ValiantDust

Agreed. As a white German woman myself, I can tell you that we are very used to being above any suspicion. I have been waved on in every traffic control and border check I’ve ever been in.

Also the German passport is one of the strongest in the world, we can basically go wherever we want when travelling. And now suddenly the US of all places is a country we have to be cautious in.

This is of course a very privileged position to be in, but they are teenagers, they probably haven’t had to think about that until now.

Oh, that sucks. This is why we can’t have nice things.

What @Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org said seems to be correct, they apparently have some problems right now, I can’t reach the website. It worked yesterday, when I posted the link. I’ll try again later to link some I like, I hope they are able to resolve the problems soon.

There’s also LibriVox for audiobooks of public domain books read by volunteers. They vary in quality but some of my favourite audiobooks are from there.

Sextidi. It’s what the sixth day was called in the French Revolutionary Calendar’s ten-day week. But to follow the example of the Roman Gregorian calendar month-naming scheme, it will of course be the eighth day of the week. Also it contains the word “sex” which I expect will lead to both a lot of snickering teenagers and a lot of accidentally censored weekdays.

Pretty similar to you. I don’t really remember specifically learning about it, it was just another topic I gradually learned things about. I vaguely remember having a book designed for children explaining the basic concepts and I probably asked my parents stuff and they answered. Then later we had sex ed in school several times.

Knowing my mom, she probably talked to me as a teenager and asked if there was something I wanted to ask. But I don’t really remember, so I guess it wasn’t especially awkward, just a normal conversation.

Here’s my two cents: I used to be incredibly shy, introverted and socially anxious in school. Then I went to university, grew more confident, made new friends and really blossomed. I personally don’t think I would have done that if I had someone who did everything for me.

Be there for him, support him, give him advice if he wants it, but don’t deprive him of this opportunity of learning how to handle himself.

I’m not USian and to me it sounds absolutely unreasonable. As in who would even think of gifting someone they at most barely know more than the flowers and chocolate for their birthday. As an average college student you wouldn’t even be expected to gift 100$ (or € in my case, but they’re close enough) at a wedding where I live.

But I guess the culture about gift giving is very different here, so I guess I should leave it to people from the US.