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Sleepovers stress me out!
Mama X
#1 Posted : Monday, July 25, 2011 10:33:36 PM(UTC)
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I'm feeling a bit confused about sleepovers. My 13-year-old daughter likes to have her friend sleep over, but then they spend a lot of time in the bedroom giggling behind a closed door, and it makes me feel uncomfortable. I've tried opening the door, but the next thing I notice it's closed again. I don't want to over-react, but I do wonder what they are up to.

May sound like I am worrying over nothing, but it's also that the friend seems a bit more developed in her emotions and more interested in boys. She has a phone, has a Facebook profile and just generally seems more interested in growing up fast. I don't want my daughter to be pushed into what she's not ready for yet. Brick wall
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:02:17 AM(UTC)
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It's your house, and you can enforce a no- closed-doors policy. But if there's no reason to think they're doing anything you disapprove of, maybe let them have a little more breathing room? It's also perfectly understandable that you are worried about the friendship because of their different developmental stages. But better they are in your house than out in the world somewhere where you can't monitor them.
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:30:00 PM(UTC)
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Just remember back to when you were that age....although we did not have mobile phones, facebook etc...we too giggled and carried on behind closed doors. They are just being.....teenage girls, and rather behind her closed bedroom door than being out somewhere or other. Just make sure you chat about the pro's and con's of facebook and not to chat to anyone they do not know, as at this age, believe me......they tend to be very trusting. I pop into my kids rooms often, with offering them chips, juice etc....so an excuse to see/hear what is going on, and normally.......nothing much, just the little bitching about a fellow girl at school.....which is also normal, not nice, but it happens, or the latest fashion, hair, make up etc........

Good luck, you are just a loving Mom, ain't nothing wrong with that!!
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#4 Posted : Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:16:59 PM(UTC)
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Face it when they are thirteen they are teenagers.
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