Thursday 29 December 2016

Update: Daughter received a sext. What do you do?


After receiving tons of advice that involved everything from people thinking I was a moron for even caring to people thinking I was a moron for not getting the kid thrown in jail, my daughter and I came to a decision on what to do.After I gave her the phone back the following morning (after deleting the picture) she had a message from him asking if she was mad at him. I asked my daughter about how she wanted to handle it and she wanted me to call him first. I called him and told him who I was. I told him that I knew about the picture and asked him if he understood the gravity of the situation. I explained to him that he was distributing child pornography. I also informed him that this picture was unsolicited and is considered sexual harassment. He started crying and apologizing. He was begging me not to tell his parents. I know a pretend cry when I hear one and this was not that. I am sure of it. He was genuinely afraid of what his parents would do if they found out.I told him that I wasn't going to tell his parents (go ahead and judge all you want), but that I wanted to hear him say that he wasn't going to do it again nor was he going to spread rumors about my daughter at school. He promised that he wouldn't.I gave the phone to my daughter and allowed her to speak to him. She told him that she still wants to be friends, but she wants him to respect her boundaries. She told him that she needs some space and told him that she wanted to stop texting for a while. She asked him why he sent it and told him that he didn't have to do things like that to get a girl to like him. He told her that he was really embarrassed and hopes they can somehow make their friendship work again in the future. He agreed to give her some space.The kids start school again next week, so I am hoping everything goes well once they start seeing each other on a regular basis.I know plenty of people will disagree with our decision, but I am happy about how it turned out. This all happened yesterday and I wanted to update the helpful people in the thread, but I didn't want to deal with the same drama that took place in my previous thread. People got off topic and started to question my parenting decisions. I think we all come here for advice and it would be nice if people could do that without being so judgmental. We are all trying our best here. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2ht2uDK

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