You have every right to stop anything, at any time, jade. Both my children know that.

Thank you for your kind reply, and I would very much hope that we are still friends. x

And yes, it is a quaint old fashioned story, but it is the story of how I grew up. My parents were always outside to meet me, or my friend's parents were. We were not pulled away from our parents, from our families, in the same way that young people are now, told they must leave home by 16/17..made to feel weird if they don't..We were simply happy to be having fun...and dancing at the disco was exactly that, with a bit of kissing maybe, if you went there with your boyfriend.

Most lads were well behaved, but there was always the chancer who'd put his hands on your bottom whilst you were dancing. You simply moved them up to your waist..and if he put them down again, you walked away, back to your friends.

My friend's daughter had her drink spiked a few years back, she suddenly couldn't stand up. Luckily, her friends were close by, realised what had happened and surrounded her immediately, getting her home as fast as they could.   It affected the young girl deeply and she ended up seeing a psychiatrist...She was no shrinking violet, but she realised how vulnerable she was and that frightened her. She's fine now, married, running a pub...

But yes, times have changed a great deal, because that just never happened back then.



Emma, Bruce also mentioned about the young girl whose mother dressed her up as a little adult, put her on the Beauty Pageant Circle...

Well take a look at what Katie Price (Jordan) did to her 2 year old the other day..and those photos went on the internet, via Facebook.

Jordan's daughter

her ex-husband, quite rightly was utterly shocked.

Jordan is seen as some kind of weird 'heroine' by many young girls these days, who copy her every look, her every move...Personally, that frightens the shite out me, as does that photo of her little girl. I worry about her future, I really do.