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    Here Comes The Sun

    Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls

    They Grow Up So Fast

    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret: How Have I Not Written About This Book Yet?

    Things You Can't Undo: Stretching Yourself Thin

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    Oldies But Goodies

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    Image of Lin-Z [linguist on duty] Lin-Z [linguist on duty]
    05/18/09

    In reply to Here Comes The Sun
    I love the 'bitch please' face of the girl in the front!
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    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    05/18/09

    In reply to Here Comes The Sun
    That girl on the right is giving a MEAN side-eye! Boy!
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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    05/18/09

    In reply to Here Comes The Sun
    I love traditional Korean dress. It looks so comfy (unlike kimonos which are definitely not).
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    Image of MizJenkins MizJenkins
    05/18/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: Totally comfy. Like a maternity smock with a little jacket.


    Comes very much in handy at the giant buffet that follows every Korean celebration.

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    Image of mbot says Spock yeah! mbot says Spock yeah!
    05/18/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: The top can be a little binding, too. My mom said it was because big breasts were shameful so they had to be held down. Yikes!
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    Image of Penny Penny
    05/18/09

    In reply to Here Comes The Sun
    I must be hungry, because all I see is a big cupcake with awesome sprinkles.
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    Image of EsmereldaFitzmonster EsmereldaFitzmonster
    05/18/09

    @Penny: Me too!
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    Image of leslieannelevine leslieannelevine
    05/18/09

    In reply to Here Comes The Sun
    Hey, if I were Korean I would have gotten to do that today! No fair!
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    Image of MizJenkins MizJenkins
    05/18/09

    @leslieannelevine: I see what you did there...Happy Birthday!!


    You still have time to go to your nearest Korean BBQ and eat your face off. That's always a vital part of any Korean celebration.

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    Image of MarissaExplainsItAll MarissaExplainsItAll
    05/18/09

    In reply to Here Comes The Sun
    Definitely more colorful than my Quince...JEALOUS!
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    Image of Brigit Brigit
    05/18/09

    @MarissaExplainsItAll: Totally more colorful than mine! Those outfits rock so much more, too.
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    Image of shewar shewar
    05/18/09

    In reply to Here Comes The Sun
    What is that hat? It looks tasty.
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    05/14/09

    In reply to Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls
    This article also came up in the Guardian from the same Kaz Cooke book...


    [www.guardian.co.uk]


    I'm 30 and I think I could still benefit from reading this book!

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    Image of KetchupFiend KetchupFiend
    05/14/09

    In reply to Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls
    Ha ha, the question about "Do I move or what?" reminds me of my friend who, considering having sex for the first time confided, "But... I just don't know where to put my hands!!"
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    05/14/09

    @KetchupFiend: Hey, that's a valid question, right?
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    Image of Notes from the underwhelmed Notes from the underwhelmed
    05/14/09

    In reply to Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls
    Damn my mom was cool. When I went through puberty, my mom was like "This is going to be the most miserable part of your life. Everyone is going to suck, all of your friends will act like assholes, and you will cry whenever someone looks at you crosseyed. That's how this works."


    She also listened to me talk about crap for about an hour a day, promised to never refer to my teen years as "the best years of my life," and said she'd kill me if I ever came home and told her I was popular (because then she'd know I was a jerk to someone.).

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    Image of ellaesther ellaesther
    05/14/09

    @Notes from the underwhelmed: Ok, I'm taking notes from your mom, too.
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    Image of girl.of.your.dreams girl.of.your.dreams
    05/14/09

    @Notes from the underwhelmed: Lucky! Your mom sounds totally rad.
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    05/14/09

    In reply to Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls
    Also, when I got my period, I remember my Dad announcing that he was going to erect a sign in the front yard announcing the event.
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    05/14/09

    @saintbernadette: Therapy? Thanks Dad!
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    Image of Etoiles Etoiles
    05/14/09

    In reply to Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls
    On my thirteenth birthday (which, by dint of HORRIBLE coincidence, was also the start of my first period) my mother sat me down and said:


    "Thirteen sucks. Don't take it out on us."


    Perhaps the truest advice I ever heard.

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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    05/14/09

    @Etoiles: I told the slightly expanded version to my daughter. Being a teenager can be very hard, but you just have to get through it. And it isn't new or our fault.
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    Image of ellaesther ellaesther
    05/14/09

    @Etoiles: I remember being 13 and feeling such overwhelming fury at my mother -- some sheer hormones, some no doubt the spill-over from a pretty sucky first 11 years -- and knowing, just knowing that once I was no longer 13, some of it would be better. And it was, thank God in heaven.


    I'm going to borrow this from your mom, and this @badmutha: from you, badmutha. You are an excellent mutha, as I aspire to be!

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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    05/14/09

    In reply to Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls
    I'd like to add, don't act like your teen daughter's crushes are "so cuuuute." It's belittling and isolating, because at the time teen crushes and romances are very important.
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    05/14/09

    @Flackette Goes Retro: Exactly. This is why I never, ever told my Mom about people I liked.
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    Image of HuckleberryFriend HuckleberryFriend
    05/14/09

    @Flackette Goes Retro: Word. Or fights with friends- I remember having a huge fight with my best friend and coming home in tears only to have my parents rolls their eyes at me. I really felt hurt, at the time that fight seemed like the end of the world.
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    Image of ellaesther ellaesther
    05/14/09

    @HuckleberryFriend: Because the thing was, at the time, it kind of was the end of the world. I try really, really hard to remember that just because something doesn't look important to me, from my 44 year old perch of experience and grown-up-ness, that doesn't mean it isn't important to my kids. They're the ones who get to decide that, not me.
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    Image of wooden_shoes wooden_shoes
    05/14/09

    In reply to Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls
    I remember learning about periods in girl scouts (my mom was the leader, so I guess it was her way of telling me without having to tell me) and I remember going home and watching tv and thinking "all of these women have their period..." and it totally freaked me out in a big way.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    05/14/09

    @wooden_shoes: LOL, that's just like when you realize that your parents, and all of your friends' parents, and all grownups everywhere, including the gross ones, have had the sex. I remember having a really hard time looking my dentist in the eye for a while. I don't know why him in particular. I just knew he had sex. Gah.
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    Image of gangey gangey
    05/14/09

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: I had the same problem with people at church! About the same time I got The Talk, a lady at church was pretty hugely pregnant, and I went to church that week and looked at her and her husband and thought "he put his penis in her vagina!" And then I looked around at the people with babies and thought "He put his penis in her vagina!" And then I looked at basically all the grownups and thought "All those men put their PENISES in all those ladies VAGINAS!"


    And my mind was blown. And a little grossed out.

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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    05/14/09

    @gangey: Since then, one of my very worst superpowers is that I can realistically imagine anyone having sex. Good for the writing life; very bad for being able to take other people seriously.
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    05/14/09

    In reply to Author Gives Non-Hysterical Advice On Talking To Teen Girls
    As the mutha of a teen, they are not as bad as they are made out to be. My daughter is responsible, hard-working, and reasonably respectful for the most part. She doesn't like it when I have her call, or check her story, but that is my responsibility!We talked about sex years ago when she was 8.
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