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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I already acknowledged somewhere that to me part of this is a matter of teaching basic, basic aesthetics to the poor kid. However, the pink shoes are also a matter of aping adult mores and styles and I do not like that.
BTW, as an aside, I showed dd the list of the shoes I did not like. She is 9th grade, 14 years old, and she told me that no girls her age would wear heels, except "really, really, really, really cheapo people." As for the pink ones, she explained to me that anyone wearing those would simply look a fool. The flat musketeer boots she recognized as something the more ditzy girls might wear to a school dance.
*nodding*
(don't get your hopes up, this probably won't happen again! lol)
My dd dated a boy who fell into the goth category. He and his friends seemed to believe that they were somehow "deeper" than the rest of the kids. My dd didn't date him for very long, she found him to be quite a downer, lol.
Robin
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