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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"Exactly like all the other kids"? Think back, and you'll remember how it really was. There's no such thing as "all the other kids". There are cliques: goth, emo, jock, metal, hippie... I forgot all their current titles.
I'm just trying to limit the degree to which my kids get all involved in the costume aspect of whichever clique or cliques they're currently dying to fit into. I'm trying to help them achieve some sort of balance in their lives by having more to concern themselves with than their physical appearance. Believe me, there are some kids I know who are obsessed with what's on their backs and in their closets. And my particular kids seem to go for the "Hoochie Mama" version of their clique du jour.
I know I can't really fight it head on, but I can discourage it, through withholding of comments and a tight rein on my plastic ;-)
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