On getting busy
I’m fine except for the fact that my son (10 at the end of the month) is growing up. He’s invited 10 friends to the movies this weekend to celebrate his 10th birthday. He did include 3 girls. To him this just means he’s recognizing them as people, not cootie carriers. So a boy in his class found out he invited 3 girls and told him to get busy, which made my son ask him what that meant. When he heard the other boys answer he got mad because in his words “that’s disgusting”. He came home and told me what happened. When I asked him what get busy meant he said “well you know what you and Dad did after the honeymoon”. I asked what, he said “you know the s word, you do it in bed”. I said sleep?, literally biting my tongue so my jaw wouldn’t hit the floor. He said “no Mom, s-e-x”. So I told him I wanted to be sure as he grows up when there’s something important for him to know about he learn it from us, not other kids his age. I asked him what he thought sex was. He told me “it’s when the boy and the girl take off their shirts and are kissing an touching and stuff, and that it was absolutely vile” (his word). So he and I chatted that when he’s between 20-30 years old and getting married that he’ll feel differently and that it’s how married people express their closeness.
What the hell!!??!! My son is far too young for this. And I’m not dealing with it well, overprotective mother that I am.
