To send DD to live in a convent?

[TinyTimLivesinVictorianSqualor]

I have just found a ton of little love notes and drawings saying 'Ben is cute' 'Brandon is cute' 'I love you Luke' etc in DD's book bag.
She has just turned 8.
AIBU to lock her up til she is about 40?

Nah, just send them to Ben. That'll sort it.

have you ever met a nun?

I'm not really interested in the Nun side of it, I'd do a rapunzel but I don't have a tower.

On the plus side her writing was much neater than normal...

oh the power of love can make them spell better...
meant nun I knew had a boyfriend who was a pilot, he sometimes stayed at the convent as a guest

Shit. Convent won't work then. Girls only boarding? Home ed?

could always just encourage and keep talking about it everyday in a positive way she will just feel bored by the transgression thing and swear off boys

I know there are flaws in that plan

Hmmm, yes.
Maybe I'll rethink that one

Dh swears by the cupboard under the stairs for DGD,

Being a nun didn't stop Julie Andrews copping off with whatisname in The Sound of Music. Best not.

DSis and BIL are farmers, and there's a long straight road leading into the yard - you can see anyone coming along it ages before they reach the house. Their DDs are 10 and 8. BIL says he's getting a shotgun............

We don't have a cupboard under the stairs, how about the attic? (no nasty arsenic biscuits will be fed to her)

Hi TTLiVS - definitely not a girls only boarding school, I went to one of those & trust me it will not stop her sneaking to the nearest boys school, having clandestine meetings in the nearest town when she's allowed out on Saturday I'd go with attic personally, a very high one if possible - buy a castle in the remote highlands

I'm going to buy this house and board up the windows.

LOL VS & definitely don't let her grow her hair!

I agree- not a girls' only boarding school.

Dd at 12 is still comparatively uninterested in the boys at school ("have you seen them, Mum); the girls at the boarding school I briefly attended were incapable of such detachment.

(am I the only one to think it's fun when they start growing up? )

Sounds as though the convent's out, and IMHO teh house in Luca is recipe for disaster (have you seen the Italian men?!), as is boarding school (all boys, and even weirdy male teachers, become appealing in that environment).

Coudl you have someone sink a very deep well in the garden?

A well, ah-hah! Sounds good.
I told her that boys aren't cute, her brother is a boy and he wipes his bum with his hands, kittens are cute, rabbits are cute, boys just smell.
D'ya think that will buy me some time?

Possibly VS, but not much!

If that sort of thing worked, VS, we'd none of us get laid. She's a woman in the making. Resign yourself to it!

This remidns me of a story my tutor told me at college once actually.

She was a maths tutor so she was teaching the guys doing aero-something-or-other and said they were the most childish she had ever come across.

One boy was writing notes and passing them round the class, so she asked him to give her it.

He ate it.

It's pretty likely that the boys her age would run a mile if she actually delivered one of these notes - not because your dd is unpleasant in any way, but because at that age, most boys thing girls are yucky. I well remember my ds3 coming home from school and telling me that the girls had played kiss-chase with him in the playground (them chasing) - but not to worry mum, because he ran faster than they did!! When I told him that one day he might want one of them to catch him, he looked appalled.

And you are not too many years from puberty, when the boys will, by and large, stay smelly, grubby and interested mainly in sports/cars/bikes whilst your dd will find an ever greater interest in hygiene, pretty things and talking to her girlfriends - and will want nothing to do with the smelly boys her own age.

Disclaimer:
My views are based on my experience of my three ds's - aged 11, 13 and 15 - I know that other people's ds's of a similar age are probably fragrant, well mannered babe magnets.

I hope you're right sunnygirl, I mean she could at least think Theo is cute, his mum makes him he brushes his hair.

Have you ever read the history of the Popes and of the catholic church, lets just say that nuns in history are not as chaste as they should be, nor are bishops for that matter.

It's ok believer, I'm thinking a well or an attic now.

I have a well!

Bring her round........