For grounding my daughter for reading a book on how to get famous???

[MelissaCr]

A couple of days ago I oerheard my 16 year old daughter talking about ways to make the perfect sex tape with her best friend. I interupted the conversation and found that they were reading a book that teaches the many ways of becoming famous (including making and leaking a sex tape!!)

I grounded her but she feels I'm overreacting. Am I?

Any advice will help ;-)

YABVVVVVU. You're basically punishing her for having an opinion that is not the same as yours. Disagree with her by all means, explain your viewpoint to her but don't ground her and don't confiscate the book, either. 16 is old enough to read whatever she likes.

@ Iggly and Worra Liberty

Yes it is a book....aptly titled It's All About The Sex Face: A Guide To Becoming A Celebrity

:-(

It is sad that your daughter is reading such shite but grounding isn't the answer IMO

Reminds me of the time dd came home and said the headmaster had suggested he would give a prize for anyone who was on the TV in the next year. She asked for suggestions. She didn't however think much of either of mine which were:

1. Go round to a friends who has a TV (we don't). Sit her on top of the TV and take a photo for proof.
2. Murder the headmaster. I assured her this would get into all the papers and make a lot of TV viewing.

She didn't think he'd find either acceptable.

DeWe

OP have you looked at the book? I just did an online search out of curiosity and it seems to be fairly tongue in cheek.

Yabu she can have sex at 16, she is entitled to be curios and talk about/read a book.

At 16 she is old enough to reject every single one of your opinions and values. This is what teenagers do. You can insist on certain standards of behaviour while she lives in your home but you have no right at all to try to control her opinions and beliefs, and certainly no right to police her reading material. If you've done a reasonable job as a parent she probably won't come to much harm. However, punishing her for reading a book is bad parenting.

YABU!

For heavens sake, I read about and discussed all sorts of things with my friends when I was a teenager. I didn't actually go out and do any many of them.

Once there was a complicated love situation where we decided the only way it could be resolved was to bumf of one particular chap. Of course we didn't become murders and actually do it! And the situation went away anyway, because we were teenagers, and actually it wasn't as big a deal as we thought.

Anyway, off to order the book. I quite fancy knowing how to become famous.

I would have thought that they are joking tbh.
If not then thats sad.

I would have a good talk, buy her some inspirational biographies and show her pictures of how these people who are famous for 5 min end up.

Good luck with that. I am a mum to a 17 year old. They do not come with instruction manuals, though they should!! Not sure your plan will work though.