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Write to my 16-year-old daughter

Dear daughter, sooner or later, you will have to leave your parents, leave your mentors and friends, and will encounter a variety of temptations. At this time, remember to play your wisdom, abandon the momentary interests and vanity, tolerate a moment of intolerance, and think about the consequences of doing or not doing

By Holly D SalterPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
Write to my 16-year-old daughter
Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash

  16 years old is the most beautiful time in life. Whenever I touch your warm hands, kiss your face through the skin of the red, the heart will always give birth to many inexplicable touched, if I still have a variety of life fondness, then you are the continuation of my life. You are a precious gift from God to me, after several twists and turns I finally kept you, a few hints of satisfaction, a few hints of pain, sometimes suddenly woke up at night, looking at the sleeping daughter, and thought, such a person can never be hurt, I am willing to use their lives to accompany you for life, every moment can protect you, care for you.

  However, I only have an ordinary physical body, an ordinary mother, how can I shield myself from the blistering winds blowing in all directions? But as a person who has been around for decades, my stumbling life has given me a little taste of life, and even if I can't shield myself from all the storms when harm comes, I can play a cushioning role, and it's not in vain to be a mother's heart. Now, my daughter, I want to say to you gently.

  Don't use your wisdom in the wrong place.

  Dear daughter, your intelligence is obvious to all, but, my dear, you must not show off in this way, arrogance and self-importance will make you lose many friends, and you will be lonely and pain.

  Smart kids have personalities, and yours is especially outstanding. If you are sure of something, ten cows can't pull you back. This will not stop until you hit the south wall of obstinacy, with the right direction may be the basis for success, and once used in the wrong place, very easy to slide into the abyss. So, my daughter, you must look at the road under your feet and walk straight ahead, one step at a time.

  Dear daughter, sooner or later, you will have to leave your parents, your mentors, and friends, and you will encounter all kinds of temptations. At this time, remember to play your wisdom, abandon the momentary interests and vanity, tolerate a moment of intolerance, and think about the consequences of doing or not doing. Life is life, always have to do something, for the community, and for the family to do their part, the harvest will be full of inner peace, fullness, and comfort. On the contrary, make something against society and family, even if you only do one wrong thing in your life, your conscience will be devoured. Understand this, daughter, what to do will not make the wrong choice.

  Don't get involved in love too early

  I know you are an understanding and sensitive girl, and at 16 you are in your flowering and rainy season when your love life is not yet open. But, my daughter, art is art, after all, it is not a realistic reproduction of real life. If you dive in head first or even fantasize about an emotional earthquake of nothingness, then you are wrong and very wrong.

  Love is something that looks good and does not necessarily taste good, and it's best to hang it up and admire it from afar.

  It's not too much to say that you are a white and clear white paper, even if you gently point a spot on it, it will make your heart surge with a wave of shock. Unlike the thick ink-splashed painting, one more or less can not see any change, for the pure you, any stroke is a keystroke, a stroke that can not be erased, along with the entire life of a stroke. And this stroke may be in your inadvertent, perhaps because of curiosity and fun and casually painted on. But, unlike your learning to write, the words are bad, the eraser can be erased, and what is painted on the mind is stronger and more painful than the scars branded on the body. Daughter, mommy wants your first stroke to draw beautiful, poetic, and rhyming.

  Whenever you will it's so-and-so male stars how handsome, so-and-so male classmates how cool, my face shows the same delight as yours, and my mouth makes the same exclamation as yours. But, daughter, you don't know how worried I am in my heart. I can't deny other good boys just because you are a girl, and I can't let your young mind be filled with the glory of the opposite sex too soon. This is probably the time to be a mother with wisdom and knowledge to solve your doubts, but I, am not only shallow but also clumsy, I am afraid that the guidance is not clear to make you resentful and rebellious. So, daughter, when you are older and have your wit and knowledge, then you can get involved in love, okay?

  There is no such thing as loving and being loved for no reason, even in the face of parents, friends, and lovers. If you understand this, daughter, you will not complain because you get less, but you will get real happiness when you are busy giving constantly, and this is the highest reward you can give to me.

  However, today, after the painful ordeal that my mother was looking forward to the return of my daughter, your dismissive attitude was especially hurtful to me. There is a heart-wrenching pain in my heart, not because of your behavior, but because your kind of thinking makes me worry. I don't blame you for your impulsiveness today, I feel scared now that I think about it, but I hope you've been inspired by this incident. You told me once that you wrote an essay and moved, and today mom has moved herself the same way.

  Daughter, there's a lot more I want to say, but I feel like talking about it because I know that as you get older, you'll slowly understand, perhaps more than I do.

  Mom will always love you, no matter when or where, mom is always by your side to support you.

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