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How should I react to what my daughter told me?
I need help knowing how to react to this. My 16 year old daughter told me that her guy friends at school told her that “Your mom is beautiful, hot and sexy”. I am over twice the age of her friends that said this. As a mom, my daughter is my HIGHEST priority. The LAST thing I want is her thinking about is hot and sexy. Is this normal for 16 year old girls (and guys) to talk this way? I am grateful that we are so close she feels she could tell me this information. I just don’t want her talking to guys about anyone being hot and sexy, even me. Am I hopelessly out of date on how teenagers talk and think?
Should I just tell her “Thanks for the compliment” and let it go at that and/or have another “sex talk” with her? As her mom, my biggest fear is her getting pregnant in high school and ruining her life.
Any advice from experienced mothers and/or teenage girls would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.
6 Answers
- kamm6038Lv 57 years ago
Be glad you still got it, there's nothing wrong with a compliment occasionally, just don't mess around with them.
- 7 years ago
I wouldn't yell at her for telling you this, but you should be grateful that she tells you personal things like that.
If I were you, I would get into a discussion with her and the comment just made you think about it. Tell her that calling someone hot and sexy is degrading to you, and not only you, but to anyone who gets called that because it makes the person think that they resemble a prostitute and it is not enjoyable.
Get in a discussion with her that it is much more complimenting if someone is called beautiful or pretty, and being called hot and sexy is not okay. Tell her that you knows she's young and might not understand why fully, but you want her to understand because you care about her. Explain to her why it bugs you, but you don't want her to stop telling you things. Tell her that you are not yelling at you, but is expressing your distaste to the inappropriate comment (high schoolers do talk like this so don't say anything about it being too mature for her).
Let her know that it isn't a compliment and go on to say that if anyone calls you that, that they only see her for how she looks instead of how she is as a person. If she thinks it's a compliment, or doesn't see why you believe that, tell her it's a lack of respect. They think they are complimenting her when they aren't. They are taking her independence away from her and making her submissive to the polygamist society and that is not something that should be done.
Teenagers like this will make dirty jokes like that, and let it be. It is normal. If you tell her to not make comments like that, she won't want to tell you things anymore. Just express your opinions and if she yells back, say that you aren't yelling at her, you want to have a discussion with her like a debate. If you get her in the habit of debating with you, it will give you more insight to how she thinks, along with giving her insight into how you think and why you think like that. Never yell. Never say, "you're wrong" unless she is completely wrong. And never judge her for what she tells you because she is going to have to make her won mistakes, and you have to hope she tells them to you.
Source(s): I'm 19 - Anonymous7 years ago
Yes, teenagers nowadays DO talk like that, sadly.......because of the whole YOLO and R.A.G.E and even S.W.A.G.
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- Anonymous7 years ago
No it's not normal for them to say that they are just 16yr old perverts because they just want something from you and yes please talk to you child about the talk. I really don't have much to say because the 19yr old person already answered it for you.
Source(s): Me - Anonymous7 years ago
I am a teenage girl, and I can tell you people in my school/year totally talk like that. Everyone I have heard say things like 'your mum is cute' are just joking, trying to get a laugh from their friends. Yes it can be innapropriate but I don't think they are saying it to be sexual in anyway towards your daughter.
I guess 'hot' and 'sexy' are used a lot with teenagers, for actors, celebrities etc. I think standards from some boys have dropped from using the word 'beautiful' to 'hot'.
You should have a talk with her, and make sure the people saying those things are her friends (or people she knows would never harm her) If not, there is less of a risk of her getting pregnant, and she can finish her work at school in peace.