I'm not liking this middle school stuff!!

[always quiet]

My youngest daughter started middle school 2 weeks ago and the boys are already calling!! I am NOT liking this one bit, no sir!!!

Please pass the tylenol........heck, pass something stronger if you got it!!

 

[Christine]

Tell me about it!

My DD just started 9th grade and we had a SENIOR call tonight.

 

[always quiet]

Christine,
Better start padlocking the front door and digging out the overalls!!

Did someone forget to tell these girls that boys have cooties!!!!!!

 

[monarchsfan16]

Wait until high school. There's a 17 year old boy, who has a girlfriend (who's friends with my sister) after my 14 year old sister.

 

[always quiet]

Not only do boys have cooties, sometimes they are low life pond scum!! Be sure to tell your sister...tell her to spread the word too.

 

[missypie]

Wow. My beautiful blonde DD is in her second year of middle school and so far NO boys have called...it must be her attitude of "no boy is good enough for me" which I admit that I'm currently encouraging.

 

[always quiet]

Wow. My beautiful blonde DD is in her second year of middle school and so far NO boys have called...it must be her attitude of "no boy is good enough for me" which I admit that I'm currently encouraging.

GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BrerLizzie]

My youngest daughter started middle school 2 weeks ago and the boys are already calling!! I am NOT liking this one bit, no sir!!!

Please pass the tylenol........heck, pass something stronger if you got it!!

Have fuuuuun!

I don't have that problem. The boys don't call and I don't want them to. I'm not getting cooties!

 

[Tjaleks]

Ok, just curious.......

My son's are only 9 & 10. Have you had the sex talk with your dd's yet and at what age???

 

[pattyT]

I am so understanding ya there!
My dd had one boy write her a note that said she should break up with her 'boyfriend' cuz he is just using her
Ok WHAT is he using her for exactly if they only see each other across the room in class, and talk on the phone 1x a week (she tells me his is just a boy who is a friend )
I am soooo not ready for all this crap!

 

[always quiet]

Ok, just curious.......

My son's are only 9 & 10. Have you had the sex talk with your dd's yet and at what age???

Hey, if you want tp start talking about the birds and the bees, you gosh darn better have something stronger to offer!!

Seriously though, when my daughters were 10, we talked...but it wasn't just at one sitting. These kind of things go better in small doses!!

 

[mtblujeans]

My DS just started 9th grade and I am having trouble just getting him to school on time....I couldn't handle it if he started calling girls! (Insert hammer to the head smilie here)

**SIGH** I think I am too old for this....

 

[BuzznBelle'smom]

Thanks for the warning--DD starts MS next year! That gives me plenty of time to increase her karate lessons! Fortunately, she still thinks boys are icky, but I know my time is running out. I think she's likely to intimidate them, though--the bus bully is afraid of her, even though she's the smallest girl in the fifth grade.

 

[Nancy]

My youngest is in 7th grade, we don't have the boys calling, but I know she IM's with a few of them. I'm pretty lucky, my girls are like me, they don't like to talk on the phone. So, with the older girls we get the occasional calls, but they are much more likely to be on the computer IM'ing instaed of talking.

 

[Serena]

My daughter likes Orlando Bloom and Viggo, the boys at her school can't compete. Or not yet.
There was one boy that isn't there this year, she misses him. She said he made school fun.
She goes to highschool next year, I'm not looking forward to it.

 

[WDWMom]

DD just started high school and so far no boys are calling. She does have 2 boys who are her friends and they flirt endlessly with her in class, but no calls yet. I don't (and she doesn't for the most part) mind the flirting, but she can't date so why bother. Grades, friends and sports are more important to DD. Not a lot of time for boys.

 

[hilaryduffrocks]

my dd is in the 6th grade this year at a private school, she has a friend and they hang out at school, which is fine. her grades and figure skating are more important..... she had a close friend at church who was 1 year older and his mom and i are friends so we all go to the movies, etc. his mom thought it was important that they just be friends.....(his dad is a pastor)hopefully she is getting the right message. last year in 5th she saw some girls just chase boys and thought it was awful behavior.....

 

[powellrj]

we have the opposite problem. We have a group of girls that call my DS ALL THE TIME. Its gotten so bad we don't always answer the phone when their #'s pop-up on caller ID. You can tell them he is at band practice etc... and they will keep calling back. You can tell them he won't be home tonight, and they still call. When they aren't calling, they are IMing.

 

[TEENEE]

powellrj, we have the same thing going on at my house. Fortunately it's only one girl that calls. My ds is so funny when she calls. When the phone rings he says he doesn't know why she's calling, then he takes the phone outside, comes back in 20 minutes later and still says he doesn't know why she called. Cracks me up.

 

[Divamomto3]

The whole boy/girl thing started here last year when I my oldest was in 7th grade. I found the girls to be the ones that pursued everything. Now there's even more contact this year in 8th grade...phone calls, IM's, plans for groups to meet at the town fair or the movies, etc. What parent can drive, what parent can pick up, etc etc etc. Right now I know all of their friends and the parents so I'm not worried. But the big, bad high school starts next year.

My middle son is 10 and I think that is when I started with the "talk." By the time they are 13, there is no more "talk." It's a downright frank conversations with the consequences of their actions and the expectations for their behavior.