stop growing child!

i. do not. know. what to do.


my daughter will be 5 in august...and she's friggin gorgeous. seriously...gorgeous. and it scares the ever living out of me. even her doctor said she would be model material because she's all legs and will be tall and friggin slender. she will wear sweaters and sweatpants until she's thirty, there will be bars on her windows, and she will never be able to use a telephone unless it's an emergency circumstance.

but seriously i want to do things right. i want her to know her boundaries and act intelligently on her own accord. but i know just how idiotic girls 13 through 19 can be. im sooo confused as to what is right. deciding between my over protective nature and what's best for her is one of the hardest, most exhausting things i have ever dealt with.

maybe i could actually write a booklet of do's and don'ts for the world as i know of it. just tid bits of info on things everyone has to deal with in life that i have personal experience with.

baah

 

I never realized that you are a mommy! Try telling her about your experiences in life and what you would have changed but make sure you give her the freedom to decide things for herself. If there's one thing I wish my mom would have done for me, it's just being a friend to me more so I could come to her when I had questions about sex, friendships, life, etc. Remember that she will learn best through some of her own experiences. Enjoy her being a little girl still in the mean time and try not to let her growing get to you too much!

 

I also didn't know that you were a mother. My goodness!

I'm sure that you'll do fine though. The fact that you care about how you raise your daughter shows that you're on the right track, and you're no doubt smart (and intuitive) enough to figure things out.

Nonetheless, good luck.

 

i have found that even though it seems our babies are growing up WAY too fast, we have to be patient and realize they are still very young so it's hard to maintain a balance between what a 5 y/o will comprehend and relate to and those tidbits of advice in order to help them help themselves later in life (my daughter will be 5 in Oct and i struggle with this same thing all the time). allow her to develop on her own but make sure she knows there are boundaries (which she will thoroughly push as she gets older). your daughter is gorgeous and i have no doubt that you will instill in her things you never knew you were capable of. i think you'll also find that she listens to you more than you give her credit for you can only do so much before life is placed in her own hands, then you just have to trust that you taught her well and that she listened to all the good advice you gave her when she was a younger. for now, she's still only 5 so enjoy every minute of it