Usually if I get an email from someone I don’t know that somehow made it into my inbox (I use Gmail for my main email) usually it ends up being something spammish. I use the Gmail Notify application so I don’t have to keep it open all day long and click ‘refresh’ on the page. Reducing my need to check email gives me time to do other things, like read the people I’m following over at Twitter.
Anyway. I remember mentioning somewhere that I was upset with CafeMom because they don’t have anything regarding teens. I have a 14 year old daughter and sometimes she can be a little crazy (like her mom, her grandma and even her great-grandma - it runs in the family, all the women are a little crazy) and I don’t really have anyone or anywhere to turn to. Yes, I can whine and cry about how she’s acting just like I did at that age, that I know it’s her tone of voice and that she’s not being rude, that’s just the way her voice is (my mom always thought I was being rude or snotty when I wasn’t, it’s the damn tone of voice we have, I swear).
Some days she wants constant love, hugs, kisses, to hang all over me like she did when she was 3 (or was that the computer?) and other days she just wants to not talk, be left alone, read or write and just plain vanish from existing in the same reality bubble as we do. Again, just like me. You’d think I’d know how to handle things like this but it’s a lot harder to gauge someone else’s emotional rollercoaster, even if it is a lot like yours.
So I thought there was salvation when I decided to finally open this email from “Daughters.com” and read what it was about. Then I got to the site. They are a little late, but perhaps I can contribute in some way to the site as their age range is from 8 to 15. Perhaps I can help other moms out there when their daughter decides to abandon them for friends or the internet.
Does this mean that the site can’t help me? I don’t know, perhaps. I’d have to actually check it out more in detail to see what it is they are offering. I feel very lucky with my daughter all the time. She does her homework, she gets pretty good grades (damn that algebra) and she stays out of trouble for the most part.
So for those of you with daughters between the ages of 8 to 12 you might want to check out NewMoon.com - there is a membership fee on this site but it’s for your daughter, so perhaps an extra 30 bucks for a birthday gift won’t hurt if you can set it aside. Also, there’s a 30-day free trial membership if you want to check it out ahead of time. Then for moms raising daughters there is Daughters.com - the age range again is 8 to 15 and they look like they have some nice content up. It’s a fairly new site brought to you by New Moon Girls. So check it out, see if there is information that you can find. It’s nothing like CafeMom, so don’t think you’ll be running chat rooms and member boards, but there is still valuable information here. They also have a site for Dads: TheDadMan.com to help fathers raise the kids, too.
Do you use any of these websites? Comments regarding what you find that you like or dislike regarding them would be helpful to others. Thanks!
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