My DD and Dear Abby...

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Registered: 07-19-2003
My DD and Dear Abby...
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Sat, 11-24-2007 - 5:33pm

My daughter often reads Dear Abby's advice column in the newspaper (she peruses the newspaper while having breakfast) and often remarks how much she disagrees with Dear Abby's advice to teenagers.

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Registered: 08-17-2005
Sat, 11-24-2007 - 7:23pm

I wonder who writes "Dear Abby"

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 11-24-2007 - 10:44pm

Hahaa - Dr. Laura used to play on the radio where I worked and we had no choice but to listen to her cockeyed advice! She has a history for hanging up on callers when she disagrees or they debate her response!


Our paper no longer carries the Dear Ann or Abbey columns. We have Dear Amy and she's pretty much awesome. From what I gather she is the mother of a young woman...recent teen...and she would have told that girl to be true to herself, change nothing, continue to be the fun, athletic, pretty young girl she is. She would have told her that when the time is right a REAL prince would come along and she'd still get to be who she is!

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Registered: 04-30-2000
Sun, 11-25-2007 - 12:18am

Dear Abby is written by her dd who took over the column a few years ago while her mother was still alive but memory was fading..

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Registered: 11-28-1999
Mon, 11-26-2007 - 12:12pm

I also saw that column and thought it was very old fashioned and kind of fake.

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Registered: 10-16-1999
Mon, 11-26-2007 - 6:42pm
I think as guys get older, they are more interested in sharing their time with someone who shares their interests than with someone who is pretty much arm-candy.
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Registered: 11-13-2004
Mon, 11-26-2007 - 10:07pm

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Registered: 07-19-2003
Mon, 11-26-2007 - 11:31pm

My dd, who is 16, also has alot of male friends but has had no romantic boyfriends.

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Registered: 02-14-2000
Tue, 11-27-2007 - 9:57am
I agree that it was stupid advice.
Pam
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Registered: 02-25-2002
Tue, 11-27-2007 - 10:05am
Sounds like she dug that response out of some very old archives!

 

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Registered: 11-28-1999
Tue, 11-27-2007 - 10:25am

My DD had crushes on certain boys but they were never reciprocated.