I am looking for a poem or song about young girls (8-12) saying they're growing up too fast?
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little girls, near in teens, seem to grow too fast.\nwhile grown -ups seek for young age, youngster's search for old.\nwhen they do grow old, too late, the time's past.\nso young, seeming old but still bold.\nthough they look like it, they don't act like it,\nand the pareants don't like it one bit.\nso let htis be a lesson to you, that you may heed this, too.\n\n(yeah, that sucked. i composed it on the spot. figures.)
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Depends on how old your sister is I guess.  About 3 or 3.5.  Far too much repetition if it is a poem.  The language needs to be tightened up.  By the end the reader is thinking, "When will this be over?"  Much shorter would be much more effective and more powerful.
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I asked this question too, a while ago.  I was looking for the "old fashioned" diary/ journal (pen & paper) but everyone responded with blogs.\n\nAnyway, I have a diary, the same one since I was in about 4th grade.  It's fun to go back and see all the silly things I wrote about from then on.  It shows how you have changed/ matured/ stayed the same/ developed.  I haven't written in it for years.  I wish I would but I never make time.  Maybe I'll try tonight.  Thanks for the reminder.
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School Days\n(When We Were a Couple of Kids)\n\n\nNothing to do, Nellie Darling,\nOh, there's nothing to do, you say,\nLet's take a trip\nOn the Memory Ship,\nAnd sail back to the good old days.\nSail to the old village schoolhouse,\nAnchor outside the school door,\nLook in and see,\nThere's you and there's me,\nA couple of kids once more.\n\nSchool days, school days,\nDear old golden rule days.\n'Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic,\nTaught to the tune of a hick'ry stick.\nYou were my queen in calico,\nI was your bashful barefoot beau,\nAnd you wrote on my slate,\n'I love you, Joe,'\nWhen we were a couple of kids.\n\nSchool days, school days,\nDear old golden rule days.\n'Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic,\nTaught to the tune of a hick'ry stick.\nI was your queen in calico,\nYou were my bashful barefoot beau,\nAnd I wrote on your slate,\n'I love you, Joe,'\nWhen we were a couple of kids.\n\n'Member the hill, Nellie Darling,\nAnd the oak tree that grew on its brow?\nThey've built forty stories\nUpon that old hill,\nAnd the oak's an old chestnut now.\n'Member the meadows so green, dear,\nSo fragrant with clover and maize,\nInto new city lots\nAnd apartment block plots,\nThey've torn them up since those days.\n\nSchool days, school days,\nDear old golden rule days.\n'Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic,\nTaught to the tune of a hick'ry stick.\nYou were my queen in calico,\nI was your bashful barefoot beau,\nAnd you wrote on my slate,\n'I love you, Joe,'\nWhen we were a couple of kids.\n\nSchool days, school days,\nDear old golden rule days.\n'Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic,\nTaught to the tune of a hick'ry stick.\nI was your queen in calico,\nYou were my bashful barefoot beau,\nAnd I wrote on your slate,\n'I love you, Joe,'\nWhen we were a couple of kids.\n\nhttp://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiSCHLDAYS;ttSCHLDAYS.html
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I like the poem entitled Family by Mark Spencer.  You can find it at  http://www.dreamersreality.com/poems/read/11910/Mark_Spencer/Family/Family/.  Also, there is a poem called The Family Castle by Nancy Rakovszky you can find at netpoets.com.  Best of luck.
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christianteens.com referring to ur age
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On my own by Whitney Houston, the lyrics sound convincing \nwiser now, Strong enough, not the foolish girl u used to know, isn't that sound real?
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Found it! Hope this helps!\nhttp://www.pickens.k12.sc.us/hesteachers/laboonac/Web%20Pages/poems%20for%20parents.htm
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it is called "at 17" by Janice Ian.  I may spelled Janice wrong...Great Great song...depressingly true!
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try http://www.lyricsandsongs.com
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Here you go:\n\nFrom pigtails to wedding veils\nFrom pinafores to lace\nAnd in between are the special years\nTime never can erase\n\nFrom play toys to college boys\nFrom little girl to wife\nAnd in between are the special years\nYou remember all of your life\n\nThe special years are filled \nWith sweet promises and pain\nBut love will never taste \nQuite so wonderful again\n\nSo slow up, don't rush to grow up\nYou'll be a woman before long\nSo stay awhile in the special years\nTheir magic will soon be gone\n\nJust stay awhile in the special years\nTheir magic - will soon be gone..
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When You Were Young\n\n\nYou said bearing your heartache\nWaiting on some beautiful boy to\nTo save you from your old ways\nYou play forgiveness\nWatch me now, here he comes\n\nHe doesn’t look a thing like Jesus\nBut he talks like a gentleman\nLike you imagine when you were young\n\nCan we climb this mountain I don’t know\nHigh enough then ever before her\nNo, we can make it if we take it slow\nLet’s take it easy, easy now, watch it go\n\nWe’re burning down the highway skyline\nBack on a hurricane that started turning\nWhen you were young\nWhen you were young\n\nAnd sometimes you close your eyes\nand see a place where you used to live\nWhen you were young\n\nThey say the devils water it ain’t so sweet\nYou don’t have to drink right now\nBut you can tip your feet\nEvery once and a little while\n\nYou said bearing your heartache\nWaiting on some beautiful boy to\nTo save you from your old ways\nYou play forgiveness\nWatch me now, here he comes\n\nHe doesn’t look a thing like Jesus\nBut he talks like a gentleman\nLike you imagine when you were young\n\n(he talks like a gentleman\nLike you imagine) when you were young\n\nI said\nHe doesn’t look a thing like Jesus\nHe doesn’t look a thing like Jesus\n\nBut more than you’ll ever know
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u can try www.lovingyou.com. i think u can find good poems there
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you can go on netpoets.com they have some good poems on there and I have a couple on there also
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This song is so true. I done been through this exact same thing. I wish this song was out before i did what i did. Young females need to listen to the song and read the lyrics. This song will help anyone through this problem. Thanks for the help with the lyrics.
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Patience is kindness.\nYour patience,\nyour kindness,\nis all too much for me.\nI am in a haze of shame\nas I stumble and fall.\nYou laugh at my clumsy mistakes\nbut always help me get up again.\nOne day,\nwhen I grow up,\nI wanna be just like you.\nYou and your unwavering patience.\n\nwriting poems are HARD!!!! >o<
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I agree that <http://www.100words.net/entry/read_member_batch.cfm?entry_member=Laura%20A%20Hill&entry_batch=November&entry_year=2003> is the only site that talks about this poem.  Don't try pinkmonkey.com and the other sites.  I couldn't find the poem comments in their results.