What do you feel looking at your daughter growing up from a cute and innocent baby girl to a teenager and soon to be a women ? Are you being overprotective or could care less about it ? These are a few things that a mother should be concern about as their daughter growing up slowly.
Dangers of Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others social platform can become site for predator to find their target. Daughters that are immerse in these virtual world would post private things about their location, selfies, schools and friends that make it easier for people to cheat, manipulate and target them. Cases of blind date or rape occurs more often as predators could easily ask them out pretending as a friend without their parents knowing.
Puberty
When a daughter hits the puberty stage, she will undergoes tremendous stress as not only her body starts to change, but as well as her confidence and relationships with friends and family. When she has her first period, be there for her and explain to her in private, making her feel comfortable about her own body. Praise and boost her confidence and self-esteem to let her know that growing up is all about be your true self !
Body Image
The world nowadays is harsher than ever as false images of a women such as an anorexia women are deem as the beautiful one whereas the healthy women are deem as the ugly one. As daughter growing up and being expose to the media and peer pressure, she will feel insecure about her own body. It is important to teach your daughter about the correct body image and love herself instead of following the pressure of the false images projected.
Friends
Friends plays a major part in your daughter’s life as daughter will trust and believe friends more than their own mother especially if they do not have a strong mother-daughter bonding. Bad friends could make your daughter to do illegal or crime stuff outside unknowingly, and even worse having sexual intercourse at a young age due to peer pressure. Try to learn and know her friends by throwing occasionally tea parties or girl’s night for your daughter so that you can approach her friends easily.