I work at a Target Superstore and I first saw a Bratz doll last week in the toy department. I was really shocked.
It is not your fault that your daughter lied to you! If you don't like the people she wanted to see, you probably have a very good reason. I ran around with really wild people when I was a teen, and I'm glad I could not have children, because I'd hate to have "it all come back to me"!
Your daughter could very easily be in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong people. I can't tell you what to do, but if it was me, I'd ground that little girl for at least a couple of weeks. I mean, no games, internet, or cell phone time! Your daughter needs to learn that if you don't want her to go somewhere, she had better not go, and she had better not lie to you about where she is going and who with. You are her mother, and she is lucky that she has a mother that cares enough about her to say "no"! She cannot possibly appreciate it now, but she will when she is older!
It was when I was skipping school and being around bad people that I started doing cocaine. There are many bad people who are looking to take advantage of teenage girls. Unfortuately, you cannot control what happens when she is at her father's, but you can be the parent when she is there with you. If I had a teenage daughter, I would not hesitate to let her spend some time in juvenile detention. That was the one thing that if my parents had gone there, that would have made an impression on me. They would never let the police become involved, and I would never listen to them, but I would have paid attention to being in "juvie". Maybe I would have finished school and attended college if I would have experienced that particular consequence.
