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Advice Needed - found an empty condom box in sons room

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Teenagerwoes · 24/02/2015 10:31

Ok, here goes, my son is 15, so is his gf.
This morning I found an empty condom box in his room.

He is at school right now and I am not sure how to approach this when he gets home.

We've always had a good relationship and he knows he can come to me with any questions (or so I thought) and he often asks advice and has had no problems talking to me about sensitive subjects in the past.

I think I am both shocked that he is having sex and disappointed, both that he is having sex and that he never spoke to me about it, (although we both know I would have advised against it and would definitely not have wanted it to happen in my house, while I was downstairs (Yes they do go to his room, but we have a door open policy and I am often in and out of the room and upstairs pottering about, which I thought was enough, obviously not)!

I have always said that if you are not mature enough to talk to me about it you aren't mature enough to consider doing it.

Which he seemed to understand and seemed on board with.
They have been together almost a year and although I'm not totally naive I just really never expected this.

What would your approach be?

OP posts:
Iwasbornin1993 · 03/03/2015 07:08

OP just to say I am so glad you didn't decide to contact your DS's GF's parents! My DP and I were sleeping together at that age and I would have been mortified if my MIL had have told my parents! Whereas my DP had quite an open relationship with his mum about sex at the time and so knew we were sexually active I didn't with mine (and still don't all these years later!) so I think I would have never forgiven her for that! We certainly wouldn't have a good relationship today anyway as I would have felt I couldn't trust her. As it happens my MIL is now a bit too over-familiar about sex to this day and proceeds to say things like "is DP getting lucky tonight with you wearing that top" but that's another story!!

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