To find counseling resources for youth, you can check with your insurance provider, primary care physician or your daughter's school counselor may have some resources. Additional supports for her may be very helpful and this may provide a support to you as the parent in helping to understand what your daughter needs in terms of information and guidance regarding healthy and safe behaviors.Additionally if you pursue counseling for your daughter, this therapist may feel that this is a reportable incident and you can work with the therapist through this process. She may also be facing difficulties at school seeing the boy there or even with potential witnesses on the bus. This can provide her the opportunity to share more about what happened and how she is impacted by this event. You may also want to find out more about the type of supervision provided on your daughter’s school bus.Ĭonsider having your daughter see a counselor as well.
She will benefit from your acknowledgment of how frightening the experience must have been for her, as well as your support and comfort. It must have been very scary for her to feel trapped by the other child’s physical force. It seems that your daughter started out playing this game, possibly knowing that it was forbidden territory, but then quickly found herself way out of her depth. Really from the age of 10 a child should have their own bed, ideally bedroom and not sleeping with their parent(s).The behaviors you described are very concerning. “Do you only have one bedroom in the apartment? If that is the case then you should be in single beds, albeit it the same room. He wrote: “The initial reaction is, WHY do you need to sleep in the same bed with your 16 year old son in YOUR home, does he have medical issues? One man, Christopher Richards, tried to give her the benefit of doubt and wondered whether he had medical issues which call for her to sleep in the same bed as him. More than one person questioned why she felt the need to sleep next to her teenage son at all, let alone why she would do it naked. She wrote: “Is it wrong for me (a mother) to sleep naked with my 16 year old son?”īut if she was seeking reassurance, she didn’t find it there. The woman posted the question anonymously on Q&A website Quora, seemingly begging other parents for advice on whether she should stop. A mother who claims to still sleep naked next to her 16-year-old son has posted a plea online asking whether it’s normal – and it led to quite the debate.