OMG Boobs!

Yesterday we went to my sons' new school to get him all registered now that winter break is over. He is in 5th grade, still elementary school everywhere we've ever lived. Here, it's middle school. This morning his sister and I dropped him off right after school started so there wouldn't be as much chaos. He got his schedule and other paperwork, another boy in his class came to the office to get him and he was off.

I'm dying.

He tries so hard to be all grown up, play the big kid video games (I refuse to let him play M games and we do our best to make sure other games are appropriate, just FYI), etc. Sometimes I wish he were more into sports and video games weren't such an issue, not that I would ever want him to change, he is who he is. He does want to get into basketball so we are going to look into that. When I look at him he's still so little and innocent. If he heard me say that he'd be so pissed.

Yesterday I found some "questionable" youtube history in our computer and was furious. I've always trusted him to an extent, I'm always kinda eyes and ears open while he's playing games or on the computer. He generally watches other people playing Minecraft or other video games to figure out how to do things. I'll never understand it. In "my day" we just played the damn game until we figured it out. But this was something about Rihanna topless. Seriously, why Rihanna? If I wanted to check out boobs, i'd look up a VS model or something. I'm not her biggest fan. Don't hate, I get it, she's "talented" whatev. I'm not a guy. I'll never understand it.

It's just boobs but it's also, OMG boobs!

He's 10, he's curious. I get that. I remember being around that age and seein the chicks in lingerie in the JC Penney catalog and being like, I wanna look like that when I grow up (HA!) But really, how did he grow up SO fast? I think of 10 and I think of kids still playing with toys, playing night games like we did, just being KIDS. Now they all have freaking iPhones and all this grown up shit I never imagined having until I was a GROWN up. I don't even have an iPhone!

Anyway, I immediately made Bryan adjust all the parental settings and on his tablet he got for Christmas we restricted a bunch of stuff. I'm totally inadequate in handling these types of situations. I always said i'd be the open parent who would be willing to talk about anything and be comfortable about it so my kids would talk to ME and trust me to tell me what they were really doing. Be a cool Mom but they'd also know I meant business. I could never really talk to my parents and it bugged me. My teenage years were also a major shit storm. Now he asks me questions about sex or why I was a young parent and I cringe and tell him "when you're older."

Fail.

Boobs aside, this whole middle school situation makes me uneasy. The kid has some ADHD issues and I can't even get him to stop talking and pay attention or sit still at the dinner table, let alone make it to a class on time. From what I understand the 5th grade is "contained" and I don't think it's like going from period to period except for lunch, choir, and computers. I only hope he won't be talking about Rihanna's boobs in class. That'd be awkward parent teacher conference.