Re: Question for parents of grownups



On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:44:59 GMT, dragonlady
<mehouck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Or, actually, for grownups who have parents, and remember how THEIR
>parents handled this.
>
>For those of you who have kids who are appropriately sexually active
>(and if, for you, that means married -- well, then, kids who are
>married), how do you handle the noise issue?
>
>My daughter is old enough to have made the decision to become sexually
>active; I really have no moral problem with that. However, I'd really
>rather not LISTEN! When I finally suggested to her that there were
>things I'd really rather not hear, her response was that if SHE had to
>listen to her Dad and I . . .
>
>So -- how has this been handled in your households?
>
>I don't think of myself as a prude, and maybe I just have to get over
>it. Her bedroom is right next to the diningroom, and she doesn't have
>sex if we have company.

I am probably NO help, because

1. ?When my kids were little and the heard my husband and I they
would say, "are you making noise again"?

2. Although I consider myself a very liberal parent, I am not at all
sure I would allow the scenario you describe. But then I still have
teenagers at home as well.

.



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