Was there anything that your parents didn't want to talk to you about?

Looking back, I think my parents…my Mom anyway…were pretty progressive for the early 60’s. One day I was playing Barbies with a neighbor girl. We were about 7. She was Barbie AND Ken, and I had to be Skipper. She took Barbie and Ken behind a curtain and said I couldn’t see what they were doing. I pestered her. She finally say “OK. But DON’T tell your mom!” Then she showed me. Two naked dolls, Ken on top of Barbie. She said this is how grown ups have SEX! I immediately went home and asked my Mom what that was all about…and she told me with no hesitation!

Possibly she was so open about it because she grew up on a farm.

I can’t think of anything that my parents wouldn’t discuss with me.

PS, as an adult, looking back on my little playmate, due to that incident and others, I’m pretty certain she was being sexually molested by her father. That was so unthinkable in those days though that no body ever even considered the possibility.