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Should I allow my 15 yr old to wear thongs?

74 replies

LaurenConway · 22/07/2010 15:51

My daughter Riley is 15 and wants to start wearing thongs becuase all the other girls do. I don't usually have a problem with whatever she chooses to do, but I just feel wierd about this.
My husband Matt, being the typically male, doesn't care and said I'm a slight hypocrite as I waer them myself and let my eldest wear them too.
I just don't want my daughter to be like the other girls I see with everything hanging out, or should I let her make her own choices? HELP!

OP posts:
QueenofDreams · 22/07/2010 16:28

I grew up calling knickers panties - but that wasn't in the UK and everyone called them that.

LaurenConway · 22/07/2010 16:31

1 about agonizing pains during the night. and another how i should manage to go back to work once my maternity leave finishes.

OP posts:
GetOrfMoiLand · 22/07/2010 16:31

Yes I am a super Feminist

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/07/2010 16:32

Oh X posts with Shirley (who was far funnier, to be fair)

ShirleyKnot · 22/07/2010 16:33
paisleyleaf · 22/07/2010 16:34

"trimester"? you're getting good now.

RedArsedBaboon · 22/07/2010 16:36

Think back to when you were pregnant with your 15 year old daughter. Obviously you have been there before.

ShadeofViolet · 22/07/2010 16:37

1/10

GypsyMoth · 22/07/2010 16:37

big age gaps there lauren.

ZeppoMarx · 22/07/2010 16:38

I truly love that of all the pressing, life changing issues paying on your tiny mind atm the most urgent, requiring the thread to be started immediately, was the question of your teen's underwear. Nice priorities there Lauren.

Komodia · 22/07/2010 16:41

God I would hate to have such a massive gap in my life that I needed to make up stories about a 15 year old's underwear.....sicko

ShirleyKnot · 22/07/2010 16:41

That's a bit personal ILove

QueeferSutherland · 22/07/2010 16:45

OP, do you call boobs "titties"?

FakePlasticTrees · 22/07/2010 16:50

Can I just say, I read that as "pantry drawer" and wondered why OP's family kept their undercrackers in the kitchen.

Sorry, you lot get back to bashing the 'really rather crap at this game' troll.

MrsJM · 22/07/2010 16:53

Why would anybody ask this? Its not exactly a problem.

GypsyMoth · 22/07/2010 16:54

whats 'a bit personal' shirley??

ShirleyKnot · 22/07/2010 16:57

I read your post wrong and thought you'd said "you've got a big gap"

EccentricaGallumbits · 22/07/2010 16:58
  1. if the pain is agonising, wy wait until the following afternon to ask a bunch of randon imaginary truckers rathr than prhaps asking your midwife or phoning for an ambulance?
  1. yu go bac wen your maternity laveends lik everyone else does.

ps. panty????? draw????

cestlavie · 22/07/2010 17:01

Shouldn't the discussion about panty 'draws' be occupying a whole section in 'Pedants Corner', um, which is where I often lurk

I'm actually feeling more disturbed by that spelling...

SirBoobAlot · 22/07/2010 17:02

Ohh have the holidays started?

scurryfunge · 22/07/2010 17:03

yep, at 15.51hrs

BaronessBomburst · 22/07/2010 17:06

PML!

Panty-drawer! Panties, indeed. And names like Lauren and Riley - it's a Yank.

And a man.

Trollie, trollie, come back and play. I'm bored and even MIL and SIL threads aren't doing it for me today...... Lala laaa!

chibi · 22/07/2010 17:06

this is how i know i am now british

i say knickers by default and 'panties' now sounds v weird to me

cestlavie · 22/07/2010 17:38

I don't know about the American angle.

Wouldn't the 'husband' have been called Chuck or Chip or Billy Joe Jim Bob or something?

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