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omg, omg, O M G! dd just asked my opinion......

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 18:39

on boyfriends!

She's just started yr7 and turning 12 next week. So she says 'mummy?, what would you say if I told you a boy at school asked me out?'

So I said, 'well, I don't know really, (my baby!) Do you like him? Do you want to go out with him? (Panic, panic, panic!) She's not sure, just wanted my opinion she says. I'm thinking 'don't touch my baby, she's only 12!!!!'

She's only 12, right? Far too young to be thinking about boys, right?

Help, oh god, I'd give anything to be moaning about the terrible twos again!

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Kbear · 19/09/2007 22:46

I think he is about 17 and the other one is maybe 21. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 22:44

You should have seen my face, when she said Connor! The colour drained from my face and I went all hot, whilst the cogs turned and I realised he must be near 21!

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Kbear · 19/09/2007 22:44

doesn't it just start from START menu?

MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 22:42

I can't get on! I need dd to show me how. I need to put a password in and its her account. Its probably CONNOR!

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Kbear · 19/09/2007 22:40

Mumsnet bum cheek is a hazard I must admit!

MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 22:39

I've already got Mumsnet bum cheek (as expertly diagnosed by you), sore thighs from playing ladders with the Guides last night and a blister from wearing trainers for the first time since about April. I may need to up the Codliver oil doses!

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RTKangaMummy · 19/09/2007 22:38

I hope he is a lovely boy

Kbear · 19/09/2007 22:37

get yer arse on MSN please, let's talk in bubbles !! PSML

Kbear · 19/09/2007 22:37

Your hips don't lie mate!

MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 22:36

So true RTK, the girls are much more mature. There's a very fine line between mature and pure tartiness too! My dd is NOT the latter!

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 22:35

Sure have! I'm a bit hurty!

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Kbear · 19/09/2007 22:31

Yo Mo, you been dancin'?

RTKangaMummy · 19/09/2007 22:30

I don't mean all the girls are pushy

I meant that the girls round here are more mature than the boys

RTKangaMummy · 19/09/2007 22:29

Piffle

That is what we thought that the girls are far more mature or pushy than the boys in year 7

I agree though that the year 6 BF/GF stuff was very innocent and "sweet"

MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 22:27

Piffle! My dd ain't no hunter! I think the fact that she asked me what I though, was a good start and I also think the fact that I didn't scream NO WAY! helped too!

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Piffle · 19/09/2007 22:23

12 yr old girls are hunters
my yr7 son was pursued vigorously by several girls until he relented and went out with one of them...
he left them all after a few weeks calling them a nest of vipers
and we thought MN had coined that phrase!

law3 · 19/09/2007 22:23

lmk - i suppose thats it then education out the window from now on, just hair gel and spots!!

Lostmykeys · 19/09/2007 22:20

Have just started teahing Year 7 for the first time - can't believe how much they talk about who 'fancies' who. Also surprised to see girls with highlighted hair. They are very vain, questioning me why they can't wear makeup. Want to wrap DD (3.6) in cotton wool.

law3 · 19/09/2007 22:15

i have a ds just gone into year 7 of big boy school (his names not Connor!!) bf-gf at primary school was in name alone, its scary when they actually want to see each other outside of school

MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 22:01

I possibly would have been ok about a yr 6 bf, because I knew all the children at her primary school. This school is a different matter! I know nothing! He might be from the really scummy end of town, with no respect for anyone, who knows!

Well, the conversation ended lightly enough. I didn't say yes or no, so its up to her I guess. She's a sensible girl, with good values & morals (so far!). It was just a bit of a shock. I've only just got over the fact that she's a big girl at really big school fgs! These pre-teenage milestones are far harder than toddlers, I can tell you!

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RTKangaMummy · 19/09/2007 21:18

ooooooops meant year 3 and 4

RTKangaMummy · 19/09/2007 21:17

Sparkler

M could still be her BF in year 6 or 7

Cos the girl who was DS GF

sent him valentine cards in year 2 and 3

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sparkler · 19/09/2007 21:14

Oh I have all this to look forward to. DD is 8 and just started year 4 in her new school. She came home last week and told me that M was her boyfriend. As you can imagine I had to peel myself off the floor (and reach for a paper bag!!). I asked her what this meant and she said they met each other in the playground at playtime and that they loved each other. Awwwww!

BroccoliSpears · 19/09/2007 21:08

Y'see, when I was about that age and asked my mum about boys she said I was very silly and that only silly girls are interested in boys at that age and she'd be very cross if she heard any more about it.

So, obviously I stopped thinking about boys, joined a convent and never made a single duff decision when it came to the opposite sex for as long as I have lived.

Thanks mum.

RTKangaMummy · 19/09/2007 20:56

Also is there pressure from the rest of the class to have a BF ????

When they were in year 6 there was pressure in the girls

Who had a BF and who didn't

So is she being pressured into thinking she should have a BF ???

By either the boy concerned or by the other girls making her think she SHOULD have a BF

iyswim

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