Lina is a 4yr in an 8yr body. She has begun puberty over the last yr and now is in a bra. She has just begun to act like a 4-5yr old and now this. I am worried about the whole puberty thing since she is delayed. I am hoping that since she has followed me everywhere and I mean everywhere that when the rest starts, hair, menses, hormones going nuts I don't know if I'm ready for that. I don't know what I'm going to do. All my kids were normal, worrying about my GD and what we are getting ready to go thru is beginning to scare me.
Got any advice or ideas? The one that I really liked when my kids were growing up was the lock them in the closet until they were 30! LOL
puberty is very scary for me also , my son is 12 and started at 10 , i just go with the flow and explain things as they come up
My kids were the queens of asking questions about sex while I was driving and they were in the back seat. Occasionally their questions nearly made me drive off the road! (kidding, menatlly though...man the stuff kids think up or hear at school!) My favorite was the teacher my oldest had in high school who was supposed to be teaching them health and instead of explaining how you could get AIDS he told them it was caused by GLOBAL WARMING! My kids might be intellectually disabled but we had a family friend w/AIDS so they knew a lot more than a lot of kids might. Not sure who puberty is harder on us or them! LOL The closet is not such a bad idea! There are so many things out there that we want to protect them from, unfortunately we'd have to let them out of the closet eventually! LOL
i hate the "fun" that you are in for for you, i am sure it would be difficult for me to take.
i was "typical" and never did get an answer as to why, but i was 11 yrs old in a b cup, and began menstrating. but luckily my cup size didnt grow at a scary rate after that, though i was a d cup by sophmore year, but only a dd now ;)
My son is 19 and on a toddler/pre-school level and I pretty much explain on that level to him-
The biggest problem is that she is cognitively 4 maybe 5 so she hasn't asked any questions yet and I don't know if she will. She has followed me and knows kinda what a period is. I told her that I use pads when she asked about them but she could only understand that I wear diapers sometimes. She has never asked me why. She is asking a lot of questions but they aren't about her body, they are about everything else she sees even if we've been over the same thing 100 times. I have gotten her to stay in the bedroom with the door closed to change. We used to let her run around naked after her bath, because with a pellet stove the bedrooms were cool not cold but the livingroom was real warm. Now I am telling her that she is becoming a big girl like me and sister and now she needs to get dressed in the room with the door closed.
Funny story: A couple of days after Lina got her bras my BIL, her favorite Great Uncle came for a visit. Lina was wearing her new bra for the first time and was really excited. He sat at the table and was talking to DH when she came running out of the room when she heard his voice, pulling her shirt up to her chin and telling him "look, I big girl. I got one just like Grandma! See!" BIL gets embarassed extremely easy. DH said his face turned beet red, he couldn't speak, and his eyes were the size of saucers. DH was trying to tell her to pull her shirt down not everyone wanted to see her bra, he said it wasn't easy because he was laughing so hard. I wasn't home when this happened and after DH told me it took me a while to stop laughing.
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- gma12.1
on Aug. 24, 2012 at 11:23 PM