Advice: The big "talk"
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Advice: The big "talk"
| Sun, 02-18-2007 - 7:28am |
Okay, I need advice on when people started or will start to have the big "talk" with their kids.
My oldest is going to be 9 next week. I have some friends telling me they already had this talk with their children at this age. She just seems so young to me. She still plays house, school and dolls with her little sister. IMO, telling her about sex is going to take some innocence away from her. But, am I sheltering her too much?
She knows about periods and body hair development. She already has little breats "bumps" (as she likes to call "em).
Agghhh..I really thought I had until she was 12 to have this talk like my mother did.
What is everyone's opinion?

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"To me, dressing kids like kids simply means not like an adult or an adult wannabe."
That, as a definition of how to dress kids, makes absolutely no sense to me. Most adults around here wear jeans or casual khakis, t-shirts (long or short depending on the weather and usually with no logos) and/or sweaters. Most kids wear... jeans or casual khakis, t-shirts (long or short depending on the weather and usually with no logos) and/or sweaters. Is this wrong? Are kids being dressed as "adult wannabes" or too much like adults? Exactly what should kids wear instead of jeans, t-shirts etc.? Should kids be banned from wearing jeans because adults wear jeans?
To me, trying to say that kids should not be dressed like adults leads to far more complex questions than simply saying that kids should be dressed comfortably, practically and appropriately with regard to weather conditions. It seems to me that you are really trying to say that girls shouldn't dress like a certain faction of teens/young adults (e.g. in outfits most appropriate for MTV videos), but then those kinds of outfits have very little to do with how most adults in general dress themselves.
Edited 2/24/2007 12:02 pm ET by sabinamarianne
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