One day, point-blank, Harriet Gourdine-Adams' 8-year-old son, what with his ready access to the pamphlets and brochures in his mother's workaday arsenal, asked her to define "sex." She gave him an age-appropriate answer."I said, 'Oh, it's the special way that mommy and daddy love each other.' And he says, 'Oh, OK.'"
He kept it moving, did not bat an eye, did not miss a beat, said Gourdine-Adams, family planning director for Nassau County's community health centers. He was satisfied with her easy, breezy comeback. And this, she said, came as a relief to her 15-year-old daughter, who was standing in a corner listening and, by the contortions on her face, petrified about what would drop from her pull-no-punches mother's mouth onto a little boy's brain.
He kept it moving, did not bat an eye, did not miss a beat, said Gourdine-Adams, family planning director for Nassau County's community health centers. He was satisfied with her easy, breezy comeback. And this, she said, came as a relief to her 15-year-old daughter, who was standing in a corner listening and, by the contortions on her face, petrified about what would drop from her pull-no-punches mother's mouth onto a little boy's brain.
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