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I wish it was that easy FishermanTim. I think many of us parents try, but no matter how hard most teens will go thru a period where in feeling their maturity and independence they try to distance themselves from their parents. I can go thru an entire week where my conversations with my 15 year old take place in the time she gets home from softball til she quickly chokes down some food and disappears into her room where she's got a PC, a phone, and a TV (with teen shows like The O.C that don't hold much back). She's in her own world. She confides in her mother, just not me. Schools are a help, but maybe part of the problem, I don't know. My girl just got done with about two and a half weeks or rather intensive, according to her, graphic sex ed. The complete how to for teens yearning to get it on. It's no longer, "If your thinking about having sex...", no, now it's "When you have sex, make sure you have protection." I don't like to even think about it happening, but if it takes a condom commercial in the middle of my Sunday dinner to remind some young horney kid who's about to have sex with my daughter that he ought to stop by CVS on the way for a threepack, well so be it. If she asks, I can always make up something so my 9 year old doesn't understand what the commercial is about.
Hey, have a good weekend, folks, I'm going home now to lock my daughter in the basement.
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