Emerging
The child is a seething mass of contradictions. She towers over her peers and wears her bra as though it’s a badge of honour. She longs to shave her legs and wax her eyebrows, yet she sleeps with stuffed toys. She can play for hours with her cats, or develop long, involved dramas with her toys, yet she can take part and contribute meaningfully to ‘adult’ conversations. She is politically aware and discusses the machinations of the election process. She has reached her own conclusions about global warming (’sounds like a load of shit to me’) yet she still faithfully puts her lost teeth in a glass of water for the Tooth Fairy and can’t quite let go of Santa.
She is witty, writes beautifully and makes scathing observations of all she sees, yet just occasionally she will be watching a scary movie, and ask for reassurance that it is only a movie, and therefore not real. She is charming, outgoing, attractive and confident, yet insecure. She is unsure of who her true friends are, and has a very complicated relationship with her grandmother. She has a very mature sense of humour and can laugh at herself, but laughs out loud at toilet humour. She finds farts very, very funny indeed. She fiercely pursues independence at every opportunity, yet cries when the bus leaves for camp.
She is tempestuous, tentative: she is ten.
This post was written as part of Mamablogga’s Group Writing Project for October. Why don’t you give it a try?
You summed her up perfectly!
Isn’t ten an age of contradictions?
Comment by tiffany — October 10, 2007 @ 12:03 pm
Ah yes… the age of “tweens”- not really a teenager, but not really a little kid anymore. Isn’t it maddening? LOL
Loved how you used the contrasts in your post to describe your daughter. Excellent writing! (I’m an English major!
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Thanks for sharing your post with the GWP! I loved reading it.
~Michelle
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Comment by Michelle (beartwinsmom) — October 10, 2007 @ 1:55 pm
I agree with Tiff - the pre teen years are a contradiction every few hours.
You write well ! How beautiful a description of your daughter.Make sure you save it for her 21st.
Even better write her a letter.
Comment by Babyamore (Trish) — October 11, 2007 @ 6:47 am
Perfectly put!
Comment by Summer — October 11, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
Perfectly put!
Comment by Summer — October 11, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
Can we schedule a playdate? Your daughter sounds like my kind of gal!
Comment by Ursula — October 11, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
This sounds like a whole bundle of fun. What a great way of putting it..
Comment by Jennifer — October 12, 2007 @ 9:35 am
This sounds like a whole bundle of fun. What a great way of putting it..
Comment by Jennifer — October 12, 2007 @ 9:35 am