Is it a big deal if your kids catch you in the act?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New house.

Double door to the bedroom. (Never has one of these before...)

Harvard educated husband thought he locked it but “forgot” about the top latch to the right side door.

DS, 12, walked in at about noon on a Saturday.

#mortified

You should have married an MIT alum. They understand mechanical systems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New house.

Double door to the bedroom. (Never has one of these before...)

Harvard educated husband thought he locked it but “forgot” about the top latch to the right side door.

DS, 12, walked in at about noon on a Saturday.

#mortified

You should have married an MIT alum. They understand mechanical systems.

LOL, yes.

[Anonymous]

It's a natural act. They are going to learn about it sooner or later and it's good that they know their parents had a healthy, active sex life. They wouldn't be here without the act. Grow up people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New house.

Double door to the bedroom. (Never has one of these before...)

Harvard educated husband thought he locked it but “forgot” about the top latch to the right side door.

DS, 12, walked in at about noon on a Saturday.

#mortified

You should have married an MIT alum. They understand mechanical systems.

Teach kids to knock before walking into a room. 12 year old just bursts in?

[Anonymous]

Our kids are older, young adults, and I have no desire for them to catch us in the act. But if they did I wouldn’t be thrilled but I’d be OK with them realizing that their parents still have a very active sex life. We may be 60+ but we are far from dead and we still love each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New house.

Double door to the bedroom. (Never has one of these before...)

Harvard educated husband thought he locked it but “forgot” about the top latch to the right side door.

DS, 12, walked in at about noon on a Saturday.

#mortified

You should have married an MIT alum. They understand mechanical systems.

Teach kids to knock before walking into a room. 12 year old just bursts in?

Noon on a Saturday? My kids would not be knocking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New house.

Double door to the bedroom. (Never has one of these before...)

Harvard educated husband thought he locked it but “forgot” about the top latch to the right side door.

DS, 12, walked in at about noon on a Saturday.

#mortified

You should have married an MIT alum. They understand mechanical systems.

Teach kids to knock before walking into a room. 12 year old just bursts in?

Noon on a Saturday? My kids would not be knocking.

Mine would because we’ve taught them to respect boundaries and other people’s space.

[Anonymous]

Do you remember the scene in The Americans when the daughter catches her parents doing a certain act in their bedroom? That happened to us once when we forgot to lock the door but I’m thankful my son was only four at the time.

[Anonymous]

3 year old walked in on us. We were in a vacation rental, no lock on the door, and we thought he was still napping.

I walked in on my parents as a teen. I was out, their loud air conditioner was on and they didn't hear me come in the house. I knocked on their door but didn't wait for a response because I assumed their door was closed because of the a/c. I remember this clearly - my parents have blocked out the memory.

It's not the end of the world for anyone involved, but don't make it a regular thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our kids are older, young adults, and I have no desire for them to catch us in the act. But if they did I wouldn’t be thrilled but I’d be OK with them realizing that their parents still have a very active sex life. We may be 60+ but we are far from dead and we still love each other.

I actually don't think that our kids need to know this about us. It's more important to establish healthy boundaries. You can show physical affection for your spouse in front of your kids (hug, snuggle, kiss) w/o actually getting it on in front of them.

Lock your bedroom/bathroom door and tell your kids to always knock first.

[Anonymous]

You guys do know that all over the world, right now, people are having sex in the same room as their kids. We call it cosleeping in the US but in the rest of the world it's called being poor and only having one room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our kids are older, young adults, and I have no desire for them to catch us in the act. But if they did I wouldn’t be thrilled but I’d be OK with them realizing that their parents still have a very active sex life. We may be 60+ but we are far from dead and we still love each other.

I actually don't think that our kids need to know this about us. It's more important to establish healthy boundaries. You can show physical affection for your spouse in front of your kids (hug, snuggle, kiss) w/o actually getting it on in front of them.

Lock your bedroom/bathroom door and tell your kids to always knock first.

Please, please do not take your children to a zoo where healthy boundaries are broken every day. I have no desire for my children to ever see us making love but like at a zoo sometimes nature happens. If questions get asked, answer them.

[Anonymous]

I can't tell if people are being facetious or if they really see parents having sex is some traumatic event.

Sure it's not something to flaunt in front of your kids, but if they see it, so what? How do the kids think they got here? Why is a natural act between two people who love each other "gross" or eliciting "ewws."

No wonder every other post on this forum is about their partner not putting out or having a boring sex life. People have some serious hang ups about sex.

[Anonymous]

Only if I wasn't with my husband!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a natural act. They are going to learn about it sooner or later and it's good that they know their parents had a healthy, active sex life. They wouldn't be here without the act. Grow up people.

Okay pedo

The kids know parents havre sex.

Parents should just say don’t come in our room for an hour we are having sex or napping.

This is not how sex Ed works.

Kids don’t need to see your hairy back to understand sex.

Lock the door.