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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 217786" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>At my daughter's school if a boy snaps a bra, he's nailed for sexual harassment. I've talked to my daughter (while she blushes a bright red) about how oral sex is sex and that you can get diseases from it, date rape (although she hasn't been on a date yet), protection, respecting yourself enough to say "no" to anything that you don't want to do, how boys say "I love you" to talk you into sex, etc. I figure if she has a woman's body, she needs to know. I also cover the gamut of drugs, which she saw first hand from her sister (and, like she says, she is nothing like her sister). </p><p>I actually LIKE the computer for reasons that I stated. You have SOME starting point if your kid runs off--people to call, a list of friends, a diary of thoughts. I LOVE cell phones and wish my older daughter would have had one. My younger daughter has heard all the warnings about predators and sickees on MySpace. She is NOT a risk taker. She doesn't even like watching True Crime with me--calls it "scary." I think this is the biggest difference between older daughter and younger daughter--older daughter was drawn into excitement, risktaking, and drama. She also wanted to be popular and was very shy, and drugs was her ticket to not feeling shy and also to popularity with a certain group of kids. Young daughter has really good social skills, tons of friends, and good self-esteem. Younger daughter also didn't go through a divorce like older daughter d id (me and ex) and her home life is more stable--her father is really her father, not her stepfather, etc. I try very VERY hard to do things right with younger daughter as I feel I was too busy working full time and dating my hub and that maybe somehow older daughter felt neglected. We are very close now, but I do feel bad about how she got the brunt of the divorce. Younger daughter is just very different. And even older daughter tells me, "N. is NOT like me." I can't stop her from doing everything that her friends do because so far she has earned my trust. But I do keep a very close eye on her. I think MySpace is a much bigger risk to a difficult child. I know plenty of kids who are mature enough to use it and don't get into trouble having it. But a difficult child...well, they take EVERYTHING and make it a problem...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 217786, member: 1550"] At my daughter's school if a boy snaps a bra, he's nailed for sexual harassment. I've talked to my daughter (while she blushes a bright red) about how oral sex is sex and that you can get diseases from it, date rape (although she hasn't been on a date yet), protection, respecting yourself enough to say "no" to anything that you don't want to do, how boys say "I love you" to talk you into sex, etc. I figure if she has a woman's body, she needs to know. I also cover the gamut of drugs, which she saw first hand from her sister (and, like she says, she is nothing like her sister). I actually LIKE the computer for reasons that I stated. You have SOME starting point if your kid runs off--people to call, a list of friends, a diary of thoughts. I LOVE cell phones and wish my older daughter would have had one. My younger daughter has heard all the warnings about predators and sickees on MySpace. She is NOT a risk taker. She doesn't even like watching True Crime with me--calls it "scary." I think this is the biggest difference between older daughter and younger daughter--older daughter was drawn into excitement, risktaking, and drama. She also wanted to be popular and was very shy, and drugs was her ticket to not feeling shy and also to popularity with a certain group of kids. Young daughter has really good social skills, tons of friends, and good self-esteem. Younger daughter also didn't go through a divorce like older daughter d id (me and ex) and her home life is more stable--her father is really her father, not her stepfather, etc. I try very VERY hard to do things right with younger daughter as I feel I was too busy working full time and dating my hub and that maybe somehow older daughter felt neglected. We are very close now, but I do feel bad about how she got the brunt of the divorce. Younger daughter is just very different. And even older daughter tells me, "N. is NOT like me." I can't stop her from doing everything that her friends do because so far she has earned my trust. But I do keep a very close eye on her. I think MySpace is a much bigger risk to a difficult child. I know plenty of kids who are mature enough to use it and don't get into trouble having it. But a difficult child...well, they take EVERYTHING and make it a problem... [/QUOTE]
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