This is my first post and I am beside myself. My shy and quiet 13yo DD (only by a matter of days) stays away occasionally with dad and family. I've discovered she is texting a boy known by the family. The texts read like a porno movie. I'm talking intimate details about what they would do and how. I read the whole thread of the conversation and wanted to be sick when I saw the pictures of their 'parts' sent to each other.
I have her phone and she does not know yet I have seen these texts. My first response is to throw her phone on the fire or in the river, ban all computer use and ground her forever. I know this is unreasonable but how do I get through to her? We have had many conversations about internet safety and the danger of photos etc. How do approach this? She is an intelligent girl and knows it must be wrong. I've read other 'sexting' posts and know from her friends this seems to happen regularly. I am dreading her visiting her dad again. I know things are different now, I was still playing with dolls when I was 13. But I do not accept this as being normal. At all.
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kezza1973 · 10/04/2013 12:16
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