The Terrible Tweens

Nothing much really has been going on. Same ol same ol. Except the kid is starting to act like more of a teenager now.  In the midst of acting like a little kid of course!  It's just a bizarre time.   One night we were watching a movie that was PG-13.  I don't remember what it was, but it did have some adult themes and was a grown uppish sort of movie.  It wasn't so bad that we felt she couldn't watch it.  But she was holding her teddy bear throughout it.  Just that made me feel like we shouldn't be watching it.  Her sitting there like a little kid clutching her teddy, I felt we should have been watching Cinderella or something.  It was odd.  

And now she has a "boyfriend" at school.  That's not so bad.  She even asked if she could.  Joe & I talked about it and we had boyfriends and girlfriends in school that were just at school.  You just went around at school holding hands or whatever and that was pretty much it.  And the schools these days have "touching" policies where you can't (or aren't supposed to) have PDA.  But no one is watching 100% of the time.  But still, we didn't think that was so bad.  We were also hoping that having a boyfriend would help her with her hygiene that we've been having trouble getting her to care about.  I.E. wiping food off her face after she eats, having food in her teeth hours after she ate something....she's been bad about that.  She *may* have gotten slightly better about that.  Slightly.