Why is it so hard for parents to have “The Talk” with their children? You would think that parents would know that that time is coming so why when it does… its like their lips freeze up? I feel that it’s the same way with the school system. I say this because they can teach young people about abstinence, but as the young people get older and need the talks the most, they don’t get it. Some parents will teach their kids to not do this… and not do that… BUT hey, we are young people, so our minds are going to wonder!! So the question that I am as king is where the kids step 2 talks is when they are entering the world. That next step is educating them on contraceptives and ways to prevent them from becoming pregnant or contracting an STD. I feel that the world today really needs to let loose, and realize that some young people are going to choose to be sexually active. The sooner society understands this, the better off young people will be. It is better for young people to have the necessary access to services and knowledge about their birth control options as opposed to hearing myths that “this birth control does this and that birth control does that”. It is a tragedy that there are myths out there about birth control which can often times lead to young people becoming afraid to use contraceptives at all. All in all, it is very important to have open,honest, and educational conversations with young people about being sexually health and being able to prevent unplanned pregnancies and STDS. World, we really need to get it together, and I mean FAST!!!!

I just recently had a experience with kids between the ages of 12 to 15 at a CVS pharmacy. I let my 13 year old cousin and my 15 year old sister go into the pharmacy and ask where the condom aisle was at and they were actually asked how old where they and why did they need to buy them and where was their parents at. So they came to the car to get me which i already figured that they would have to come and get me. I came in and asked what was the problem and their first response was "did you know they came in here to buy some condoms "and I replied yes I did. They told me that if I wasn't their parent that they actually couldn't purchase them. My reaction to them was that I am related to them and that I am an adult and that their parents gave me permission to let me purchase some. Their answer was that we will let you purchase some for them but you can't give them to them while you are in the store. So how many of you can relate to this?

In this up-coming spring,kids in Washington will be the first to take a standardized test on human sexuality, contraception and drug use. The test is a 50 question exam and the grades taking this exam will be (5, 8, and 10) grades. In the early 2009 District Study shows that nearly half the city's chlamydia and gonorrhea diagnoses were among disrict residents 15 to 19 years old. Two- thirds of all diagnoses were among those younger than 24. More than 3% of district residents older than 12 were living with HIV/ AIDS in 2009. All i can say is congrats to those kids and the district because many kids won't even have the chance to do at least that.

Recent research has proven that the Cycle Beads are 95% more effective than the standard birth control.Victor Jennings a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center Institute for Reproductive Health says the method identifies the 12-day fertile window of a woman's menstrual cycle, taking into account the life span of an egg 24 hours and the viable life of sperm about five days. There are a total number of 32 beads, the brown beads represents when pregnancy is very unlikely, the white glow in the dark beads represent fertile days. I believe that this method could actually work because the days are broken down by the beads. What do you think?