The joys of parenthood-Teenage boy edition

[mathnerd]

The good news is that it seems I'm raising responsible young men.

The bad news is that I found my condom supply completely depleted.

I'm not ready for this yet!

[Sliceanddice]

at least you havent found the porn stash like my parents did.... seriously if my parents don't know im gay im surprised

[mathnerd]

It's internet porn these days, and we had that discussion a couple years ago, after I realized that my oldest had gotten through the password protections on my laptop and I went through the browser history.

[dalesys]

A simple triage evaluation: Which is worse if they get knocked up?
A) Yer girlfriend
B) Yo momma



Kid I knew, his little brother found his stash, blew them up as balloons, and left them all over the house... about 1967 ... Daddy was a knacker ...

[MoonCat]

My sympathies! At least he's using them...

[mathnerd]

The discussion I had with him pretty much boiled down to two things:

1) Taking stuff without permission is stealing, and that's uncool.
2) If you're not mature enough to buy the condoms yourself, or at least ask me to buy them for you, you're not mature enough to be having sex.

ETA: Yes, the part about "at least you're using them", did get mentioned. If there's a sliver lining, this is it.

[MoonCat]

Good points, all...

[jedimaster91]

1) Taking stuff without permission is stealing, and that's uncool.
2) If you're not mature enough to buy the condoms yourself, or at least ask me to buy them for you, you're not mature enough to be having sex.

Yeah, I can see maybe nicking a couple because whoops, things are getting hot and heavy here and we need something now, but after that go freakin buy your own. And put a couple back to replace what you used.

Sorry you had to find out the way you did. But at least you didn't walk in on anyone. That would have been no fun for anyone involved.

[wolfie]

At least that's not as bad as one I heard about regarding a teenage girl and her mother. Teenage girl was having sex, wanted to protect herself, but didn't want her mother to find out. This was in a less paranoid age, when BCP packaging was similar in concept to the Duracell hearing aid battery dispenser (i.e. could be reloaded), rather than the current tamper-evident blister packs.

Teenage girl took her mother's birth control pills, replacing them with baby aspirin (roughly same size and colour). Cue teenage girl acquiring an unexpected sibling.

[mathnerd]

Oh, man. There's no way I could handle another kid. I have my hands full with the three I have! I did have my tubes tied, but as I found out the hard way not to terribly long ago, the failure rate of tubal ligations skyrockets after 10 years.

But yeah, it could have been much worse.

[fireheart]

If there's a family planning centre or a youth health clinic nearby, or even some youth services, see if they will provide free condoms to people. The health clinic near my house did (they also sell female condoms on request) prior to being revamped completely, while the university, some high schools and some youth centres will provide free condoms in bowls for students to take.

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

Not sure if they still do it, but when I was in college it seemed like Durex and Trojan were competing to see who could give schools the most free rubbers. Weekly shipments coming in, cases upon cases.

Heck, one time we got a friggin pallet of cases of durex, something like 80 cases, 1000 rubbers to a case. Nevermind that the student body was only around 1500. And that was only one month!

[fireheart]

Not sure if they still do it, but when I was in college it seemed like Durex and Trojan were competing to see who could give schools the most free rubbers. Weekly shipments coming in, cases upon cases.

Heck, one time we got a friggin pallet of cases of durex, something like 80 cases, 1000 rubbers to a case. Nevermind that the student body was only around 1500. And that was only one month!

Don't worry, I can go one better.

Apparently during one round of the Olympics (I believe it was the Vancouver games), they shipped 100,000 condoms to the village. It wasn't enough.

[Seshat]

Congratulations on raising a responsible and sensible young'un.

Put condoms on the shopping list. Or yes, take kiddo with you to the nearest clinic that gives out free condoms, and make sure he knows how to get there.

[fireheart]

Speaking of the free clinic, may I also suggest taking him there if they hold safe sex sessions if you haven't had the "talk" already? (or his school hasn't) Some sex ed programs don't progress beyond "this is a condom, this is how you use it, don't have sex without it."