I really didn’t rebel much as a teenager. I was afraid of my mother's reaction too much, and I watched my sister pushing the envelope with my mother and I did NOT want that to be me. So my hi-jinks with Holly and Stefanie were really all I had, and I had never told my mother about roaming the neighborhoods on foot with Stefanie.
Sometime during my junior year, I started talking to some guys through AOL chat rooms. I ended up meeting two of them in person. The first guy picked me up and dropped me back off at my house after a movie, and the second guy I met at the mall and we walked around talking and he drove me home. As I’ve gotten older and have read the news about girls doing that same thing and never making it home again, and I know that I am lucky to be alive, for which I have only God to thank. I was doing something potentially fatal, and the Lord put two boys in my path that were nice, honest people and I stayed safe. I deserved the grounding I got when my ex-boyfriend told his mom when I mentioned it to him at school months later, and she in turn called MY mother. I was grounded from the computer my entire senior year and I almost wasn’t allowed to go to the prom.
I am almost glad that I have that experience, I feel like I will be better prepared than my mother was (chat rooms were a relatively new thing back then) and will be more vigilant about my kids being online for hours at a time. It’s a scary world out there, and I don’t want my kids doing what I did.
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