# Offer me advice: my oldest child is turning 13. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-me-advice-my-oldest-child-is-turning-13/532563 "2010-03-15T18:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-me-advice-my-oldest-child-is-turning-13/532563/61 "2010-03-22T16:05:16Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I do talk to my teenage sons about sex, whether they like it or not. (They don’t.) You do realize that they are lying to you, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-me-advice-my-oldest-child-is-turning-13/532563/62 "2010-03-22T16:27:28Z")
> [@Wilbo523](#): > > You do realize that they are lying to you, don’t you? No, no- I don’t talk to them about whether they like sex or not, I talk to them about sex, whether they like it (me talking to them about it) or not. Unless you’re saying that they really do like it when I talk to them about sex. If so, they are damn good actors. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-me-advice-my-oldest-child-is-turning-13/532563/63 "2010-03-23T01:59:30Z")
Have you considered “The Bunghole Method of Child Rearing”? What you do is seal the child in a barrel, and feed him thru the bunghole (in the barrel, not the kid). When the kid turns 18, you put in the bung. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-me-advice-my-oldest-child-is-turning-13/532563.md?page=3)