Would You Tattle On A Neighbor’s Kid?

As a woman who does not have children, I find that I often find myself observing the antics of teenage girls and their relationships with their parents.

One of my favorite teenage stories is the one in which my neighbor’s daughter blurts out to her friends: “If my mother were Martha Stewart, I’d know how to cook.”

I really felt like running over there and saying:

“Wait, you mean to tell me you know how to text your girlfriends or get a video blog uploaded, but you don’t know how to look up one of Martha’s recipes and cook a meal??”

I know that you parents out there will tell me that’s how 15-year-old girls act and speak…and that I should shut it.

But it’s all fascinating to me…until today, when I happened by this girl, hanging — out in a vacant park, with some boy I’d never seen before.

At first it all looked very innocent: they were playing basketball…but then, and I’m guessing they did not see me, (kind of hard with an 80lb Lab at the end of my wrist.)…

…the two of them skipped into the woods behind the park and began to smooch.

I’m not sure what shocked me…the fact that I’ve known her since she was 6 and now suddenly she is 15?

That she chose such a seamy location for her secret tryst? That it was secret at all? Or that I’m sure her parents would not approve.

I probably will not say anything…but it did cross my mind. Is that wrong?

All I know is what would happen to me if my parents had found out.