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Two Lines To Ruin My Day

August 29, 2009 by 15 Comments

It started with my son.

“Well Mom, girls make me kind of tingly.”

Then moved on to my daughter as we watched yet another Brooke Sheilds commercial.

“Mom, she’s prettier than us.”

And I died a bit inside.

Time for a walk

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  1. David says:
    August 29, 2009 at 11:11 am

    “girls make me kind of tingly”….and so it begins.

  2. tara says:
    August 29, 2009 at 11:36 am

    re: tingly — that’s one way of putting it! still, not crossing the line of sweet innocence… (that said, i dread the day like comes from the mouth of my babe.)

  3. divrchk says:
    August 29, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    I thought you were going to say you were preggers 🙂

  4. Jo says:
    August 29, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Sometimes I wish we lived lives where we didn’t have to worry so much about the stuff that happens to our kids during their teenage years. Away from the mind-eating media and over-sexualized behavior. But we are so, so immersed in all of it.

    I like my computer too much…

  5. Jeremy Pepper says:
    August 29, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    You should be proud and happy on your son. I blame media for the second one (and it’s Brooke Shield’s, so I’m really worried about your daughter’s views of beauty. We’ll talk when I’m over next time).

  6. Summer says:
    August 29, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    I jsut saw the title and thought you were gonna show a positive pregnancy test! LOL Though, this is almost just as bad. Good luck with all the “tingly” stuff and the “prettier” ideas.

  7. Lynn Craig says:
    August 29, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Oh… well the first one is growing up. But the second… I hope you told her “no way”! (hugs)

  8. Queen of Spain says:
    August 29, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    LOL NOT PREGNANT!!!!!

    and yeah, I had a talk with BOTH the kids

  9. Amber says:
    August 29, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    My 4-year-old daughter once told me, “I’m not smart, I’m pretty.” I’m not sure I will ever recover from that one. We dialed the Disney princesses way back after that episode, let me tell you.

    Some of this stuff is no fun and presses ALL of my buttons.

  10. Sharon says:
    August 30, 2009 at 7:42 am

    The good news: they felt comfortable enough to say these things out loud to you. The better news: you talked to each of them about what they said. They’ll do fine as long as you all keep talking.

  11. Marinka says:
    August 30, 2009 at 10:22 am

    Oh, Brooke is prettier than all of us.

  12. Anita Tedaldi says:
    August 30, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    Well, she’s pretty (Brooke) and talking about body image and pretty and all of that fun stuff that begins in adolescence is tough! But hopefully we all come out OK.

  13. Tarrant says:
    August 30, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    You did get the special body image for girls books @blogher09 right? Or do I need to come deprogram you both?

  14. Lauren says:
    August 30, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    I am so scared of my daughter getting older. She can’t be a baby forever but I wish she could.

  15. Queen of Spain says:
    August 30, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    Tarrant I did NOT get that book…or I can’t find it. And I was HORRIFIED she said that.

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