Re: Question for parents of grownups


"dragonlady" <mehouck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mehouck-C13316.09445918092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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?
>

In my parents' household, we respected the wishes of our parents. And if our
wishes collided, we were perfectly free to find ourselves other residence.
Old enough to act like a grown up means old enough to be resonsible like a
grown up.

> 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.
> --
> Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care
>


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