I usually don’t write about parenting or teens and sex, but I came across a picture about a situation that I had to deal with when my youngest, Bob*, was in middle school.
I noticed that my almost all of my hand towels had gone missing. I thought it was strange, but I couldn’t figure out why. Everything else that went into the washer and dryer came back out.
Then one day during a week when my sons were with their dad, I went in their room to clean the sheets. It was then I found the missing hand towels stashed under Bob’s bed – all 10 of them give or take a few – crumbled, stained and crusty.
I picked each of them up by the cleanest corner I could find, dumped them in the hamper, and straight into the washing machine – temperature set on high and a bit of bleach and a lot of Oxi-Clean and detergent so I could feel confident that they’d be suitable and sanitary to use again.
I never said anything to Bob when he came back home the following week, but I’m sure he got the message to see that his secret stash was no longer under his bed. I never had a problem with missing hand towels again, but I had to do a more diligent job of washing his bedding.
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As parents of teenagers, we all gripe about the same things – kids’ abilities to walk past a towering bin of trash, packages of bread left open overnight on the countertop, bedrooms floors that haven’t seen the light of day for months. But no parent ever talks about dealing with the evidence of their sons’ masturbation habits. I had no one to ask for advice on how to keep my kid from jizzing in his sheets.
As a single mother of boys, it’s tough to know what kind of communication about sex is appropriate. At what point do conversations get beyond creepy? What are the chances that something will get back to the other parent or a step-parent that will get misconstrued as unfit parenting? It was easy for me to talk about things like sexual responsibility in a general way, but I found it very difficult to address their sexual issues, even if was just whacking off on sheets and towels.
I wish I had seen that towel picture 10-12 years ago. That would have solved my problem.
*Name has been changed to protect the not-so innocent.