Mom’s Responsibility for Teen Attire
Let’s be honest. How many of us have looked at a teenage girl and commented, “How did her mother let her out of the house in that outfit?” When my daughter turned 14 and began relishing her newly developed body, I wanted to dig out her old pre-school button declaring, “I dressed myself.” Knowing girls who leave the house in a parentally approved outfit and change into something less “modest” in the car, I decided that I would rather know what my daughter is wearing. Believe me, we have had the discussions that begin, “How do you think that outfit makes you look?” But it was hard to argue her response, “It is not the outfit, it is how you act that counts.”
Today, my daughter is 17 and finally dresses more appropriately. Just last week she said giggling, “Mom, how did you let me out of the house in some of those outfits.” Like it was up to me.
What do you think?
