Parents please

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I want to tell my parents about the birth control I'm getting pretty soon. The main thing is I need my insurance card, and they have it. But I do want to be honest with them and tell them discuss my birth control with them.I'm 18 and I've been dating my 20 year old boyfriend for a year and a half, they adore him and think of him as part of the family. We've been sleeping together for about four months now, and we've always used condoms except once when I was on a hormone birth control (it didn't agree with me though so I got off it, and we started using condoms again).Now I want to get a para gaurd IUD. I want to be honest with my parents but I don't know how they would react. They were a lot wilder than I am when they were younger than me. I just wanted some parents opinions on kids telling their parents about their having sex and birth control options. The situation makes sense to me, but I'm not a parent.thanks

Well at your age, I would think that they would rather you be safe than have an unwanted pregnancy.

That's what I think, but I'm still partially afraid that they'll flip because parents (especially mine becuase I'm the oldest and the only girl) don't want their kids to grow up.

to be honest, at your age, and the fact that you have a long term BF, that they like YAY, if you were my daughter i would be very ok with it all, and I would also like the fact that you felt comfortable enough with me to talk to me about it. If they were wild, they are probably expecting it anyway I never had to ask my mum for it, she suggested it, and I will definitley be buying my boys condoms when they reach their teens.........

buy me condoms to can mum?:p i'd be a bit ashamed to buy them ;_; edit: and yeah, same thing as angel, u said ur parents were wilder, so im quite sure they'll understand fine lol

ashamed to buy them? rubbish, if your adult enough to have sex you should be adult enough to buy condoms.......spoken like a true mother

I think it's kinda fun to buy them. Like people know you're having sex when they ring them up. But also it's fun to pick and choose different ones and anticipate using them.

yay angel! thats my lil saying for my friends who moan about having to go buy condoms and how embarrassing.. "if you're old enough to have sex, you have to be old enough to go and buy the condoms.."

Amz are we wise or what LOL

sure hun, sure, whatever u want

My ex boyfriend refused to stand in line with me when I bought condoms. And he never bought them. But he was only 17, and I was his first so I guess he was still weirded out, especially since it was illegal. Lol

Well, I told my parents I was using birth control because I had an ovarian cyst a couple years ago. But I'm sure they know the other reason, just that I'd rather not admit it because my mom is pretty conservative. But she was pretty wild when she was my age, so I know she'd be happy to just know that I'm being safe.

I wonder if people who were wild in their youth tend to become more conservative parents. "OMG! No way I'm going to let my daughter do what I did!"I used to give my mom a hard time about it when I was young, so she'd try to impress me with her wildness when she was young. Thankfully she spared me the details.