11/10/2023 0 Comments Im growing up too fastBut she’s more aware of things now than she was before, and that’s okay, too. She does chores with enthusiasm (!!) and enjoys being the Smart Older Sister™️ to her brother’s young friends. ![]() She still has time for Mom-cuddles and still needs help identifying past participles. And so far, her new phase is the coolest phase she’s been in since the last coolest phase she had. But while we’re edging closer to those years, we’re not there yet. I’m filled with dread by the stories my friends tell of their kids’ teenage antics. But she’s maturing out of Little Girldom and into something grander. She’s still a clown when playing with her brother. It’s an interesting time, as a parent, to see the changes occurring. It’s a quiet, slow process an oozing of maturity that colors an otherwise goofball personality. With no fan-fare, no trumpets, no resounding door slamming closed on her past. Nothing to see here - move along, move along.Īnd that’s the way my tween daughter has handled every new phase she’s entered. In her view, though, she’s just executing a move. For the boys, it’s a guy’s sport, and to get their butts handed to them by a younger girl is, I’m sure, not the way they’d like to spend a Tuesday night. ![]() ![]() When she puts the older teenage boys in a rear-naked choke that they have to tap to get out of (i.e., openly concede the match), she has no clue that she’s doing anything extraordinary. Yet, she still has the childish blinders of youth that I’m grateful for. I see it in the way she smiles a little too long at the cute jiu-jitsu instructor and in the self-assured way she opines that “black belts don’t know EVERYTHING, you know.”
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