Is Age 9 the New Tween?

I love my daughter to pieces but seriously once she hit age 6 I started thinking “what on Earth happened to my precious little baby girl.” I think someone decided that it would be super funny if once my daughter hit age 6 that they exchanged her personality for one that closely fit mine at her age. Although, I swear I didn’t act the way she does at such a young age.

I recall not having an interest in boys and I also recall loving spending time with my Dad‘s side of the family and my grandparents as well as my aunt and uncle on my Mom‘s side of the family. I do not recall being snobby and rude to my loved ones at age 6 through age almost 9. My attitude seemed to have started around age 13.

Some days I have to ground my daughter by taking things away from her, such as her cell phone which really is only suppose to be used for contact with her Dad, but she is addicted to playing Tetris on it therefore it has become an extra privilege that quickly gets taken away upon bad behavior. My daughter loses her extra weekend movie nights in her room and sometimes she is sent to bed at the same time as her brothers if she hasn’t been listening well or has given a negative attitude all day long.

I am beginning to wonder if age 9 should be the new tween. I predict that tweens start getting hormonal, start liking boys or at least showing some interest in them, they start liking all the iCarly and Victorious type shows and yes now a days they even seem to love Justin Beiber or however you spell his name.

I wasn’t prepared for my daughter to become what I thought a tween was so close to age 9. I really had thought hoped that I had a few more years before all of this hormonal inbalance attitude would start.

I am now thinking that age 9 should be considered a tween because if it is not defined as that well then, I don’t know what to define my daughter as other than unique, independent, stubborn, carefree and beautiful.

Full Disclosure: I love my daughter dearly, but seriously this new found her is starting to get a little weird for me. Clearly I don’t want my daughter “defined” by anything other than who she is but seriously, I do think age 9 is the new tween for 2011.

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   Hey Jen says:

   July 12, 2011 at 11:58 am

   Oh dear, 9 is definitely the new tween. My girls actually started puberty around that time. The mouth and the eye rolling made me want to rip my hair out by the roots until I was bald.

   Several people told me that once they hit about 14, the hormones and angst should settle a little. My oldest is 14 now and she has gotten much better, but …there is still the whine and moodiness. Especially around period time!

   Good luck and take it day by day! Or hour by hour as the case sometimes may be!
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   blueviolet @ A Nut in a Nutshell says:

   July 12, 2011 at 2:23 pm

   They really can push our buttons, can’t they? It’s so frustrating during those years!
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   Bonnie Squires says:

   July 12, 2011 at 8:47 pm

   Hi

   I know what you mean. We have 8 kids.
   4 girls and 4 boys. But with me it seems
   like i’m going threw it with our 11 year
   old son.

   Our 14 year old daughter is going threw
   this stage to at 9 she roll her eyes and
   do different things that would annoy me to
   know ends. The biggest thing is her and her 16 yr
   old sister when they was little they did ever thing
   together now they are so different and i’m all
   ways hearing mom she got my shirt or she change the
   tv or its mine not heirs.

   Gosh what happen to when sisters would share ever thing?

   But I can say our 14 year old has grown up allot of the summer
   parents think they aren’t getting threw to them and bang some
   thing clicks. She tag me in a note she wrote on Face book and
   I was so proud because she was finally understanding what I was
   telling her.

   Have a great day
   Bonnie Squires