My daughter is almost 12. I have not told her what I do and really don't want to yet.
Me, her dad (my husband) and my daughter have a VERY open and honest relationship. We consider ourselves to be sexually liberated and extend that perspective to our daughter as she matures. She obviously takes after us because she is very open about her budding sexuality.
Nevertheless, we feel she is too young to handle that information about her own mother in a mature manner. We don't want her taking it as a sign that she can be promiscuous.
As it is, without her knowing a thing, she has claimed she wants to be a stripper and she practices her moves around the house all the time! Me and my husband look at each other like, oh SH**!!!
Of course, a lot of this has come from her watching Britney and Christina on TV and young girls are influenced by their open sexualiity as well (which I think is fine for the most part).
I figured I would wait until she is older than tell her...but we hate not telling her the truth. Another thing is, my family can never know what I do, because they are very religious and judgemental. I feel it would be wrong to entrust my daughter with information she would be obliged to keep "secret" from her grandparents.
What have any of you done in this situation?



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