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Use this thread to share those times when you dole out wisdom to your springs.  I am already  reallywise so any advice you give your kids will already be old news to me, but I just hope to be momentarily entertained by occasions in which you screw up your kids.

Here's mine:

The other day my kid says, "Kyle at school says that instead of fast food they should call it fat food and the people who work there are stupid bums."  Obviously Kyle is repeating his parents.

I told my son, "You should never make fun of someone who is working an honest job."

There.  Now you go.

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Fuck verbal resolution.
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Fuck verbal resolution.

If they can talk back, you haven't told them hard enough yet.
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So what do you say when your 8 year old asks why he gets morning wood?

My response was, "That just happens to guys sometimes."

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Since I'm not even sure why guys get morning wood, sounds like a good enough answer to me.
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We are approaching "the talk." n He's pretty smart and asks some pretty direct questions, sometimes.

And the other day at Disney he kept seeing bugs "with their butts stuck together."

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In my experience, answer just what they ask.  Sometimes they dig deeper, but often times when you answer the question they ask directly without a lot of extra commentary, then they're good to go.

My first ex had the problem of wanting to answer far more than was asked.
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"Look at those bugs, why are their butts stuck together?"

"That is how they make baby bugs.  They are giving each other a butt hug."

"Oh."

Sometimes I worry that my being so funny is going to screw him up.

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(W about to have sex for the first time)
Girl: But, W, what if I get pregnant?
W: Don't worry, that only happens if we stick out butts together.

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When this originally came up I went to one of the many internet educational channels I support with the question to see what she had to say.  Here's the result (when she reads a quote off her phone, that's me she's quoting).  I suspect some of the details will be disagreed with here, but the overall message of using non-judgmental non-panicked honesty seems sound.

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We got this book for our kids when our oldest turned 4 or 5.

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scaredy cat ;-)
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scaredy cat ;-)

Me?

Who do you think had to then read them that book?

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Heheh...

So really... how uncomfortable was it?  Sounds like the book made it a lot easier for you?
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Heheh...

So really... how uncomfortable was it?  Sounds like the book made it a lot easier for you?

It was somewhat uncomfortable.  The book did make it easier.  It was like having a script for The Talk.

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The nugget my oldest got this week was "sometimes we do things we don't like to do," after we reviewed her spelling test results, which she hasn't been practicing for.

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It was like having a script for The Talk.

That actually makes a lot of sense.
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The nice part is that it's written to that age.  They have a series of books, one for 4-7, one for 8-12, and one for >12, I think.  So yeah, it was uncomfortable, but I think it went well.

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