My DD11 has been interested in boys from afar for some time, but has become more actively interested lately. Her interest appears to be more...romantic/spiritual/cognitive/yearning for connection???....
I think that's the problem with some of the PG kids. Since they are reading teenager books much earlier, their fantasy is way ahead of their physical age. (We love them to read but 2 years ago (when DD was 8), I was shocked by finding out what she was reading). We don't have that problem yet but I can see that happening soon enough.
I must respectfully disagree.
My DD has
nothing like what one might reasonably call "typical" teenaged fantasies coming out of literature or other media influences.
She
disdains such things-- openly and viscerally. She won't DRESS like other teenaged girls (never has), she doesn't like the promiscuity in pop culture, and LOATHES the dysfunctional relationship/romance stuff portrayed in things like
Twilight, which she openly mocks as cheap trash.
She is all about the
real, and her issues/concerns are very much those of many young women who are 18-22 years of age.
I've slowly come to realize that this is probably just part of the asynchrony that underlies being this LOG. It's idiosyncratic-- so I have to parent what I
have and not spend too much time worrying about "normal" as long as it doesn't seem to be too unhealthy.
It's a strange, strange world when your 15yo is a pretty college co-ed. Believe me, we are frequently
grateful that she is "attached" to someone that seems to value her just as she is. It keeps her out of the shark tank, so to speak.
