Don’t show anyone your boobs online!!!
“Don’t show anyone your boobs online!”
“Don’t type anything that you wouldn’t want your grandparents to see!!” I know her friends, they’re all good kids and maybe I’m worrying over nothing at this point, but my mind goes to these freaky places. You know the ones – where my tween daughter is pregnant and hooked on Crack and debating whether she’s going to keep the baby. Aaaaaand the angina kicks in.
Ever since she hit puberty and had a defined waist – my maternal panic has gone into overdrive. There are dudes out there who want to have SEX with my baby. The summer she was 11 we’d go for family walks and we’d be garnering some male attention, I’d preen a bit and think to myself “Well I guess that I look good today…” until I saw that it wasn’t ME they were looking at – it was my daughter.
“Don’t eyeball her you PERV!! SHE IS 11!!” I wanted to get her a t-shirt “I am NOT as old as you think I am”. And it‘s not just teenaged boys – it‘s MEN. Like men my age. “I will END you – you freak! She is a baby!!!!!”
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I’m so fucked. Rissa was always an attractive girl, but what with her dance training and her height and her lovely alabaster skin – she’s now frickin’ gorgeous. And the more gorgeous she gets the more I lose my mind.
Because it is sooooo much different than when I was young. It’s no longer a case of “You show me yours, I’ll show you mine.” It’s morphed into “You show me yours via webcam and I’ll post it to the entire universe and have you labeled a dirty slut.”
My mind is filled with Urban Mythological “lipstick parties” where boys have girls with different colours of lipstick give them blow jobs in the dark.
“Don’t put anyone’s penis in your mouth!”
“Mummy. Eeeeeeeeeew!”
“I’m just saying….”
“Gross.”
A brain wave comes to me. Agree with her. “Yes it IS gross and you should therefore wait until you are finished university before going anywhere near that. Plus boys never shower enough and it would be really stinky.”
“Eeeeeeeew!”
“The minute you start to get tingly around ANYONE – you tell me and we’ll put you on the pill! And you’ll have a diaphragm. And an IUD.”
“Mummy, I’m only 12…”
“Yes, but you don’t LOOK 12 and dudes start to think with their penises really early in life. Trust me on this.”
Please, oh please, please, please. Keep my daughter safe – keep her smart – keep her confident. Let her have moxie. Let her know the difference between a guy who just wants to get in her pants and a guy who wants to cherish her heart. Or girl. In fact a girl would be great! At least if she has a girlfriend she can’t get pregnant.