My Question of the Day: You decide it’s time to sit down with your 13-year-old son and talk about the “birds and the bees.” You have a very good relationship with him, and he feels comfortable telling you everything. When you begin the subject, he stops you and tells you that he already knows all he needs to know. You ask him how. He tells you that he asked his regular babysitter (a 19-year-old female who has watched him since he was a toddler) to show him what girls like and she did. What do you do?

My Question of the Day: You decide it’s time to sit down with your 13-year-old daughter and talk about the “birds and the bees.” You have a very good relationship with her, and she feels comfortable telling you everything. When you begin the subject, she stops you and tells you that she already knows all she needs to know. You ask her how. She tells you that she asked her regular babysitter (a 19-year-old male who has watched her since she was a toddler) to show her what boys like and he did. What do you do?

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My Question of the Day: You decide it’s time to sit down with your 13-year-old son and talk about the “birds and the bees.” You have a very good relationship with him, and he feels comfortable telling you everything. When you begin the subject, he stops you and tells you that he already knows all he needs to know. You ask him how. He tells you that he asked his regular babysitter (a 19-year-old female who has watched him since he was a toddler) to show him what girls like and she did. What do you do?

My 2 Cents: My first priority is to keep my cool and listen to everything my son has to say, and then explain to him how totally inappropriate his interactions with the babysitter were. My next move is to call my babysitter and ask her to meet with me immediately. After I finish giving the babysitter most of the pieces of my mind, I’ll let her know her services are no longer needed.

I can’t honestly say that I’d get the authorities involved, but I would definitely call any of my friends who were also using this young lady as a babysitter and let them know of my situation.

I also agree with @rahsheen; if I’ve waited until my son is 13-years-old to talk to him about the “birds and the bees,” I’ve brought some of this heartache and stress on myself. In our highly-sexualized society, I should have been talking with my son about sex and sexuality as soon as he could speak in complete sentences.

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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John_Hinds I’d tell him ‘I’m proud of you son! Mackin on them older women. lol

JoshDamage I wud certainly be furious and fire her but I’m not sure I’d press charges against her.

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