When I was 16 I secretly went on the pill at public health. My boyfriend’s dad also casually put a massive Costco type pack of Trojans in my bfs dresser. He was not home much and remembered being a teenager. I appreciated he was looking out for us.

My mom may have known I was in pill (and maybe signed paperwork-can’t remember), but I initiated it. I was a bit of a delinquent when younger and had been in residential treatment for a bit and they offer turbo charged sex Ed so i was not about to go without multiple forms of bc. Thank goodness for public health clinics! I used free clinics a bunch in teens and early 20s and thankfully had no “accidents”. I would have absolutely felt secure in seeking out plan b if needed. It wasn’t around then (90s), I’m glad it is now.

To answer your question, I’d say 13/14 jic and earlier/later if they ask. I’d also check expiration dates. I have a girl and we’ll probably fine tune that once she hits puberty. I hope she always feels safe talking with me about anything, including her sexual health/sexuality - questions concerns kind of stuff.

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Lots of middle schoolers having sex

Umm .. no. Maybe down south.

Not the pp but the fact that you think it’s only “down south” and not right here is sad. It’s happening. Not a majority but I would say 10-20% by the end of 8th grade. They aren’t relationships. They are social media sexting and then hook-ups.

As a teacher and wife of a police officer in juvenile special victims, he has cases of nudes being sent in 5th grade.

Don’t turn a blind eye. It’s there and even if they aren’t doing it, they know people that are and trying to normalize it.

Snapchat is perfectly designed to conceal children sexting nudes. Know another name for it? Child pornography, and it is a felony. It happens daily in FCPS and MCPS.

Don’t give kids SnapChat. But we are getting off topic:

- responsible parents protect their children and provide teens with condoms. No questions asked.

It's crazy how kids can become life long felons now, for sexting nudes to each other. Too many laws out there, and most are completely asinine.

No.

It’s crazy how many parents do not see how toxic and destructive social media is for teens, and they just let their kids use social.

Have a spine; say NO to teen social media. It ruins lives.

- and meant to add: put a box of condoms under the sink in the kids’ bathroom.

Wait, what? You will (or so you think) forbid your teen to use social media while simultaneously tacitly encouraging them to have sex (in your home)?

No one believes making condoms available “encourages” teens to have sex.

Except you.

It does encourage sex, dummy. Just like buying them a smartphone (you know, for emergencies) encourages them to use a phone.

Most people, kids included, prefer sex without condoms.

One cannot use the internet without the computer/smartphone.
But one can have sex without the condoms.

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Lots of middle schoolers having sex

Umm .. no. Maybe down south.

Not the pp but the fact that you think it’s only “down south” and not right here is sad. It’s happening. Not a majority but I would say 10-20% by the end of 8th grade. They aren’t relationships. They are social media sexting and then hook-ups.

As a teacher and wife of a police officer in juvenile special victims, he has cases of nudes being sent in 5th grade.

Don’t turn a blind eye. It’s there and even if they aren’t doing it, they know people that are and trying to normalize it.

Snapchat is perfectly designed to conceal children sexting nudes. Know another name for it? Child pornography, and it is a felony. It happens daily in FCPS and MCPS.

Don’t give kids SnapChat. But we are getting off topic:

- responsible parents protect their children and provide teens with condoms. No questions asked.

It's crazy how kids can become life long felons now, for sexting nudes to each other. Too many laws out there, and most are completely asinine.

It’s crazy how many parents do not see how toxic and destructive social media is for teens, and they just let their kids use social.

Have a spine; say NO to teen social media. It ruins lives.

Both are valid points. Yours and the PP.
Social media = bad.
Bad laws = bad.

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Lots of middle schoolers having sex

Umm .. no. Maybe down south.

Not the pp but the fact that you think it’s only “down south” and not right here is sad. It’s happening. Not a majority but I would say 10-20% by the end of 8th grade. They aren’t relationships. They are social media sexting and then hook-ups.

As a teacher and wife of a police officer in juvenile special victims, he has cases of nudes being sent in 5th grade.

