In an old home movie, young Natalie is laughing and running around with a soccer ball. But a few years later, that laughing, carefree young girl was sold for sex allegedly through the website, Backpage. She estimates she was paid for sex over times, and she firmly believes that the site made it possible for her pimp to post ads offering her for sex over and over again. All day, every day. Natalie is now a year-old mother with a toddler and another baby on the way. She is part of a major lawsuit against Backpage.
With Child Sex Sites on the Run, Nearly Nude Photos Hit the Web - The New York Times
While activities at school, new interests, and a growing social life become more important to growing kids, parents are still the anchors, providing love, guidance, and support. And that connection provides a sense of security and helps build the resilience kids needs to roll with life's ups and downs. Your preteen may act as if your guidance isn't welcome or needed, and even seem embarrassed by you at times. This is when kids start to confide more in peers and request their space and privacy — expect the bedroom door to be shut more often. As hard as it might be to swallow these changes, try not to take them personally. They're all signs of growing independence. The best way to weather them is through balance: allow growing room by expanding boundaries, but continue to enforce important house rules and family values.
This has been a work in progress. I do this on purpose. My grandma had muscular thighs and stretch marks, saggy breasts, varicose veins, and a long back side. So do I.
Please refresh the page and retry. P icture this: a year-old boy is flirting with one of his year-old classmates on his phone. She sends him one back.