MOMS, BEWARE!

In the last year, my daughter hit puberty and went through a big growth spurt, growing UP and OUT in places she didn't even know existed. She is now twelve years old and stands about five foot six and a half inches. She weighs about one hundred and thirty five pounds, and has grown OUT of her training bra.

This weekend I took her to the mall to go shopping for new clothes and I was amazed and not to mention disheartened at the sheer number of GROWN MEN who were checking her out. I don't mean just looking at her appreciatively; I mean CHECKING HER OUT. It pissed me off so bad. She is still a CHILD...she won't even be THIRTEEN until NOVEMBER. I understand that she looks older than she really is. (I took her with me to school one day and a twenty three year old criminology major suavely asked her what her "major" was. "Her major," snapped my friend Kindra immediately, "is junior high.") "Oh, my God, I am so sorry," he said and blushed deep red. I told him it was okay. Now I am seeing that that is happening all the time.

And she likes the attention. She admitted to me that she likes it. So I gave her a talking to about self esteem and loving yourself and blah blah blah. But I can't get the image of her prancing around the mall while men were drooling over her out of my mind. Frankly, it scares the shit out of me. I think I am going to start carrying Mace in my purse and a big fucking baseball bat in my car.