![]() Send questions to or Ask Amy, Chicago Tribune, TT500, 435 N. It’s not normal, and it’s certainly not acceptable, for kids to heap abuse on their parents. An African-American teenage girl, 13 years old, is standing in the foreground when her friend, a 12 year old girl, runs up from behind and surprises her. That having been said, if your daughter’s out-loud outbursts or angry barbs include the sort of language she used in her diary, or if she seems chronically upset, sad or angry, then I think you need to try to get to the bottom of it. She is calling you “bad mommy,” and you’re going to have to go ahead and love her anyway. Remember when your daughter was 3 years old and pitched an epic fit and called you “bad mommy” in the hardware store because you wouldn’t let her buy the chain saw? This is like that. One of the burdens of motherhood is that your kids can hurt you, and you still have to soldier on and be the mom. Though I agree with my daughter on this, I feel your pain. She thinks that if you tell your daughter you read her diary, she might find this violation of her privacy unforgivable. ![]() She reminded me that diaries are full of exaggeration and are never meant to be read by anyone else. I’m having trouble getting past this.ĭEAR MOM: I ran this question past my 16-year-old daughter and asked her if she thought you should confront your daughter about this. ![]() In the past, any angry barbs that came my way I just brushed off as teenage angst, but now I wonder if it is more personal. It was a diary/journal, and although I know I should have closed it, I read the last entry. (2004)ĭEAR AMY: I was in my 16-year-old daughter’s room, where I thumbed through what I thought was a sketchbook. If she continues to refuse to respect this pretty simple request, the next time she spends an evening at home, you might want to come to dinner wearing only your boxer shorts. What do you think?ĭEAR FATHER: Your daughter’s reaction to you tells me that she doesn’t worry too much about respecting your point of view I don’t know how that strikes you, but that would bother me more than the nudity. I have asked her to put more clothes on, but she just tells me not to be so stuffy. She doesn’t do this when we have houseguests. I will come home from work and she will be sitting in front of the TV with just a T-shirt and underwear on or come out of the shower with only a towel on her head. The problem is that she likes to run around the house in her underwear. Durability We looked for underwear that kids would outgrow before it wore out. ![]() This week’s columns are from her “best of” file.ĭEAR AMY: I am the father of a 19-year-old daughter. The best underwear fits kids of all sizes and at multiple life stages, from post-potty-training to the tween years. Victoria’s Secret undies “aren’t the problem-they’re merely a symptom of it.DEAR READERS: Amy is on vacation. Twitter Copy to clipboard Live Now All times eastern NOW. Fashion and celebrity magazines and pop music are packed with pouting, sexualized tweens and teens. Girls Little Princess Underwear Multipacks with Favorites Cinderella, Belle, Ariel, Aurora and More in Sizes 2/3T, 4T, 4, 6, 8, Multi7pk. Farrah Abraham is dismissing criticism after posting a Snapchat video of her 9-year-old daughter, Sophia, dancing in a bra and underwear. Prada recently had a campaign that featured 13-year-old model Ondria Hardin suggestively caressing herself, while Lacoste paraded a braless 15-year-old Lindsey Wixson on a runway wearing a see-through shirt. The sexualization of minors is a widespread phenomenon involving dozens of fashion and media companies. That Puritan mind-set, however, reduces girls to their bodies more than any lingerie line could.īesides, why pick on Victoria’s Secret alone? asked Amy Odell in. But in the classic “Girls in Peril” narrative of social conservatives, self-respect is only compatible with “sexual purity.” No good girl ever thinks about sex. Teens need this time to experiment, make mistakes, and “figure out who they are before adulthood complicates things.” Believe it or not, said Jenna Sauers in, a teenage girl can be a good student and wear a thong at the same time. ![]() If they’re not “doing it” by then, they’re definitely thinking about doing it. The average American loses their virginity at 17, and by the age of 19 almost 70 percent are sexually active. By age 15, girls growing up in our modern culture are hardly interested in the “Hello Kitty” undies that their protective parents might prefer them to wear. Time for a reality check, said Amanda Marcotte in. ![]()
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