I was just at Duane Reade picking up some popchips and tylenol3 when I saw something I've yet to see.
A cute, blond mom with her cute blond kid at the pharmacy on line ahead of me. When the pharmacist asks what Mom's picking up she says ortho-tricyclen. Now sure, she could be taking it for her unseen acne. Or to regulate her cycle. But I'm not the giving people the benefit sort of girl, and seeing a mom buying birth control while her cute kid flits at her feet doing tricks on a scooter and only twice saying "watch me mom, watch me" was definitely weird, like seeing a dad flip through Hustler while holding his kid's hand, weird.
Monday, July 27, 2009
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you are nuts. just because a woman has kids doesn't mean she wants more.
ReplyDeleteI'm not nuts, I know not wanting more kids is common. It was that she was doing it with her daughter there. I mean surely there are other moments to pick up birth control. It just seemed wrong.
ReplyDeleteI don't know...I think this sort thing should be done without kids knowledge. However, the kid is probably way to young to realize what kind of medicine his mother is buying. So I don't think it's that bad of a situation.
ReplyDeleteDoubtful the mom has a whole heck of a lot of time to do these things without child. No biggee, I do waay worse things with my daughter.
ReplyDeleteNot a parent, just an observer, but it seems to me that possibly we are protecting our kids from so much that we are not actually teaching them some very important things.
ReplyDeleteI remember going to the pharmacy with my mom when she was picking up what my father called, "fuzz cream". Aparently it was the gel for her diaphragm. I was mostly grossed out that my parents were going to have sex, and of course by the term "fuzz cream".
ReplyDeleteI am completely horrified by this "fuzz cream" and I wasn't even there.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rebecca. My wife has to run all kinds of errands with the kids in tow.
ReplyDelete"Ortho-Tricyclen" are awful big words for a toddler, and apparently the kid didn't care. Even if the kid did care, the mom could say it was for hiccups for all it matters.
ReplyDeleteI've talked to my kids about sex and birth control (in age appropriate terms) from the time they were old enough to understand. Better than making it forbidden and taboo and having them desperate to find out for themselves, not to mention not know how to protect themselves.
Last thing I need is a pregnant kid or a kid with an STD on my hands and I couldn't say, "I told you so."
Oh, and I think "fuzz cream" is hysterical.