Passing the torch.

[Uniquemind]

I know this is awkward to think about.

But how many of you plan to tell your own romance and dating history in detail:

Good and bad, when raising your own kids when it's that awkward time to give them, "the talk" or even advice about dating and relationships when they are in our shoes right now?



Is anybody actively trying to remember what we're living through now so we can bank on the collective knowledge/wisdom to pass it on?

[TheFutureDoctor]

I gonna tell my kids to jack off, no guilt attached to it. :P

[Dying Ember]

Is anybody actively trying to remember what we're living through now so we can bank on the collective knowledge/wisdom to pass it on?

Yep I do this not really for future kids because i can't see that happening but just daily life really, and not necessarily about relationships and dating

[Uniquemind]

Here's a follow-up question.

Do you think we've listened to advice given to us from generations before us, or have we remained stubborn and blocked it all out, due to individual pride, and have had to learn the hard way ourselves?


I've done a bit of both to be honest depending on the issue and topic the advice was for.

[skittle]

Do you think we've listened to advice given to us from generations before us, or have we remained stubborn and blocked it all out, due to individual pride, and have had to learn the hard way ourselves?

I'd say I've personally had to figure things out on my own. Years ago when I still saw my mother regularly, she never taught me about my body or relationships or sex. I've also never talked about that stuff with my dad, and don't have any older siblings or cousins or any close family really. In sex-ed in school, all we were really taught about were STDs. My doctor gave me the "sex, drugs and alcohol" speech, where she basically told me not to have/do any of them. I didn't listen to her. Not because of pride, but because I wanted to experience those things.

If I have kids, I hope that I have the type of relationship with them where I can teach them about these things. That being said, if I have kids, I'd only have them while I'm still relatively young. Both my parents were older and I think that gap partially defines the relationship I have with them, and I wouldn't want to repeat that necessarily.

[Jaffe]

Is anybody actively trying to remember what we're living through now so we can bank on the collective knowledge/wisdom to pass it on?

Actively remember? Half the time, I can't even remember how to get home, how am I ever gonna remember what puberty is like?

Besides, most of my life right now, I don't want to remember. Or to ever tell anyone about.