I suspect that most all teenage girls are teenage guy magnets... guitar
or no. Your proper concerns come along with the "father" designation.
Be of good cheer. You will likely both survive this stage.
Chuck Norcutt
(whose teenage guy magnet is now 38 years old,
happily married and the mother of two)
On 7/18/2011 11:34 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
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> DD#1 (14yo, Dear Daughter #1) has expressed interest in playing the bass
> guitar. Makes sense, both girls have been learning and playing music since
> before they started kindegarten. For the past couple of years she's been
> playing the guitar, but that's not been her first love. The bass has really
> intrigued her. Opportunity and finances have been the major issue preventing
> it, though. But now she has opportunity, and the finances were such that we
> could finally jump.
>
> So, we asked her how much money she had saved up (which was about 1/2 the
> cost of a decent low-cost one) and told her that we'll loan her the rest of
> the money for the guitar and we'd pay for the bag, strap, warranty and
> taxes. We want her to earn the money for it herself because she'll probably
> take better care of it, play it more (which isn't an issue for our girls as
> they are rock-and-roll wannabes, anyway), and she can sell/trade/upgrade
> without parental abuse.
>
> That was on Saturday. On Sunday, she was already playing in church. Her
> fingers will be bloodied stumps by next Sunday, I suspect. :)
>
> It's not that the girls weren't popular before, but there must be something
> about a drum or guitar-playing teenage girl that is a guy magnet. Not sure
> that this will end well...
>
> AG (card carrying member of the FOOD Group) Schnozz
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