“I was in the car waiting while my daughter was at a drama lesson and her phone beeped. And it just kept beeping. I turned it off because I was trying to do some work, and as I reached down to look at it, a string of messages came up.”
I want to lick…
F*** me in the…
Hoe (misspelt), bitch, dirty slut.
This is how Angela Mollard discovered that tweens are sexting, and that they’re sexting her 12 year old daughter.
If you’re clutching your pearls, you’re not alone. Who knew 12-year-old kids called each other dirty sluts? Is sexting the new normal among teens and tweens?
Angela recently wrote a column for News Corp about how she reacted when she found these dirty texts. We were so aghast, we had to invite her onto This Glorious Mess to hear how she handled it.
“They were basically foul. They were disgusting… I didn’t know who they were from,” she said.
Perhaps fortunately, depending on how you look at it, the messages weren’t part of a conversation. Her daughter wasn’t even there. And as more and more filthy messages rolled in, it became clear someone had snatched the boy’s phone and was sending the messages.
“You don’t like this sort of graphic ugliness directed at your perfect little child,” says Angela.
Angela said she wanted to crawl into a hole and just ignore it, but she knew she couldn’t just be a bystander.
Sure, you’ve probably had ‘the talk’ but how the hell do you talk to a 12year-old about sexting?
As usual, Andrew Daddo chimed in with an absolute nugget of wisdom which we suggest you pass along to your kids:
“If you’re sitting there looking at a picture you’ve taken of yourself, and you’re thinking, ‘I wouldn’t show my parents or grandparents that,’ DON’T SEND IT.”
To hear more about how Angela navigated the sext talk with her daughter, listen to the full episode below.
Top Comments
Im 21 now and starting sexting at around 11-12 years old. That was the biggest leap during puberty and felt horny just thinking about sex and sexting helped satisfy those urges. As long as shes not sending pictures or any identifying info I wouldnt confront her about it. Maybe buy her a tou as I wish my mother had done. It is all apart of growing up, wake up to the real world, 12 year old girls are not stupid.
What is a tou? Please help an out of touch 50+.
And I like your comment, first I was outraged, but I completely forgot about puberty hornyness. You are right, at this age I tried to get my hand on any material (print in the 70ies) that was arousing. But were is the line to harassment? Not an easy answer.
Some (many) of us live on rural area's with lousy internet (also expensive) can we have transcripts of these vids please. Connection often drops out - never get to hear the end of things. Like here, we know what went wrong but don't have the info on how she handled it!
i prefer articles anyway and would like a transcript