Sex education

I really like the show “Modern Family.”  My 7-year-old daughter happened to be with me last time I watched it.

It turns out that the kids “walk in” on their parents.  Of course, they are traumatized. One daughter even washes her eyes out to try to get rid of the image of what she just saw.  She and her sister, who are the older ones,  try to “shield” the youngest from knowing what happened.

The youngest kid says that he knows what sex is… it’s when people “take off their underpants and climb in bed together.” (Check out the episode here, if you’d like.)

I was trying to turn off the tv while this was going on, and the remote wasn’t cooperating with me.

My daughter said, “Take off their underpants and crawl in bed together?  AWESOME!”

Huh.

She asked, “Did you and Dad do that one time?”

I must have looked like a deer in the headlights for a second.  Then I remembered that honesty is the best policy… and I’ve read all those parenting magazines.

So, I just said, “Yes.”

She then asked, “Do you still do it?”

I said, “Yes.”

And she said, “You do? Even though you’re old?”

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I explained to her then that it was something married people do, and it was private.

(In other words, please don’t go to school tomorrow and tell everyone that your mom and dad take off their underpants and crawl in bed together. )

Told you it was an unusual week, fraught with spring fever!

Have you had the conversations with your kids?  How did you handle it?