Yesterday, our Whit Honea shared a piece on his personal family site about a company called Amaze that helps parents and kids have “the talk.” You know the one. Here is an excerpt:
Which means the onus is on us, the parents, where, if I remember the contract correctly, is how it is supposed to be. Nobody does awkward like parents.
When I was a kid we never had “the talk,” at least not in the traditional sense. There weren’t any birds or bees, but rather a book that I was told to read at my leisure and discuss as needed, which, obviously, was never. In fact, the closest we ever came to finishing that conversation was a few years later when my parents found a stash of inappropriate magazines under my bed, but with more yelling. All I learned from that experience was how to hide things better.
Years ago, when the boys were still in elementary school, we had, unexpectedly, needed to set our talk in motion, but it was reactionary and gossip-driven, not the professional wisdom that I planned to share in a moment of fatherhood brilliance. Then there was the school video. Then I bought a book.
We have cable. My work here is done.
But not really. Talking to kids about the wide world of sexuality, weird as it may seem at the time, is important. It normalizes normal things and provides the information that will become the cornerstone of later decisions. It isn’t all storks in the cabbage patch, but real facts that lead to real understanding, and yet it is bigger still. There are topics of gender identity, consent, communication, relationships, respect and a rainbow of labels that society likes to sew into our underpants. It can be overwhelming.
And then he went on about Amaze and how amazing it is, because he couldn’t resist. And it is. Then videos:
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