Need opinions (quickly) about how to handle a "teenage situation"

[Ptah]

Just got home from a long day at work and I guess I'm just too burnt out to think about this properly....

My 16 year old went to a friends house after school. Supposedly the friends mom (b/c she had heard the
girls talking about it over the past week or so) let them read the dictionary. My daughter is now spewing anatomical words.

I know the discovery of these explicit words are a "Big Deal" for her age group, but tomorrow is a school day ~
even though my daughter says she doesn't have anything "Big" (tests, etc.) going on tomorrow. She's not going to
miss school, she'll just probably be tired.

I'm a bit pissed that the other mom let them read a dictionary w/o asking me first if my daughter could. The other
possibility is that the words are already known, my daughter is just repeating those words. If the words are already
known, they could probably be exchanged for other Grey's Anatomy excerpts.

Anyway, whether the words are common knowledge or not, I have decided to ignore her and any of her friends
that use anatomy descriptions as sexual innuendo.


What do you all think?


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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Ptah!

Reading a dictionary? Really?

I see nothing wrong with that, truly.

The kids are going to learn these words someplace, and I think a dictionary is one of the better ones!

They're playing with the language, and I think your idea of ignoring this is probably a good one.

I'll bet you did it too! I know that I still do!

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[Ptah]

4. It's a copycat with a message

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9281068



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[hayu_lol]

10. They've waited until they were 16 to read the dictionary?

Good grief...we were all digging THOSE words out of dictionaries in 5th grade(mid-40s).

[Ptah]

11. Copycat + screed = WTF

[REP]

2. Burn all the books in your house NOW

[Ptah]

5. Already did.

That's why she wanted to see the dictionary at her friend's house.

[Duer 157099]

3. As a parent of a 16 year old boy, I think that

if this is your biggest concern at the moment wrt your child, you should consider yourself really, really lucky.

That's what I think.

[Ptah]

6. My children are 25 and 26.

It's a copycat.

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[Duer 157099]

8. Thank God. I was about to die of envy.

So you are living testament to the fact that a parent can indeed survive their teenager's years?

Good to know. In the abstract, anyway.

[Ptah]

9. Yes, there are adults in your near future.

:hold on you'll make it:
Edit to add:




oops! :blush:

[redwitch]

13. Is that "The Joy of Sex" on your mantel?

Or "The Joy of Cooking"?

[Ptah]

14. That's my daughter's kitchen.

Joy of Cooking.

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[struggle4progress]

7. You should buy her her own dictionary. But before you give it to her, take a razor blade

and cut out all the anatomical words in it

She'll quickly tire of not finding anything interesting in the dictionary

And if she's anything like a lot of my friends in my teenage years, it won't matter, because she'll get her own razor blade and cut out more of the dictionary to make a dummy volume she can hide drugs in

Good luck! :D:

[Ptah]

16. Oy vey carumba!

[quakerboy]

12. I think your epidermis is showing

Hide your shame, quickly now!!

[Withywindle]

15. I think you should enroll your daughter in a Remedial Smut class for special-needs kids STAT.

Anyone who doesn't know every anatomical word in the dictionary backwards and forwards by age 10 obviously has a severe learning disability.


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