Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Patsey had an extraordinary meeting yesterday with the school on zoom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that time. So Audrey's grade five and they're
Speaker 2: broaching the subject of sex education this year, which I
Speaker 2: think is brilliant that they introduced it in primary school.
Speaker 3: Did your girls have a similar sort of yeah?
Speaker 1: And do you know what? It changes everything, especially as
Speaker 1: a father to daughters, and there's'll be the same for
Speaker 1: Chris as well. They it changes because up until that moment,
Speaker 1: you're just some magic unicorn and then when they know
Speaker 1: what you did. I remember when we had to speak
Speaker 1: to Ruby, our eldest daughter, so she'd be the first
Speaker 1: one to have that up the chat with us and Sam,
Speaker 1: my wife went to say to say, hey, you know
Speaker 1: your dad and I want to have a chat with
Speaker 1: you about sort of the birds and bees something that
Speaker 1: she sort of went okay, didn't quite know what was
Speaker 1: that different? Well, okay, well, why can't we just do
Speaker 1: it now? What's it got to do with dad? To spoiler? Wait,
Speaker 1: do you get a load of what dad did?
Speaker 3: Chris was sitting in on this hour long session and
Speaker 3: I'd look over an hour for an hour, Well, just
Speaker 3: how to talk about it with your kids?
Speaker 2: What is the best approach to, you know, making it
Speaker 2: as less awkward as possible. But he was like breaking
Speaker 2: out in the sweat and also in denial.
Speaker 1: Of like was it arousing him going tend to get
Speaker 1: that out of the slide back, Chris, stop that where
Speaker 1: they get those photos, they use it so much more
Speaker 1: high depth than we had.
Speaker 2: But just I think that realization, like the realization that
Speaker 2: his little.
Speaker 3: Girl is growing up and that there's going to.
Speaker 2: Be interesting in you know, in boys or girls or
Speaker 2: whatever he takes advance.
Speaker 3: It's just happening, you know. So it was good though
Speaker 3: it was informative, but when he got.
Speaker 1: To school and actually giving are actually doing it the
Speaker 1: right way because so many of us it's a humbled
Speaker 1: half conversation from your parents. I remember a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: good friend of mine, but this was the eighties. His
Speaker 1: dad was a local vicar. And here's dad just shoved
Speaker 1: a book under or put it on his bed, and
Speaker 1: he'd stapled together any of the pages had new depots.
Speaker 2: Already.
Speaker 1: There's a strange, so much sort of aw with it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be about our bodies and which is we're all
Speaker 1: here because of that beautiful act union.
Speaker 4: I remember the awkward questionnaire they sent home with us
Speaker 4: at school to ask our parents, and we had to
Speaker 4: return it the next day. What do you mean like
Speaker 4: a Q and a yeah, So have questions like when
Speaker 4: did you start to notice changes in your body? When
Speaker 4: did you notice hair.
Speaker 1: Changes in your body? Suddenly you're thirteen again, you're giggling
Speaker 1: at the back of the class.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know that you have to go home
Speaker 4: and ask mom and dad. So sitting at the kid honestly,
Speaker 4: at the kitchen table before dinner and going so, when
Speaker 4: did you notice hair in new places? Hang with interparents,
Speaker 4: had interview your mum and dad.
Speaker 1: A younger kid wants to talk to their pars about
Speaker 1: let them do it at a press conference? So perhapsly
Speaker 1: when how are they going to be doing it? How
Speaker 1: do people do it? Now? We had to buy a book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've got lots of books. But you know
Speaker 2: we had we had the lady talk, right. I sort
Speaker 2: of broached that subject late last year.
Speaker 1: So when you when you work because we were sort
Speaker 1: of similar age, perhaps were you was it the same
Speaker 1: thing as it was in my school? Right in the eighties?
Speaker 1: Where the boys were siphoned off into the gym. You
Speaker 1: guys love this, nothing bad happening here in the gym
Speaker 1: because we're dudes, right. And then suddenly the old overhead
Speaker 1: projector comes out. There's a picture of basically a six
Speaker 1: foot and everyone's laughing, and I remember the teacher going,
Speaker 1: anyone laughing and we're turning the pictures off.
Speaker 2: No, we had one lesson with our science teacher, mister Smith.
Speaker 1: He had a logical one of those meter sticks banging
Speaker 1: just to go to the rest of it, as if
Speaker 1: we're invading somewhere. I'm here the north.
Speaker 2: All was involved was a banana and something else.
Speaker 1: And they're not still going with the banana.
Speaker 2: No, No, And it's boysing with girls, which I think
Speaker 2: is brilliant because it's important that both sides understand what's
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's great.
Speaker 4: And so when how long till you have to have
Speaker 4: the chat with Well, it's as well.
Speaker 3: It's a progressive thing, Jack. They say to do little bit.
Speaker 1: Start with the breast and then move downstairs. That's enough
Speaker 1: for this month. When we move on to the plumb
Speaker 1: next month.
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