Teen DD wants a new dress for every nice occasion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You are going to get a lot of responses about allowing social media, natch. Give her a clothing budget and take her to a few nice thrift stores- it is fun to have something new (to her) to wear for special events. There are very few events special enough to pay retail.

“Natch”?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you allow your daughter to post pics of herself in dresses so this can hardly seem as shocking as you're making it out to be.

+1

You don’t actually have older teen girls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you allow your daughter to post pics of herself in dresses so this can hardly seem as shocking as you're making it out to be.

How many 17 year olds do you know not posting things? Just curious. I don’t know any.

My 17yo DD has no social media accounts.

She will occasionally scroll through a friend’s Instagram follows, or watch a TikTok someone sends her, but doesn’t have her own accounts. She has zero desire to post photos or videos of herself everywhere. I don’t know why, but she’s just not that kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you allow your daughter to post pics of herself in dresses so this can hardly seem as shocking as you're making it out to be.

How many 17 year olds do you know not posting things? Just curious. I don’t know any.

My 17yo DD has no social media accounts.

She will occasionally scroll through a friend’s Instagram follows, or watch a TikTok someone sends her, but doesn’t have her own accounts. She has zero desire to post photos or videos of herself everywhere. I don’t know why, but she’s just not that kid.

I would honestly find that concerning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, you allow your daughter to post pics of herself in dresses so this can hardly seem as shocking as you're making it out to be.

How many 17 year olds do you know not posting things? Just curious. I don’t know any.

My 17yo DD has no social media accounts.

She will occasionally scroll through a friend’s Instagram follows, or watch a TikTok someone sends her, but doesn’t have her own accounts. She has zero desire to post photos or videos of herself everywhere. I don’t know why, but she’s just not that kid.

I would honestly find that concerning.

NP. Then you have a problem. Not everyone feels the need to document and perform life; some of us live it. It’s very sad that PP’s teenager has the wisdom to live and enjoy life rather than curate and perform it online, and you don’t. How old are you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you allow your daughter to post pics of herself in dresses so this can hardly seem as shocking as you're making it out to be.

How many 17 year olds do you know not posting things? Just curious. I don’t know any.

My 17yo DD has no social media accounts.

She will occasionally scroll through a friend’s Instagram follows, or watch a TikTok someone sends her, but doesn’t have her own accounts. She has zero desire to post photos or videos of herself everywhere. I don’t know why, but she’s just not that kid.

I would honestly find that concerning.

NP. Then you have a problem. Not everyone feels the need to document and perform life; some of us live it. It’s very sad that PP’s teenager has the wisdom to live and enjoy life rather than curate and perform it online, and you don’t. How old are you?

DCUM is a form of social media.

[Anonymous]

Set up an OnlyFans or a monetized YouTube channel so she can pay for the dresses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, you allow your daughter to post pics of herself in dresses so this can hardly seem as shocking as you're making it out to be.

How many 17 year olds do you know not posting things? Just curious. I don’t know any.

My 17yo DD has no social media accounts.

She will occasionally scroll through a friend’s Instagram follows, or watch a TikTok someone sends her, but doesn’t have her own accounts. She has zero desire to post photos or videos of herself everywhere. I don’t know why, but she’s just not that kid.

I would honestly find that concerning.

Because you're an addict?

[Anonymous]

Delete the posts. Problem solved.

Then delete the app, and delete the phone.
She's too immature.

[Anonymous]

She can learn to sew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stick to your guns. My daughter is a maximalist and I'm really trying to hold my ground. She just bought her fourth pair of jeans. I have one.

Ummm 4 pairs of jeans is not excessive.

1 pair of jeans is not enough for most people. And going without isn’t something to brag about. There’s no medal at the misery Olympics for wearing dirty jeans.

[Anonymous]

It is like this, yes. My dd thrifts and gets dresses whenever she sees one she can see herself wearing to something. We only get her a dress for big occasions, like homecoming.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you allow your daughter to post pics of herself in dresses so this can hardly seem as shocking as you're making it out to be.

How many 17 year olds do you know not posting things? Just curious. I don’t know any.

It's not that she is posting it but OP seems to be clueless as to why they are doing it and why a new outfit might be needed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, you allow your daughter to post pics of herself in dresses so this can hardly seem as shocking as you're making it out to be.

+1

You don’t actually have older teen girls.

Not the point. Silly vain girls do this. OP knows what kind of daughter she has and she's feigning shock that a vain girl is obsessed with clothes? Wearing the same dress twice will never do. Has OP met her own teen daughter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stick to your guns. My daughter is a maximalist and I'm really trying to hold my ground. She just bought her fourth pair of jeans. I have one.

Ummm 4 pairs of jeans is not excessive.

1 pair of jeans is not enough for most people. And going without isn’t something to brag about. There’s no medal at the misery Olympics for wearing dirty jeans.

That was a very weird flex and definition of a "maximalist." I'm pretty minimal in my own wardrobe and yet I definitely own 4 pairs of jeans!