Pass this along to your girls.....

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Pass this along to your girls.....
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Fri, 01-27-2006 - 8:56am

Good Morning Ladies,
I found this on a profile on my daughter's Myspace. Before you comment on her having a Myspace...believe me, it is heavily monitored. First, our computer is in a common area...second, before she opens any comments or accepts anyones invites to be her or their friend, it is opened by me and I read the other person's myspace.Plus, I do random checks when she is IM ing...she has very little room to do anything sneaky. I've read alot of her "friends" myspace' and have literally been shocked at how "slutty" these young girls are (12 and 13)...anyway, here is what I found on one of her friend's profiles and I really like it. My daughter lives by it...as she doesn't have a boyfriend as the boys are now into picking the "easy" one's and not necessarily the smart, confident girls.

Girls are like apple trees.
The best ones are at the top, but boys don't want to reach for the ones up there because they are afraid of falling & getting hurt.
Instead, they grab the rotten ones at the bottom; those ones aren't nearly as good, but they are the easiest to get.
So the apples at the top think that there is something wrong with them, but in reality, they are amazing; they just have to be patient and wait for the right guy who will take the time to get a ladder

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Fri, 01-27-2006 - 11:28am
Very sweet.
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Registered: 08-31-2004
Fri, 01-27-2006 - 11:28am

Bravo!!!! That is really nice. I am going to pass that along to my 18 year old.

And I will comment on myspace. I think it is evil and should be shut down. It has gotten out of hand and you are sooo right. I have never seen girls so bold and with no morals in all my life.

Well I feel better, sorry for sounding mean.

Andie

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Registered: 09-07-2004
Fri, 01-27-2006 - 2:06pm
Love it! I'm going to post it on my refrigerator for my 13 and 12 year old DDs.
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Fri, 01-27-2006 - 2:11pm
Both of my DD's have a Myspace, heavily monitored as well. My youngest(16) has this little paragraph copied and put up on her mirror. She loves it because this is exactly how she felt last year when no one asked her on dates. She's a beautiful girl that won't be "easy" and would hear comments at times about what a 'goody-goody' she is. She has found a nice boy this year and is very glad she stuck with her morals even though at times she felt like there must be something wrong with her....
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Fri, 01-27-2006 - 4:09pm
I love this, and it's mostly true. I'm going to share it with my SON, who needs to be reminded that the good ones are at the top and worth reaching for! He tends to find the rotten ones that are already on the ground and strongly resembling crap, and he steps in it and thinks he's got to stop and deal with it, when what he really needs to do it wipe it off his shoe and move on.
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Sat, 01-28-2006 - 10:49am

Wow, I'm impressed. She's figured this out at a very young age. Good for her.

Mily

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Sat, 01-28-2006 - 6:35pm
The verse is sweet but I think there are alot of good reasons for our daughters to not be so concerned about this stuff. I know it's considered somewhat "natural" and "accepted" for girls of 12, 13, 14 to be fawning over boys but, really, I think we should be encouraging them to make as many friends as possible, girls and boys, and to leave the boyfriend/girlfriend stuff to later in life. It shouldn't be about trying to figure out why boys don't want them -- they shouldn't be caring about that at all. Our girls should be defining themselves not by their attractiveness to the opposite sex but by their intelligence and grace and generosity and drive and unique personal talents.
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Registered: 11-13-2004
Sun, 01-29-2006 - 12:41pm

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ROFL... I love it.
What a potent metaphor, as with the OP.

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Registered: 01-29-2006
Sun, 01-29-2006 - 9:48pm
That saying is so very true. I tell my daughter its ok to be different. Anyone can be like the person they're sitting next to, but it takes a special person to be different.
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Mon, 01-30-2006 - 2:32am
thanks! LOL We talk a lot around here about "stepping in it" LOL