Darling Daughter

Darling Daughter

Reflecting...

The day she

was born

the perfect name?

We were torn

Ribbons

and lace

with an

angel’s face

sugar and spice

and everything nice...

OH REALLY?

Fast forward

threw the "tweens"

right into the

terrible teens!

The make-up

and hair

the fashion

despair

hormones and

mood swings

PMS and other

fun things

the looks and

the attitude

not an ounce

of gratitude

boyfriends

and curfew

doing things

they shouldn’t do

piercings and

tattoos on their bum

revealing clothes

her friends have some

 

school projects

and finals

my sanity

spirals

dear, oh dear

the Senior year

so full of cheer

graduation pictures

and supplies

watch how the

money flies

Senior skip day

and the alibi’s

Then comes the day

she walks across the stage

when the chaos is done

made it threw the first one...

Sandra Ferrara Gentry 2007

Reviews

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

I did enjoy!
It makes me feel good and it is comical in ways but so loving and so worth all the 'bad things' lol
I love this .. and so glad she made it through graduation..this is one for her to keep for her children to read should she have any.. love it , Sandra:)

Chloe
xoxo

[Mystic Dreams]

The circle of life comes around and bites us all in the butt! Starting off precious angels to grow in to troubling teens...so that's what I've got to look forward to! Yikes!

Great flow, the rhymn is almost flawless too.

Fantastic

Mystic

[Spoken]

I don't have a dtr but I have a 3 yr old and I dreed the terrrible teen years every day! I think with girls you do have to worry more because of the sex driven boys trying to take advantage, pregnancy risks... the fathers not sticking around, revealing clothes.. again with boys there's no concern there. PMS and teenage hormones would cause anyones sanity to snap, I dunno if I could handle it. Thank God I have a boy!! But at least you can breath a sigh of releif that the high school years are over! You've captured a parents choatic tribulations wonderfully!

[V. K. Harris]

Perfect, I been there with one, going through it with one now, then 1 to go later. God help me. Excellent write.

[Ladysue]

Sandra this captured the life of us parents brilliantly. It speaks so much truth. It made me chuckle though.
Thanks for sharing.

[James Mayfield]

I'm already there and I am soon to have a step-daughter with whom I can go through it all over again. Congratulations and commiserations. You wrote this rather well, my only problem would be the giant font size. Thanks for sharing.

[Yaooooooo]

Sweet, my only sugestion is maybe you should make the font accending. Start with some really small font to show the new born or her being small and as you progress through the story make it a little larger to show her growing.
Just an idea, i like it, it was fun to read, i was hoping that the last part was her getting marry.
Maybe that would of put a better ending to the story but you fine....
Thanks for the read and thanks for the request...
Hope to read more from you in the future, just keep sending the request...
One!

[Autumn Dawn Gorny]

Oh boy I got 5 more years before my daughter hits those teen years.

[Damien Dsoul]

The trails and tribulations of raising a child, especially a girl. The narrative moves so effortlessly from the happy times of childbirth, the growing up days to the pains of watching her turn into a teen ... very lovely it pains its picture.

[Nathan Thompson]

Typical teenager, we've all been there (instead of us guys of course) very observant Fawlks. do you think you could write one for the guys as well?

[Forest Green]

The scrambles of growing up; troubling in a way, yet gratifying in the end.

And where to go from here...

Thanks for the insight into your last 18 years...:)

FG