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From: arndt@lymph.DEC
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Subject: Stopin' Daddy's heart!
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 16:46:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 16:46:38 1985
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I was driving the family around town the other day, mindin' my own business,
when from the rear of the car comes the sweet little voice of my four year
old muppet daughter:

              "How do you make love?"

                        "What?"  (Mom and I look at each other with a sense of
                                  forboding - I had thought I'd have till she
                                  was nine or ten at least.)

              "With your fingers."

                        "WHAT!!"

By this time I was trying to stay on the road and running down the list of all
my daughter's rotten little friends and thinking of selling the house and . . . 

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It took strength to turn around and speak calmly with her about her question.

Turns out she wanted to know how to make the hand sign for LOVE!!!!  Had no
idea of our problem.  Mr. Rogers DIDN'T let me down.

My wife and I screamed and laughed so hard I almost had to pull over and stop
the car.

Sigh.  But those days are comin'.  

How have YOU guys dealt with 'those days'.  "Over to you dear."  "Here's a book,even has some pictures."  "Well dear, you see . . . er . . . there's this littleegg and . . . cough, cough, . . . no, no, I'm all right, now let's see, where
were we . . . oh yes, the egg."

It seems to me that something as important as this, for which WE RECEIVE NO FORMOF FORMAL TRAINING, in really not provided for in most child rearing settings.
I don't mean just 'the facts' but male/female relationships.  We've stressed the'sameness' so much in the recent past, what about he differences?  How do we
tell our boy children to be responsive to the other kind and visa versa?  I hateto think of that 'broad' on the TV teaching my kids 'good sex'.  But where are
they to learn if not from me?  So much of the appeal made to our children,
especially in advertising sends the wrong message I feel about man/woman
relationships and even what it means to BE a man/woman.  What are you telling
your kids.  I expect to TALK to mine about EVERYTHING.  Is that a silly hope?

Comments?

Regards,

Ken Arndt