On 4/10/10 10:44 AM, "Karen C - Calif" wrote:

Gillian Murray wrote:

Don't worry... I have met the child and heaven help any idiot hormonal
male teen who steps over the bounds.

She is delightful, but I think probably knows full well what is and
isn't acceptable.


What Gill said.

#1, at that age, boys still have some amount of cooties.

#2, if anyone tries anything, she'll deck him

#3, if she's really offended, she'll take her hockey stick to school
Monday and turn him into a popsicle.

LOL - kind of depends. But, I'm sure we all have plenty of well-based
faith that "lil' elise" can handle herself quite well. Watching this girl
of similar size and likely skill playing on the similar boys team at
nationals yesterday made me think of her. Then a dad was talking to me -
same situation as Elise - big 11 yr old - 5'3" when she was 10! Played with
the boys til last year, switched to a girls team - played same age group as
Elise, and he said what was interesting that while she liked playing with
the boys, now that she's 11 - she felt more girlish comaraderie playing with
them. That the boys - well - the cooties kind of thing - even as a team
mate - cool being a player - but...

OTOH - in about 2 years, IMHE, we start to see some of the girls on the
hockey teams wearing eye make-up or lipstick. Cracks me up. On my women's
team we had a 16 yr old trying to play with our rec team - and finally we
told her "if you're coming to play hockey with your make-up on, then it's
not about the game. " OTOH - we've seen guys definitely looking at those
pouty red lips (needless to say that young lady didn't make any travel
teams).

Not sure about carrying the hockey sticks in school? Don't think it's
allowed here - they have to leave them locked up somewhere in the school.

ellice