I am one of those mothers who does not try to shield my kids from life's realities. I am an open book when it comes to sex. In other words, I don't refer to genitals   as wee-wees and wu wus, and my kids understand that life ultimately ends with death. Of course this is completely antithetical to my upbringing in which we never discussed sex, and my mother attempted to pretend that our lives were … [Read more...]