Re: When you have a daughter....
I don't expect my daughter to never have any fun, and I'd feel awful if I bullied her into being a doormat or a sneak and a liar (like I was when I was a teenager). I'm sure she'll drink, smoke pot, etc, I just don't want her to be a [censored] idiot about it.
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I agree with this. Utah and I have 2 daughters 7 and 9(our 9 year old has already started puberty and is boy crazy)
Kids are savvy and have access to so much information all the time.
My plan is to teach everything I can-no sugar coating. I am a labor and delivery nurse and have delivered many teenage girls-I also worked as a sexual assault examiner and did way too many forensic rape kits on too many teenage girls that got in over their heads. Alcohol was always a contributing factor.
Dating is one thing...drugs, alcohol and the need to be independent will all be present.
Keep it open, honest, and educate them. Remember girls may not always be comfortable talking to their dads...get moms, aunts, girlfriends involved.
I will leave it to Utah to put the fear of god into the boys, after all he was a teenage boy once too.
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