Hannah, Get Thee To A Nunnery

ABC News Story: Greene County, Georgia, in a radical move, decides to seperate boys & girls in all grades, on all campuses, in an effort to improve rock-bottom test scores, reduce pregnancies, and increase discipline. Of course, some parents are outraged....

Here's my take: I don't want 7th grade boys looking at my little girl, she's just a baby. After all, she still watches the Disney Channel, constantly. She calls Kani & me "Mommy & Daddy." She cannot make it through the night by herself when it storms outside. Until recently, she held her nose when she jumped into the swimming pool. She still sleeps with her Stitch doll. She proudly wears all of her Disney pins when we are 'On The Property.' She goes to bed early, VOLUNTARILY. She is not allowed to watch 'Raven' or 'Kim Possible.' They're just too smarty-pants.

But Hannah simply will not stop getting more curvy, and she does not always help things. The other day at the History Fair, we had to tell her to "stop jiggling." And I wish she would re-think those hair attachments & heels-I don't want people at church to think that we might be Irish Travelers, trying to get her married off. ALSO, when I try to get the info out of Hannah, she is not so forthcoming...

(Me) Did you have fun at the dance
(H) Yes
(Me) Did you talk to any boys
(H) No
(Me) Did any boys talk to you
(H) No
(Me) Did you dance with anyone
(H) No
(Me) Then why did you go to the dance
(H) I don't know
(Me) Would you like to continue this conversation
(H) No

I know good & well that Tomball boys are not just interested in football, baseball, & FFA. During my junior high years, my family lived in a small North Texas town of only 3,500 people, and every girl 'went' with every boy, at least once, for about two weeks. This phenomenon began in the 6th grade. And when I was a 7th grader, I was a little scamp, a walking hormone, smart-mouthed(imagine that), delinquent, with one foot in church and one in Juvie Hall. I was shy, but there were lots of things I dearly wanted to do with girls, were it not for being so bashful. So I don't want to hear about these little pizza-faced monkey-boys, that Hannah refers to as 'cute,' as also being innocent. To me, they are all conniving little pizza-faced monkey-boys, and they must be destroyed.

I could go on and on, but what's the use. I just happen to have a gorgeous daughter. Guess I'll just have to get used to it.