Don’t turn a blind eye. It’s there and even if they aren’t doing it, they know people that are and trying to normalize it.

Snapchat is perfectly designed to conceal children sexting nudes. Know another name for it? Child pornography, and it is a felony. It happens daily in FCPS and MCPS.

Don’t give kids SnapChat. But we are getting off topic:

- responsible parents protect their children and provide teens with condoms. No questions asked.

It's crazy how kids can become life long felons now, for sexting nudes to each other. Too many laws out there, and most are completely asinine.

No.

It’s crazy how many parents do not see how toxic and destructive social media is for teens, and they just let their kids use social.

Have a spine; say NO to teen social media. It ruins lives.

- and meant to add: put a box of condoms under the sink in the kids’ bathroom.

Wait, what? You will (or so you think) forbid your teen to use social media while simultaneously tacitly encouraging them to have sex (in your home)?

No one believes making condoms available “encourages” teens to have sex.

Except you.

It does encourage sex, dummy. Just like buying them a smartphone (you know, for emergencies) encourages them to use a phone.

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Anonymous wrote:13

Lots of middle schoolers having sex

Umm .. no. Maybe down south.

Not the pp but the fact that you think it’s only “down south” and not right here is sad. It’s happening. Not a majority but I would say 10-20% by the end of 8th grade. They aren’t relationships. They are social media sexting and then hook-ups.

As a teacher and wife of a police officer in juvenile special victims, he has cases of nudes being sent in 5th grade.

Don’t turn a blind eye. It’s there and even if they aren’t doing it, they know people that are and trying to normalize it.

Snapchat is perfectly designed to conceal children sexting nudes. Know another name for it? Child pornography, and it is a felony. It happens daily in FCPS and MCPS.

Don’t give kids SnapChat. But we are getting off topic:

- responsible parents protect their children and provide teens with condoms. No questions asked.

It's crazy how kids can become life long felons now, for sexting nudes to each other. Too many laws out there, and most are completely asinine.

No.

It’s crazy how many parents do not see how toxic and destructive social media is for teens, and they just let their kids use social.

Have a spine; say NO to teen social media. It ruins lives.

- and meant to add: put a box of condoms under the sink in the kids’ bathroom.

Wait, what? You will (or so you think) forbid your teen to use social media while simultaneously tacitly encouraging them to have sex (in your home)?

- meant to add: your kids DO NOT have phones. You do.

You signed the contract, you pay the bill, you have the legal liability should the child commit a crime with the phone which you own. It is not your kids’ phone.

Why do you believe you have zero control over something which you own?

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Anonymous wrote:13

Lots of middle schoolers having sex

Umm .. no. Maybe down south.

Not the pp but the fact that you think it’s only “down south” and not right here is sad. It’s happening. Not a majority but I would say 10-20% by the end of 8th grade. They aren’t relationships. They are social media sexting and then hook-ups.

As a teacher and wife of a police officer in juvenile special victims, he has cases of nudes being sent in 5th grade.

Don’t turn a blind eye. It’s there and even if they aren’t doing it, they know people that are and trying to normalize it.

Snapchat is perfectly designed to conceal children sexting nudes. Know another name for it? Child pornography, and it is a felony. It happens daily in FCPS and MCPS.

Don’t give kids SnapChat. But we are getting off topic:

- responsible parents protect their children and provide teens with condoms. No questions asked.

It's crazy how kids can become life long felons now, for sexting nudes to each other. Too many laws out there, and most are completely asinine.

No.

It’s crazy how many parents do not see how toxic and destructive social media is for teens, and they just let their kids use social.

Have a spine; say NO to teen social media. It ruins lives.

- and meant to add: put a box of condoms under the sink in the kids’ bathroom.

Wait, what? You will (or so you think) forbid your teen to use social media while simultaneously tacitly encouraging them to have sex (in your home)?

No one believes making condoms available “encourages” teens to have sex.

Except you.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:13

Lots of middle schoolers having sex

Umm .. no. Maybe down south.

Not the pp but the fact that you think it’s only “down south” and not right here is sad. It’s happening. Not a majority but I would say 10-20% by the end of 8th grade. They aren’t relationships. They are social media sexting and then hook-ups.

