Dear Girls,
Cc: Daddy
Re: Travel
Dear Girls,
A few weeks ago, Daddy asked me to start making a list of things I want to do in my life. There’s a bunch of stuff on it, but three of them are specifically to do with you:
1. Pay for half of a car for you guys when you get your licenses – matching your own savings.
2. Give you the opportunity of education at whichever university you chose, without the burden of student loans.
3. The gift of travel – do the Europe or Australia thing after graduation, before you immerse yourselves in studies. Maybe learn some new languages, meet some foreign friends, enrich yourselves with different cultures. Do more than suntan all day with neon pink bands around your wrists at swanky all-inclusive resorts and dance on tables all night in bars called ‘Kahlua’s’ and ‘The Zoo’ while chugging ladies only two-for-one strawberry margaritas…ahem…like some kids do.
But. Last night I saw this:
And just so you know well in advance, I take it back and you are not to leave Canadian soil without us.
There may come a time – like it did for me – that you have a tight group of friends. One that includes many strong, big, protective guys. Your Daddy will like them and trust them because they don’t speed, don’t drink and drive, respect women and elders and spend more time playing video games with him than they do hanging out with you.
Mommy had this and was allowed onto foreign lands, unchaperoned, at 18 years old, but seeing it’s a different day of age, we should probably move that up to 30 for you girls, mkay?
Okay.
I love you so much, baby girls.
~ Mommy (or ‘Jennifer’ as you so love to call me these days)
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Damn. I’m still trying to shake off that movie. Watching it completely exhausted me and then I couldn’t sleep for an hour. Scary, intense, sad, brutal, heart-wrenching, disturbing – especially for parents of girls. A huge eye-opener.
Highly, totally, 100% recommended.
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I’ve heard it’s a great film, but the subject matter, I cannot take. For obvious reasons.
i saw this movie. i promptly locked the roo-girl in her room.
forever.
Yes, it was and I – I wanted to lock them in their rooms until they were grown or I was old and senile and couldn’t remember anymore. I guess I still have a few years to figure out how to get over my fear and let my girls live and expand their wings, otherwise, momma’s going to get to party like she 18 when she 45!
~K
Oooh – creepy movie. Don’t know if I could watch…
Would love to see the rest of your list, though. These days I doubt I could even muster up enough brain power to write a list of my own!
My oath that looks like a scary movie!
ha, that movie was so retarded (in a good way, but retarded).
what was the body count? a 100? The movie slays cuz Liam destroys bad guys… but not too many Western Girls are kidnapped for sex slavery and not found. If suburban white girls stepped off airplanes and went missing in Paris, it would be a BIG deal.
That said, I wanna learn some serious martial arts!
Echo on all of that. How my mum and dad stayed sane while I travelled I have no idea
Taken is brilliant but soooooo scary
xx
Dude, that movie STILL effs with me.
Hey Jen, long time, no hear from me. Still reading, promise. Life’s been sucky lately though. This post prompted me to comment.
My 7 year old step-daughter believes she can take down a grown man and can navigate her way through the woods, all on her lonesome (she actually did the woods thing and bragged about the grown man thing). This is a gift from her mom, who’s taught her kiddie self-defense. She thinks she’s invincible.
It freaks me out. And puts me in a very difficult predicament.
A kid having self-confidence is wonderful. However, what if it makes them unsafe? What if in trying to moderate that confidence with reality, you step on the Mom’s toes? What if the Mom’s belief is the kid’s self-confidence above and beyond anything else, including reality?
It’s a toughie. Maybe I should tell her mom to watch Taken. Maybe then she’ll see reason.
Thanks for the thought provoking post. And the validation that my gut is correct. Sorry for the rant.
Jeebus! That preview had me shivering through the entire thing!