Comments on: Rules for Raising Daughters http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/ A parenting community where less than perfect moms can connect and commiserate. Join the club. Sun, 26 May 2013 03:12:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nick http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-142531 Nick Thu, 16 May 2013 21:03:44 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-142531 Wow, that’s exactly what happened to my most recent girlfriend and I. She wanted four kids and to raise them Catholic. I wanted three at the very most and didn’t want to force religion on them before they understand multiplication.

]]> By: Nick http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-142530 Nick Thu, 16 May 2013 20:59:40 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-142530 I’ve had the opposite experience. Every women’s restroom I’ve ever used has been worse than guys. Used tampons laying everywhere. Disgusting.

]]> By: The Mean Mama http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-139551 The Mean Mama Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:13:28 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-139551 AMen!

]]> By: The Mean Mama http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-139548 The Mean Mama Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:12:51 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-139548 I fully support everything but #19 I married young. My hubby and I finished growing up together. We didn’t have to sacrifice our own life for a life together because we didn’t really have our own lives. We were both college students and we worked together to get through college. We weren’t set in our own ways. That being said, we both knew we wanted to be family oriented not career oriented and we both look forward to an early retirement when the two of us can go play and have fun together!
(and #25 if you need to pee the men’s room is stinky, but there is never a line!)
Fully happy that you were bold enough to address the skanky side of raising girls. I once saw panties that said ‘eye candy’ across the front…they were size 6-8 in girls.

]]> By: The Mean Mama http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-139547 The Mean Mama Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:07:02 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-139547 As a fellow runner I concur, You can use any bathroom you want!
When you gotta pee you gotta pee!

]]> By: Landry http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-135524 Landry Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:08:00 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-135524 You have a few really good points in this, but oh my goodness at some of your wording. Firstly, why on Earth would I ever teach my daughter she is not “property” but I would “disown” her if she acts as if she is?! Contradictory.

Secondly, the name calling. Oh my. I will never find it acceptable to call another fellow woman a negative name based on her personal choices with her body. Slutty? Really? Name calling will never be okay with me, at the age of 5, 15, 25. Any age.

Thirdly, what’s wrong with getting married young? Plenty of women get married young and are happy. If its what she wants, then I am all for it.

Last thing – what’s wrong with “duck lips” poses? They’re not “cute,” but girls will be girls.

]]> By: tammy http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-126640 tammy Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:32:43 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-126640 No matter what you say to your daughter YOUR actions will always speak louder!

]]> By: Marie http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-125168 Marie Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:30:34 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-125168 Daisy…I can tell you that being married 21 years now its NOT easy and it does not get any easier as marriage goes along. I am happily married and getting married young does not equate to a doomed marriage BUT if you look at the numbers, most marriages that being in late teens, early 20′s do end up in divorce. There are many reasons for this and I do not think she is saying disown your child if she does decide to get married young but to at least counsel her to the pitfalls of getting married young. My mom did but ultimately she left it up to me. I was strong enough and my husband was VERY supportive in my pursuit of education. There are men out there that are not…You have to figure that out before you marry. Its not a good thing to find out that you want 4 kids and your husband wants none or you want your children to be raised Catholic and your husband does not want them raised in any religion. These are topics and reasons that DO breakup marriages but people are so in love with the idea of being in love they do not talk about simple things like this.

]]> By: Marie http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-125161 Marie Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:24:46 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-125161 I don’t think she said anything about forbidding marriage but from someone who married pretty young (21) and is still married to the same person 21 years later, I can tell you that I am going to tell my daughter to wait until later in life to get married. I was lucky…At 21 there is still so much life to be lived…I want her to go out and experience things on her own and figure out what would be best for her and what kind of person she wants to be with. I have seen too many friends who married young, had 2-3 kids, ended up divorced with no education and had to start over, trying to raise kids and relive all of the partying of their youth they lost while being married. I’m not saying I would not love my daughter or support her any less in the event she decided to do this but I would really tell her to do some souls searching to make sure this is what she wants to do….

]]> By: lisi http://www.scarymommy.com/25-rules-for-raising-daughters/#comment-121935 lisi Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:48:37 +0000 http://www.scarymommy.com/?p=23562#comment-121935 Why can’t we be smart and slutty? What does slutty mean anyway?

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