From Miss Grace, an illustrated guide of bra theory vs. bra reality. Funny AND funny AND true.
Sam is asking for advice: should you tell someone else’s child about sex? should you help that child access birth control? It’s a very thought-provoking topic—as you can see from my multi-paragraph comment on that post. I COULD NOT STOP.
My cousin Lee brought Tonight, Tonight to my attention:
Now whenever anything happens I’m tempted to obsess about, I sing “La la la, whatever! La la la, it doesn’t matter!” Listen to just the first 30 seconds so you have the tune in your head if I want to sing it in a post.
I really like that song! Very catchy.
thanks for the earworm
;-)
The best thing about this song (apart from that fact that it’s happy and cute and unbelievably catchy) is, in my opinion, the guitarist (bassist? Lord, I suck at all things musical!)- the one who is not the-guy-from-Glee’s-brother, the other one with longish dark hair, lovely eyes and a cute smile (and weird knitted hood-cowl thing)… I’ve got this in my YouTube list along with the song you linked to the other day – Plain White T’s. Both nice, happy songs for summer!
re: the teenager and sex — Since I don’t know that blogger, I am going to comment here instead.
I would be furious if someone took it upon themselves to take my kid to Planned Parenthood. FURIOUS. Overall, I would be livid if someone took it upon themselves to ingratiate themselves into my children’s lives without my knowledge over ANYTHING so very serious. And I am a Libertarian, fully intending to teach my kids about sex and protection.
I live in the Bible Belt and believe me, it can swing the opposite direction. I’ve already got one neighbor telling my son his version of religion and what is and is not acceptable. It’s just a matter of time before this kid tells my son about needing Jesus or else he’s doomed. I’m already dealing with questions from my son such as “Why does god hate Halloween? Zach said God hates Halloween. Maybe we shouldn’t be celebrating it, Mama.” Sigh.
However, I do think it would be appropriate for the parent to respectfully and gently tell the other parents about what the child is contemplating.
Cagey- I had a really hard time figuring out what I thought about it. I really really really think parents shouldn’t interfere in other parents’ parenting. But at some point in the teens, the child is becoming an adult, and is starting to make their own decisions, and it’s time for me to start allowing that (not that I could stop it!)—and some of those decisions might involve my child consulting other adults and/or asking them for help.
I think the difference for me lies in who approaches whom: if my teenager approaches the other parent, or if the other parent is taking the initiative with my child. The former seems like it has to happen with some things: the child is getting toward adulthood and needs to work out their own solutions for their own decisions. The latter seems completely unacceptable.
Love the song…. the guy with the really blonde hair is on Glee…but what did someone say about the brother of someone on glee? Is it Darren Criss’s brother? does it say the name of the band? hope so..I’ll check again.
About telling other children stuff… If a child/young adult asked me for help or had some questions…. I guess it would depend on what the question was, if the child is in danger, if the parents are willing to help? I don’t know…so many variables…tough question.
Thanks for the link love. I’ll be updating on the situation soon.
Doxie – the guy in the band with the pink hair is the brother of the guy in Glee (Nash and Chord Overstreet, respectively). Other than that, the lead singer and drummer in the band are also brothers. And it’s the fourth member that I think is really cute!
Ah, and the band is called Hot Chelle Rae, by the way. I really like another song of theirs, though it’s not so summer-happy-happy-catchy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l6HE4cmXfI&feature=relmfu
Thanks for the info, Magic27, I was wondering whether it was the guy from Glee as well. Nash and Chord…those would be good names to keep in the back pocket for the baby names blog :)
Swistle, it’s such a tough call and maybe I would/will change my mind. This made me think a lot, so there is that, right? The thinking?
I posted an update on my blog!
Thank you for the video, I now have “la la la whatever” in my head and it makes me feel better.