Monday, April 28, 2008

Teaching Family Life, pt 4

This posting comes with a content warning.
You should also read the previous 3 postings before this one.
This has been quite a year in Family Life. I am reminded by the questions and comments they have how important this unit is for them. You have to take a step back and really look at these questions to get a hold on what these kids are thinking, wondering, worried, or just plain vexed about. I have had quite a few people -- teachers and non-teachers -- tell me they're glad they don't have to teach this, and well, I have to admit, it's not something I would jump up and volunteer for. But I have my game face and try to make it interesting for them. They are in a vulnerable spot and they are truly clueless!
But who can blame them?
AND I can't say that I had anything like this when I was in 5th grade!

Here's the questions from today's batch of boys.
  1. If one egg comes out, does another one grow?
  2. What if a little egg is stuck?
  3. What causes orgasms? <----------We did NOT talk about this in class!!!!
  4. Why do people stick penises in a vagina?
  5. How do you get the egg out?
  6. Why do girls have a period every 28 days?
  7. Where is the most common place to grow hair more?
  8. What is a vagina?
  9. What is a uterus?
  10. Why do they show something so nasty?
  11. When do you get your baby egg?
  12. Why do sometimes the babies die?
  13. I learned that girls grow hair just like boys do.
  14. What's an umbilical cord?
  15. Do babies come from eggs?
  16. How do you get breasts?
  17. Why do boys have a penis?
  18. How does the baby come out?
  19. Why do they need pads and tampons?
  20. What is a pad or tampon?
  21. Um, why do boys eat more than girls?
  22. How do you know when puberty starts?
  23. If the egg comes out of the women, is there going to be another one in its place?
  24. I thought the boy has the egg and when they have sex then the egg gets delivered.
  25. I learned not to look.
  26. What is a flow? (menstrual)
  27. How do voices crack and what makes them do that?
  28. Has a baby ever come out of a woman's butt?
  29. Can the ovary pop and all of the eggs pop?
  30. Do both fallopian tube eggs come out at the same time?
  31. Does fallopian tube blood go down to the uterine lining?
  32. I learned to be glad to be a boy.
  33. What happens when a girl has her period at the same time she has sex?
  34. How many eggs does an ovary have?
  35. If a tampon gets stuck in the vagina, does it bleed and you die?
  36. Where does the milk come from?
  37. When you have a period and the baby is inside, does it hurt the baby?
  38. What if one woman's breast were really big and what if they don't have a size [bra] for it?
  39. What will happen if the egg gets stuck in the fallopian tube?
  40. Does it hurt when a girl bleeds?
  41. I learned what a bra is.
  42. Where will the sperm go if there is no egg?
  43. How can baby twins be in the same place?
  44. When the egg gets fertilized, what happens to the other eggs?
  45. So, young girls get periods, like when they're 9 and older?
  46. Does it hurt when you put a tampon in a vagina?
  47. What does a vagina look like?
  48. Can you get a boy pregnant?
  49. What happens if a woman is pregnant and she doesn't look like it, but a man sperms her, will it affect the baby?
  50. What if a woman runs out of eggs?
  51. Is it true leftover food turns out to be poo in the body?
  52. Why do they show nasty stuff?
  53. What does it mean when you pee and it hurts?
  54. If you have sex twice, do you have two kids?
  55. What is the difference between cow milk and woman's milk?
  56. What is a dick?
  57. Does it hurt a girl when the blood comes out of her?
  58. What would happen if the fallopian tube got clogged up?
  59. How does the sperm meet the vagina?

4 comments:

Artful Kisser said...

"How does the sperm meet the vagina?" Funny. The vagina says to the sperm "What's a spunk like you doing in a place like this?" Spunk means something totally different here...

cruisin-mom said...

Wow...you have your work cut out for you! Do. not. envy. you.

Anonymous said...

So are you done now with teaching this fun stuff? For your sake I hope so, ha ha! Although it was very entertaining reading about it...hey did you already buy your tickets to the UK? I wanted to go to Europe this fall but I waited too long and it's crazy expensive now! I'm jealous of you!

Arrrteest said...

Hey artful kisser: I got curious about what spunk meant in Australia, so Wiki to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spunk
I didn't realize it meant so many things!
Cruisin-mom: Hello there! LOL, it's all good. for. a. laugh. (afterwards).
Senta...got a wee bit more to cover (no, we don't discuss condoms, birth control or how to correct mistakes once the hangover is lifts)!
You can travel vicariously with my -- I will try to blog about my travels.