rw-Hep meez, the puberty fairy might be coming

rwbeagles

I don't want to shock my prude of a daughter...she is 8 years old in mind still if not in teeth LOL.

They know a lot more than you think they do.

Deb W.

You'd think so Deb, but she really...really doesn't. You can tell when kids know things, usually by them reacting to something they shouldn't know anything about...and that just doesn't happen. I do need to chat with her this week tho...she will be fascinated I know because she is very interested in "how" things work with bodies of animals and people both.

I better start assembling some notes. Anytime I broached the topic earlier she shut down a bit and you know when they do that they are not ready...they have to be ready, mentally or it will go over their heads and be like you never said anything...it's a tightrope walk and all about timing.

When I started, I was working at my first animal shelter,and I was totally unaware other than thinking I felt "sick to my stomach".  Apparently others were aware before I was.  All the women in the treatment room started talking about their time of the month and I was grossed out, so I left.  Only to discover I was now one of them. 

Please, please, please when she does get hers, don't let your husband say "So, I hear you're a woman now." 

miranadobe

Please, please, please when she does get hers, don't let your husband say "So, I hear you're a woman now."

Or anyone else for that matter!!!

I think the worst I heard was a friend of mine's parents threw her a PARTY....just family including HER BROTHER....they got a, ready for this...RED VELVET CAKE...with RED ROSES on it. *omg*

No...he will know of course, and be there if I am not for any issues or questions for her, but it will not be a big deal...just an open communication moment. LOL. I will stop him from busting into any version of "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"...by any means necessary.

3girls

miranadobe

Please, please, please when she does get hers, don't let your husband say "So, I hear you're a woman now."

 

Or anyone else for that matter!!!

x 3!  In fact any comment along these lines from anyone (male or female) is generally to be avoided!  I wish Family would remember that this is one milestone we don't like to be congratulated for....  I know I was hoping like he** that the Thing would pass and No-one Would Notice.  If someone had drawn attention to it, it would have just increased my paranoia by about 1000!

Chuffy

I wish Family would remember that this is one milestone we don't like to be congratulated for.... 

chelsea_b

You'd think I'd have had an easy time of it...

No such thing for us laydeez methinks!  but to learn that at the tender age of 10 is HARD - poor you!

chelsea_b

Seriously... I was 10,

Me too. Not much overt attention tho...but a lot of fear of what the HECK was going on....on my part. Mom hadn't thought to broach that topic yet LOL.

I was 9...I called my mom at work and said, very calmly "um, mom. I think my butt is bleeding."  My mom came home, dropped off a PAMPHLET and went back to work...PLEASE, don't do that to your little girl...it screwed me up BIG TIME!

omg..wow. Nope. LOL we talked about it today...went actually...very well. She is very curious. Scientific mind on that one...lol.

Chuffy

3girls

miranadobe

Please, please, please when she does get hers, don't let your husband say "So, I hear you're a woman now."

 

Or anyone else for that matter!!!

x 3!  In fact any comment along these lines from anyone (male or female) is generally to be avoided! 

I simply cannot fathom the red velvet cake with red roses.  I realize some families build up to the moment where some little girls are anxious for it, but not me/mine.  A year or two before, I got a training bra in my Christmas stocking... my family is full of jokesters... or something.

 My niece is 11 and has known about periods for... well, forever.  I think sis said she'd seen her change her pad in the bathroom when she was quite little, and when she asked about it she got a reply along the lines of: "well, ladies bleed from down below occasionally.  It's a nuisance but it's nothing to worry about."  That was it, pretty much.  Answers just kind of gradually evolved into more detailed explanations as she got older.

I was 10 and I got *the talk* from my grandmother who said "you'll have to be very careful around men now because you could have a baby any time."  And that's all she said.  No explanation about how this would eventually occur.  I spent all that year thinking any morning I'd find a baby in my bookbag. My younger sister got *the talk* from my mom who just tossed her a pamphlet and said "this is what's going to happen and if it ever doesn't happen, you had better by doG tell me." So my sister said "would this  be a good time then to tell you it hasn't happened?" Still, we grew up to be fairly normal.

Joyce