The fact that she could be my daughter is unsettling, I have to admit that.
Glad I have boys. If my daughter looked like that...I would be a mess.
Trust me, KR, as the parent of a beautiful daughter who's heading into the teen years, I am a mess. But, you teach them to be srong buttkickers, confident, give them lots of positive examples, and then you have to let them go into the cold nasty world to find their own way. Not without a prayer, curfew, cell phone, martial arts lessons and car of their own, mind, but they've still gotta be allowed out on their own.
Lochness, welcome to my world. 4 daughters age 21, 17, 14 and 11... Never a dull moment.
+1 to lochness & Phurba.....I have 3 girls (15, 11, and 7). The next 13-15 years of my life are gonna be hell.....
What really scares me the most is that because of my blood clotting issues (which is hereditary), they will be more prone to closts (but not as prone as me). IOW, they can't go on oral contraceptives.....THAT is what keeps me up at nights.
wait til they go to college and hook up with a dude that has a van - and doesn't wear underwear
edit: that was like 30 years ago, right?
CK--check into Nuva ring (sp) for birth control.
Looked into it briefly before...don't think it will work. First warning listed:
but thanks for the tip, anyway! Definitely Appreciated.The use of combination oral contraceptives is associated with increased risks of several serious side effects, including blood clots, stroke, or heart attack. NuvaRing is not for women with a history of these conditions. The risk of getting blood clots may be greater with the type of progestin in NuvaRing than with some other progestins in certain low-dose birth control pills. It is unknown if the risk of blood clots is different with NuvaRing use than with the use of certain birth control pills.
Put 'em in a burka. That's what I say...lol!
LOL....I always joked that I had already talked to the Mother Superior at the local convent and she would be glad to take them. But they would still think I was the greatest dad because I was gonna tell them that the law says they had to stay there until they were 40, but I would spring them at 30!!
;-)
Just give them good values and good information, and they'll be fine.
CK, there's no discussion of contraceptives in my house as the wife is very old school Irish Catholic. I just have to rely on vtguy's method - that and instilling a healthy level of fear in any boy who shows up at the door.
Yer.....My oldest just broke up with her first boyfriend a few months ago. I am very proud to say that he was actually scared of me. ;-)that and instilling a healthy level of fear in any boy who shows up at the door.
+1 vtguy.... and to CK for putting the fear of father in those boys!
My son just got his first girlfriend. But at age 13 he is already my height and weight, wearing a size 10 shoe with a mustache.
Part of me is glad he can be someone else problem now...lol.
I have the 15 yo daughter too. its a barrel of laughs, that. i always joke about wearing bib overalls, no shirt, and carrying a shotgun when boys come around. have not done it yet, but...
Relax guys, you'll survive. I've been there. My 2 girls now 36 and 33 turned out just fine. Even having gone through their parents divorcing. I now have 4 beautiful granddaughters. Yes they've been blessed with all girls. What is it they say about karma? :-)
oops - double post
Not sure if CK's "blood clotting issue" is Hemophilia but my remembrance from the days I took a genetics course is that it affects males but not females. (They can carry the gene but won't have issues with their own blood.) So I went searching and found this...
Hemophilia is a sex linked trait in humans, inherited in the same way white eye color in Drosophila.
Males are hemizygous, receiving their only X chromosome from their mother. Females are heterozygous, inheriting X chromosomes from both parents.
If a female has a defective gene on one of her two X chromosomes, she will be protected from its effects by the normal gene on her second X chromosome. If a male has a mutant X and a normal Y chromosome, he will be affected by a X-linked disease. A son, whose mother has two normal alleles, will not be affected by hemophilia even if the father has the disease and the defective gene. A daughter of the same parents will be a heterozygous carrier. A heterozygous carrier mother and a normal father pass the gene for hemophilia on to possibly one- half of their children. Half the daughters will be carriers and half the sons will be hemophilic. The rest of the siblings will be normal. Daughters, as long as one parent is genotypically normal, can only be carriers. The normal gene on the second X chromosome counteracts the defect and the daughters do not suffer from the trait. If a son receives the defective gene from his mother, he will be hemophilic because the Y chromosome can not counteract the defective gene located on his X chromosome.
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