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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP with the 13 year old. She is going to sleep away camp this summer. I guess I never thought about that as an issue. Oops.

But I am actually not really concerned about that. I am more concerned about the sleepover with the "girlfriend" and the potential for sexual situations and the emotional fallout from that for my DD in particular. As I said, she is already struggling with self esteem issues and depression. She is not emotionally ready in any way for a sexual relationship and the potential fallout from a break up in such a relationship.

I am more wondering in an intellectual way if I have any obligation to communicate with the parents of girls who invite her for sleepovers or she wants to invite. I mean platonic friends, not girlfriends.

To PP, I honestly don't know how common this is. It sure shocked the bejeebers out of me! Although I know that the high school has gay student organizations, so clearly it wasn't that far off. But in DD's grade, I know of 3 (DD, her girlfriend, and another friend). And the therapist and the school counselor both indicated to me that this is not an uncommon age for kids to start coming out, but that for some of these kids it is a persona/role playing exercise vs. a true sexual preference. And the kids don't know themselves if it is "real" or not.[/quote]

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