My middle child, who is sixteen, has begun sending messages to girls that he wants to engage in sexual activity. When I read the messages I began to hyperventilate. It was just yesterday that he was running around stark naked trying to not get dressed and couldn’t sleep alone after watching scary movies. I guess I have blinked through the majority of his years and now I am dealing with this.
I was
sixteen when I found out I was pregnant. It was too late for my mom to find
text messages in my cell phone; oh yea,
we had no such thing! I was seventeen when I had my first child and I try my
best to not have my children rearing kids at a young age. So, now you can imagine why I am so heartbroken
after reading these messages.
As much as I
would like to look at him as being my young son and want to keep him tied to my
hip, I realize that is pure silliness. He is growing up so fast and wants to
start making some “grown” man choices. I
just want to believe that I have instilled in him the values that will dictate
some good decision-making on his part.
