I moniter my kids’ online activities, instant messages, cell phone usage, text messages, etc. They know it’s a part of being allowed to have an email address, having a Myspace page, and a cell phone.
Today I checked out my daughter’s Yahoo Answers! profile and looked at the questions she had answered. The first two were innocuous, a question about pets and “What’s the worst Hillary Duff movie?”
The third?
“What’s the wildest thing ur parents have done?”
Uh, oh.
Reagan’s respnse:
“hahaha we were at a hotel and i was in a different room. their room had a hot tub and i walked in on…….”
One, what happened to appropriate capitalization?
Two, OMG!
Three, at least she didn’t go into details!
A boy wanting advice on turning his girl friend into his girlfriend received this response from my daughter:
“aww that’s sweet. that happened 2 me once… i just kissed him and then he decided he liked me 2 lol.”
That’s an even bigger “OMG!”
But, I think she’s fibbing.
No, really, I mean it. Reagan like boys, but she’s not a “boy crazy” kind of girl (at least not yet!) and complains about her friends that are afflicted with that malady. She’s not lacking in adult supervision, has never been to a boy/girl party, so unless she’s kissin’ boys at school (highly doubtful), I think it’s pretty improbable.
Looking at her other questions, she answered a lot about pets. Her advice? “Name your dog ‘Jack,’ it’s a cute name for a cute dog.” “You don’t have to speak German to your German Shepard,” and, to someone who was still missing her dog six years after its tragic death:
“my brother killed my pet hamster a year ago. I still miss it!!!”
Um, we’ve never owned a hamster.
I guess my daughter’s online fantasy life includes kissing boys and sibling hamstercide.
I’m not sure which is worse.
17 responses so far ↓
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Rixblix
// May 9, 2008 at 7:13 pm
That’s HILARIOUS! But you sorta glossed over the hot tub incident, KPOW…
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Michael Davis
// May 9, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Hey… if that’s all that is going on with her online, more power to you as a parent and more power to her for being responsible.
Of course, you might want to change her name to “Abby” and contact the PJ Star about a job…
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mortonmalaise
// May 9, 2008 at 7:39 pm
I assure you, madam, hamstercide is no laughing matter!
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Ms. PH
// May 9, 2008 at 8:19 pm
If I was making up stories about my brother at that age, they would have been a lot worse than hamstercide! I once told my brother we had an older brother who had died in a car accident and that my (real) brother was just a replacement son. Boy, I got in a lot of trouble for that one.
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Jennifer
// May 9, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Oh, and I guess I should be glad that she thinks married hot tub sex is “wild.”
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Jimi
// May 9, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Reagan finds and reads your blog. Now that will be an interesting day.
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Cory
// May 9, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Jimi,
It’s bound to happen as soon as the kids start clicking the pull-down button on the address bar.
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Michael
// May 10, 2008 at 10:46 am
I had to quit blaspheming the school teachers when my boys found my blog. Rats!
Don’t assume you didn’t have a hamster in the house, maybe YOU just didn’t know you had a hamster. I had a lizard in my bedroom when I was kid and I had him about a year before my mother discovered him. I left him on a leash (string around his neck safety pinned to the curtain) so he could catch bugs at the window and I forgot to put him back in his cigar box before going to school. Such a lecture I got!
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Cory
// May 12, 2008 at 3:50 am
Michael,
Growing up in South Florida, most of the guys I knew had a “pet” lizard in their room that their parents didn’t know about. They ARE really nice for keeping the bug population down.
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Michael
// May 12, 2008 at 10:50 am
That’s probably where mine came from. I saw this ad for a chameleon on the back of a comic book and ordered him up with my hard earned paper route money. He showed up in a little box with meal worms and sawdust. I waited forever to watch him change colors but he was always green. I got rooked. But I was the only kid in the neighborhood with a real live lizard! I tried to set up a fight between him and a big praying mantis but they just stared at each other. What a bust! I had invited all my friends and they picked on me for weeks about my sissy lizard.
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jenjw4
// May 12, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Hmm… interesting. Secret pets? I can’t imagine such a thing.
Especially with my loud mouthed daughter, who said her life was” a living hell” when her brother ate her go-gurt. I think I’d hear about it (and the neighbor’s would, too) if he killed her pet!
Cory, Oh, and I have super secret methods of accessing my blog at home, it never appears on the drop down menu. (Okay, if she explores my “favorites” I’ll be in trouble!)
Jennifer
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Cory
// May 12, 2008 at 9:10 pm
…Or if the Autocomplete gets turned on in the address bar. Even URL’s that are accessed indirectly show up there.
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Jennifer
// May 12, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Cory,
Oh, great, more to worry about! I think I’ll set up my own log-in on the computer so hopefully that will make things more secure. I really don’t want the kids to know about my blog, not yet. I think they’ll appreciate it when they are older (and I do plan on showing them, maybe when they are in college?) but not yet.
Jennifer
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mortonmalaise
// May 13, 2008 at 2:56 am
Just trying to help.
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postsimian
// May 13, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Just be glad SHE doesn’t have a secret blog.
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mortonmalaise
// May 15, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Postsimian,
Who’s to say she doesn’t?
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Jennifer
// May 15, 2008 at 7:44 pm
OH, you guys are funny… giving me even more to worry about!
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