Rising from the Ashes
Paganism, life, friendship & starting over in Southern Utah.
About Dyane McSpadden & her Blog
How Faith Inspires How I Raise My Children
Dyane's Answers
How old were your daughters when they started wearing makeup?
Dyane McSpadden
I allowed my daughter (now 22) to start wearing moderate makeup at 12, as long as it was applied correctly & I was given the final say on the look. She never gave me any problems about it, and was pretty moderate with her look until she was 17 or so and then it was never really over-the-top. My mom started letting me wear makeup at 12 as well, and it worked for me.. no reason to fix what wasn't broken :)When is it appropriate to call the police on your children?
Dyane McSpadden
I have called the police on my youngest, at least three times. On two of those occasions she was booked into in jail. My kids didn't seriously rebel until they were grown, other than one incident with the same daughter when she was 14, where she & some friends broke into a storage building & vandalized the contents. My two youngest children (21 & 23) are recovering alcoholic/addicts. While my daughter was living here at the house, on probation & with no alcohol & no drug clauses in her probation order, she came home drunk a few times, denied it & I called the police both to breathalyze her & to take her to jail. The first time, she got a warning. The last two times, she wet to jail. The last time she went to jail while she was living here, I kicked her out. She was arrested a couple of months after that again & at that point, I stopped helping her pay fines, bills and her phone. It may not be stopping her behavior, but I'm not enabling it anymore, either.|
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