{"id":856,"date":"2015-01-14T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T05:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2015-01-14T02:22:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T02:22:29","slug":"a-perfect-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/a-perfect-10\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mom<\/a><\/p>\n

When my son Nathaniel turned ten, I was shocked– I have been doing this mothering thing for ten years! \u00a0Wow! \u00a0Those late night feedings, comforting by walking the hall endlessly, stubbed toes, chasing him down, playing dinosaur\/cars\/train, have now melded into one sporting event after another and conversations about… girls. \u00a0He is now 12. \u00a0Wow. Wow. The other moms warn me, \u201cthose\u201d years– the teen years are coming. \u00a0I have decided that my son will, of course, be a charming delight through his teenage years.<\/p>\n

I was.<\/p>\n

Really! \u00a0Ask my parents.<\/p>\n

My husband and are dismissing the occasional first grumpy clouds of teen angst as dangerous teenage \u201cexperimentation\u201d I hear about. \u00a0It will end. \u00a0\u00a0Not long after his 12th birthday, a young lady told him that she liked him\u2026 Oh my, lets stop this ride!! \u00a0It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t trust my son; I think he is beyond awesome. \u00a0This young lady is an exceptional girl; he has great taste. \"Nathaniel\"We\u2019re even friends with her parents. \u00a0Honestly, he should marry this girl! \u00a0What? \u00a0Yep, I can see the young man he is becoming. \u00a0He is great, he will be a great man like his dad, I have no doubt; but still I find myself looking for the breaks!<\/p>\n

I want to go back to when he was ten. \u00a0Then his interest in girls was observational– if they sat near my son, what words were said, if he perceived them to be having a good day or not, and each day I heard an account of how certain young lady\u2019s day went. \u00a0Now it\u2019s bashful smiles and conversations\u2014I find comfort in the fact that without asking him to he gives me a rundown of the conversation\u2026 and then it hits me. \u00a0My daughter is ten soon… whoa\u2026 that means somewhere in the neighborhood there is a boy observing her. \u00a0I feel protective and irritated that any boy could see her in a \u201cinterested\u201d way. \u00a0\u00a0Back OFF!<\/p>\n

I saw a boy at church hold the door open for her… he looked at her. \u00a0He is a nice kid. \u00a0Great\u00a0parents. \u00a0I felt totally protective. \u00a0Why is that I found my son\u2019s interest in girls okay, humorous even and proud that he was picking out such level headed academically oriented kids; but a boy holds the door open for my daughter and I suddenly want to move to the hinterlands?<\/p>\n

I remember the heartbreak of my own girlhood\u2026 \u00a0sometimes that hurt came from boys. \u00a0I was still in \u201cthe becoming\u201d and wasn\u2019t the girl they were anxious to dance with. Of course it hurt. \u00a0Then there were the other girls \u2013 teenage girls. \u00a0I didn\u2019t get it. I just didn\u2019t get the emotions that come with the roller coaster of girl doom.\"Ailsa\"<\/p>\n

I realize now, with terror, I have no skillsets to raise a teenage girl. \u00a0My teen friends were mostly guys- who I knew I could beat in an arm wrestling match any day. \u00a0My daughter is a perfect ten. \u00a0She is sooo cute! \u00a0She has it all: looks, brains and personality. \u00a0So much of my character and becoming the woman I am today came was from being overlooked by my peers– getting to be in a corner watching the world go by.<\/p>\n

I want her to stay as she is now, surrounded by her stuffed animals, playing with her American Doll and thinking I have all the answers. \u00a0I can take her turning ten, but let\u2019s stop there– at the perfect age of ten. \u00a0That, to me, is a perfect ten. \u00a0This growing up stuff is overrated!<\/p>\n

Last night I kissed my daughter as she was being tucked into bed and whispered to her as I have ten thousand times \u201cNever forget how much I love you.\u201d \u00a0I may not have all the answers to help her navigate the next ten years, but I can do what my mom did and see her as the perfect ten that each daughter of God is.<\/p>\n

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When my son Nathaniel turned ten, I was shocked– I have been doing this mothering thing for ten years! \u00a0Wow! \u00a0Those late night feedings, comforting by walking the hall endlessly, stubbed toes, chasing him down, playing dinosaur\/cars\/train, have now melded into one sporting event after another and conversations about… girls. \u00a0He is now 12. \u00a0Wow. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,261,7,1],"tags":[19,208,238,62,224,227],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-mom-2","category-philosphy","category-uncategorized","tag-beauty","tag-greene","tag-hotness","tag-kids","tag-mom","tag-mother"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourglamourconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}