Morning, all.
Holy shit did I learn a lot about 12 and 13 year olds from my daughter's birthday party yesterday.
I let her enjoy her day before I plan on grounding her for the entire summer - just for who she chooses to hang out with.
One girl spent the night here and started talking, at the dinner table, about how hilarious it was the first time her boyfriend fucked her. She is 12. Her parents allow this.
My daughter was bragging about having a facebook page that her mother and I don't know about.
I found it. It is deleted. She no longer has a tablet and her phone has been blocked from the router and her mother is going to kill the data plan on it this weekend.
Sneaky. Fucking. Kids.
Thank krist my son and his friends are complete geeks and nerds and are just into computers and random male insults. (Well, most of his friends, some are a little more advanced but not many). I would have had a heart attack had I heard that about the 12 year old.
The worst I overhear is the word "fuck" (which I do reprimand, even though I use it, but I'm a fucking adult so I can!). There have been one or two times I overhear something demeaning about girls/females and I'll step in on that, too, but I think that's mostly them not really understanding what they are saying.
I think, though, that my son is a little bit, and his friends are a lot, afraid of me. I can be the crazy, fun mom who can shock them with my weirdness, but most of his friends have known me since they were very young and have been around me volunteering at school or on field trips and know I can turn into a REALLY HORRIBLY MEAN SCARY HUMAN if they cross a line.
Letting them think I am a wee bit crazy is actually the plan. Keeps them on their toes.