Birds and the Bees
Author's Note:
My quip on the
above subject.
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We heard them all,
probably seen them all, do it but how do we tell the kids of ours, the works
behind the Birds and the Bees...
I traced this subject matter on the net ( as its loads of data are immense. ) and tried to find its source.
Nobody knew, but
some did concur it could have been from some writings dated back to Samuel
Taylor Coleridge's poem Work without Hope, 1825,
("http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-birds-and-the-bees.html")
but it's not conclusive.
When I was wearing
non-disposable diapers then ( they needed to be washed daily, so we had a dozen
on the clothesline ), I overhead MUM telling someone I was picked up in the
dustbin, left by the dustman. Much later in life, I heard from friends, they
came via the stork; send by package mail, and even picked at the shop. But no
one told us of the birds and the bees, although we had them in our small garden
outside the house.
My school books
did have a chapter on it when we were in the early teens, and the teacher ( I
was in an all boy’s school and the teacher was a young lady. ) assigned to my
class told us that there are the names of the parts and this subject does not
appear in our exam. “Case Closed”. We would have protested, as the next
classroom had their teacher which is a male, explaining in details to them ( we
knew then as we had lessons passed onto us during the breaks. ) I am sure a lot
of us was curious then, and sure took more than “a few glances” to see how
things would have worked.
Much later in my
married life, my wife told me her “daunting” experience; they all sat through a
birth session shown on the video, and most of them turned green. Maybe the HULK
was not such a good show after all. Good intentions mislaid objective, I guess.
So where did we
picked up our knowledge of the birds and the bees? Surely not from the birds
and bees for sure. We picked them up as we explore our minds on the available
materials and sights. Nevertheless, we all grew up with some knowledge, not thought
more nor a thoughtless, than anyone then and now. Of course, for the literary
inclined, DH Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover helped, but Sigmund Freud was
confusing.
So when it comes to
me to explain the Birds and the Bees.... to my kids, their response was before
I drop my first sweat on the matter was “ we know, DAD”.
So I am blessed
with the speed how children know so much nowadays.... but I asked back, “ Kids,
it's got nothing to do with Birds and the Bees....” and their reply was
“assuring”; “ We know, DAD ”.
And it's 905 days
23 hrs 12 min 32 seconds and counting since the day I mentioned the topic, and
I am still wondering if they know more about Birds and the Bees.... or they
know what is the reason for the Birds and Bees...... or they don't know what I
know about the Bird and the Bees'.
Thinking back, I am
getting concerned if we are all on the same version of the Birds and the Bees.
Maybe I need that drink.....
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