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Perfectly Normal

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

Oh, the Questions They Ask: Sexy Vocab Part 2

Slang words for body parts and other sexual terms dominated the question box during each of our sexuality classes for fifth graders for eight weeks. Even after the students read…

Perfectly Normal | October 2010 | By Heather Cori


Sexy Books

I’ve passed The Book Loving Gene on to all three of my children. I recently sent them off on a road trip with their grandparents and the biggest concern was:…

Perfectly Normal | September 2010 | By Heather Cori


Oh, the Questions They Ask: Am I Normal?

I’ve collected so many great kid questions that I’ve divided them up into three different Perfectly Normal installments. This column includes the “Am I normal?” questions. It will be followed…

Perfectly Normal | August 2010 | By Heather Cori


Best Quality

At eleven, my daughter has a friend almost a year younger that has begun menstruating. I’ll call her Faith. Maya and Faith have been BFFs for a while, so Maya…

Perfectly Normal | July 2010 | By Heather Cori


Bropping

Maya says, “When do you think it might be a good time for me to get a bra?” I say, “A girl usually knows when it’s time. Do you think…

Perfectly Normal | June 2010 | By Heather Cori


Bad Girl Music

“My friend says I listen to bad girl music because I like Katy Perry,” my almost eleven-year-old daughter, Maya, relays. “What do you think about that?” I ask. “I think…

Perfectly Normal | May 2010 | By Heather Cori


Sexting

When I was in high school, a classmate named Dewey passed me a pencil-sketched hairy vulva and darkened clitoris on college-ruled paper with a note reading “Is this yours?” Flushed,…

Perfectly Normal | March 2010 | By Heather Cori


Pap App

When Ahna turned five I realized it had, in fact, been at least five years since I’d been to the doctor. Moving from denial to awareness, I told some outspoken…

Perfectly Normal | February 2010 | By Heather Cori


Bad VPL

In the car, I began to wonder if everyone had noticed. Do people look at the presenter’s ass? Replaying when I was up at the chart paper with my back…

Perfectly Normal | January 2010 | By Heather Cori


Sex and The Office

It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting on the couch with my two of my favorite people. My son Jamin is in seventh grade and his middle sister, Maya, is a…

Perfectly Normal | November 2009 | By Heather Cori


Conjaculations!

This summer we adopted three male guinea pigs. We’d been told it’s best to have two males only or two males and a female if you are going to keep…

Perfectly Normal | September 2009 | By Heather Cori


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