The Big Talk

Okay, I hope this doesn't offend anyone that I choose to blog about this, but I feel if it will help others dreading their own upcoming "Talk", than yeah!  Some of you know I've been talking about this and sweating over this ever since Alex turned eight, (now she's almost nine!) . . . The Big Talk. . . S-E-X!!  #*&#$*!!#!!!!  I've been putting it off and putting it off and putting it off, thinking maybe some smart kid at school will just tell her and we'll be off the hook, right?  Well, that's exactly what we were trying to avoid. 

I read the book by Richard and Linda Eyre, "How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex". It says that, nowadays, age eight is the time to tell them because of this crazy world we live in.  I was never given "The Big Talk" growing up, so you can only imagine what my wedding night was like! (ha ha, jk)  Anyway, I had nothing to base this talk on and that's why I was freaking out a bit.  The Eyres' book really helped.  They also suggest you have your eight year old read a book called, "Where Did I Come From", which I got and read.  I don't know if it's me and my giggles, but chubby cartoon characters with certain body parts explaining and showing the process was a little too much for me.  So Dave, the Great, suggested we just sit down with her and tell her ourselves. We can do it!  Okey dokey!!  So we hyped it up a little to Al and said we had a special night planned for her, and that we were going to take her out to dinner and a movie and talk to her about something really, really great and amazing.  So before dinner and a movie we stopped at the Mount Timpanogos temple and had our "talk" out on the grass, sweaty palms and all!  Dave took the lead and did a great job!  He started with explaining how Heavenly Father gives us gifts and how wonderful families are to names of body parts and how babies are made to how important it is that we're married in the temple and be committed to eachother.  I did have to nudge him with my foot at one point when he started saying how fun it was and different positions he liked . . . Totally kidding.   Other than that, it really wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be.  Alex took it surprisingly well and in the end thought it was weird . . . Awesome!  We did it!  One down and two to go. . . But seriously, it ended up being a really great positive spiritual experience and we survived!