do it anyway so why not help protect. Ironically my hairdresser did this & both of her teen daughters got pregnant. She's a grandma @ 38 or 39! Also, most of my more liberal thinking friends let their young kids on fb, get cell phones young, & have limitless electronics. I see it in rich & poor, educated & uneducated.
@ g3. I very much miss the 80's when I grew up. I had a good friend recently miss my b'day which was right before BEC. When she found out, she said, well if you get back on fb I can then remember. I got off when studying got crazy over a yr ago. I thought, what did people do before fb & what about those people not on fb? I put their b'day on my phone calendar or in my address book. I guess that's being an anal accountant 😉
Sorry for the long post. Can you tell I'm just anxiously waiting my last score & doing nothing??? Happy weekend y'all
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