As a teacher and wife of a police officer in juvenile special victims, he has cases of nudes being sent in 5th grade.

Don’t turn a blind eye. It’s there and even if they aren’t doing it, they know people that are and trying to normalize it.

Snapchat is perfectly designed to conceal children sexting nudes. Know another name for it? Child pornography, and it is a felony. It happens daily in FCPS and MCPS.

Don’t give kids SnapChat. But we are getting off topic:

- responsible parents protect their children and provide teens with condoms. No questions asked.

It's crazy how kids can become life long felons now, for sexting nudes to each other. Too many laws out there, and most are completely asinine.

No.

It’s crazy how many parents do not see how toxic and destructive social media is for teens, and they just let their kids use social.

Have a spine; say NO to teen social media. It ruins lives.

- and meant to add: put a box of condoms under the sink in the kids’ bathroom.

Wait, what? You will (or so you think) forbid your teen to use social media while simultaneously tacitly encouraging them to have sex (in your home)?

Anonymous wrote:OP here, answering the question: Is there some reason your kid can’t walk into CVS and buy his own?

Yes. He's 14. GF is 15.

There’s no age limit on condom purchases. Maybe you should raise his allowance so he can afford them.

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Anonymous wrote:13

Lots of middle schoolers having sex

Umm .. no. Maybe down south.

Not the pp but the fact that you think it’s only “down south” and not right here is sad. It’s happening. Not a majority but I would say 10-20% by the end of 8th grade. They aren’t relationships. They are social media sexting and then hook-ups.

As a teacher and wife of a police officer in juvenile special victims, he has cases of nudes being sent in 5th grade.

Don’t turn a blind eye. It’s there and even if they aren’t doing it, they know people that are and trying to normalize it.

Snapchat is perfectly designed to conceal children sexting nudes. Know another name for it? Child pornography, and it is a felony. It happens daily in FCPS and MCPS.

Don’t give kids SnapChat. But we are getting off topic:

- responsible parents protect their children and provide teens with condoms. No questions asked.

It's crazy how kids can become life long felons now, for sexting nudes to each other. Too many laws out there, and most are completely asinine.

No.

It’s crazy how many parents do not see how toxic and destructive social media is for teens, and they just let their kids use social.

Have a spine; say NO to teen social media. It ruins lives.

- and meant to add: put a box of condoms under the sink in the kids’ bathroom.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:13

Lots of middle schoolers having sex

Umm .. no. Maybe down south.

Not the pp but the fact that you think it’s only “down south” and not right here is sad. It’s happening. Not a majority but I would say 10-20% by the end of 8th grade. They aren’t relationships. They are social media sexting and then hook-ups.

As a teacher and wife of a police officer in juvenile special victims, he has cases of nudes being sent in 5th grade.

Don’t turn a blind eye. It’s there and even if they aren’t doing it, they know people that are and trying to normalize it.

Snapchat is perfectly designed to conceal children sexting nudes. Know another name for it? Child pornography, and it is a felony. It happens daily in FCPS and MCPS.

Don’t give kids SnapChat. But we are getting off topic:

- responsible parents protect their children and provide teens with condoms. No questions asked.

It's crazy how kids can become life long felons now, for sexting nudes to each other. Too many laws out there, and most are completely asinine.

No.

It’s crazy how many parents do not see how toxic and destructive social media is for teens, and they just let their kids use social.

Have a spine; say NO to teen social media. It ruins lives.

My DS and his friends all bought a big box together and split them up. 17.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, answering the question: Is there some reason your kid can’t walk into CVS and buy his own?

Yes. He's 14. GF is 15.

That's not a valid reason.

It is.

There is no age requirement for condoms so it's really not.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, answering the question: Is there some reason your kid can’t walk into CVS and buy his own?

Yes. He's 14. GF is 15.

That's not a valid reason.

It is.

Never. He buys his own.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, answering the question: Is there some reason your kid can’t walk into CVS and buy his own?

Yes. He's 14. GF is 15.

That's not a valid reason.