It's Official

Ladies and gentleman, sedate yourselves. You are officially at the beginning of that journey called teenager-dom. Gawd save ya! Our daughter has always been that little blond haired princess that makes it really easy to be a proud parent. Honor roll from the time she could get grades, helpful, looks people in the eye and carries on conversations with adults fromthe moment she could form words. Tonight we did the parent teacher conference thing. I will admit I tend to go to hers with a bit of expectation, "she's a good student, great leader, yada yada" but this time there was a "but" and it came at us like a sucker punch. Granted, it really wasn't something of great consequence, but the princess dropped her tiara.
After I could gather my thoughts tonight I started thinking about my time that was her time now. I remembered. Boys were quite the subject. Girls were flexing their flirty muscle with the boys with one eye and tearing each other up with the other one. Even the negative attention from the boys...shoving, play punches etc would get your blood movin. I had a thing in middle school for a guy a grade ahead of me. He was nothing but trouble and I knew that. Part of the reason I found him so hot! We all have to have our bad boys and the princess has found hers. So I explained to her that I get it. I do. But what I didn't get back then was that all those things you're willing to put up with for attention aren't worth your time. What you can do for yourself and your future is live in those little moments but don't ever jeopardize your future and your integrity for a boy. She set the bar high for herself by showing me she was an A student and a leader. I explained that I jsut want her to live up to her potential that she's already displayed. I think she gets it. I don't know how longit will stick but I think she gets it. I hope she gets it before I finally got it!