Help. My 10 year old DD is turning into a teenage monster

keelykat

This will probably sound silly-but im really glad to get my teenage years out of the way! (now 23) i hated being a teenager, i hated being all over the place emotionaly etc.. i hated being awkard and wondering who else had started their periods.... im very glad to be comfortable with my body now and to relax!

I couldnt get the hang of tampons untill id had sex, after that i was fine. so towels/pads it was for quite a few years! I cant say i like pads-made me feel self concious and was always worrying that people would know i was wearing one lol.

luckily most of the girls in my year at school/group i hung around with developed around the same time as myself, so that reasured me.... i wasnt the last to get my period, but i admit i didnt get proper curves untill i left school at 16-but looking back i think doing a lot of dance and being too slim affected this. i put on a bit of weight at college and suddenly i had lovely curvy hips etc!

i remember hair/breast buds/smelly armpits started about a year or two before the periods...i had an arguement with my mom over shaving my legs!

this is one thing ill dread about being a mom! puberty!

keely.

jackieb

What do you other mum's do about hair removal? I know she's only young but she really does need to defuzz her armpits. I bought this for my daughter. It's probably more expensive that some of the others, but it seems safer and easier for her to use. I just hang it up in the shower and she just wets it and uses it whenever she needs to. I don't tell her to use it on her legs but I know she does! http://www.ciao.co.uk/Wilkinson_Sword_Intuition__Review_5417569

Bunnie1982

My sisters two children fascinate me.

The eldest is 11 and is in her first year of secondary school, she is a proper little girl but has no body shape yet. She just goes straight up and down like a beanpole. She has shaved her legs for a couple of years, even though there is no real need to as she is very fair and you cannot see hair on her legs. She is quite a big girl for her age, tall and erm....a little plump but no real significant developments. She has got a lovely nature.

My sisters youngest who is 10 is a proper little tomboy, however she is developing very quickly. She has hips and filled out on top and is extremely hormonal. She is only quite short and slender though.

My mum had a chat with my sister about buying her youngest a bra and chatting to her about periods, but my sister refuses to on the basis that the eldest daughter will be devastated if the youngest starts her periods first.

Savvy_Sue

jackieb wrote: »

What do you other mum's do about hair removal? I know she's only young but she really does need to defuzz her armpits. I bought this for my daughter. It's probably more expensive that some of the others, but it seems safer and easier for her to use. I just hang it up in the shower and she just wets it and uses it whenever she needs to. I don't tell her to use it on her legs but I know she does! http://www.ciao.co.uk/Wilkinson_Sword_Intuition__Review_5417569

I've had one of them and didn't really get on with it, but it probably is safer than a 'regular' razor.

Ink_Ognito

I thought that I'd like a daughter when I finally have kids... I think I just changed my mind! I had such a miserable adolescence!

Although my parents told me to come to them if I wanted to ask them anything (better that than teenage kid up the duff, right?) the reality was very different... think stroppy teen meets stroppy mum = constant screaming matches... at which point do you get to your opportunity to talk about the embarrassing stuff?

When you're not on speakers with your mum there's just no easy way to even be in the same room... let alone say you've started your periods! (Last in my year... at 14!) I never got pocket money, so I had to rely on freebies from Dr Whites and anything I thought I could get away with taking from mum's cupboard! Eventually I was found out, but it didn't get any easier.

Hairy legs... well... one day, I was a kid, the next, I was being called a gorilla by my so-called mates. Used to borrow dad's disposable bics for that one... then lie about the cuts on my knees...!

Bras.... well, bosoms do not run in my family :rolleyes: So you're getting picked on because you're the only girl not wearing a bra... then when you show up in one you're ridiculed because you can't fill it. This is at 15-16 when most of your contemporaries are giving themselves black eyes in athletics.

Deodorant was the ONLY straightforward teenage issue for me... because I started needing it when I was young enough not to have yet developed a catastrophically damaged relationship with my mother!

Gah... teenage girls are HORRIBLE to each other.

Oh, almost forgot... I was known as 'measle face' (again, by the girls who were the closest thing I had to friends)

Kantankrus_Mare

Yeah I have to agree.......I wouldn't want to go through my teenage years again. I was probably the opposite though. Matured especially boob wise way before all my peers and you feel like a freak trying to hide these things that no-one else has got and of course other girls are curious........boys are ...well we all know what boys are like with boobs :rolleyes: Being head and shoulders above everyone else also made me stand out from the rest and people don't realise that under this body of a tall girl with curves is just a little girl with the emotions of a young girl. Can be a very confusing time and I wouldn't want to go through that time again.

Ink Ognito........I love the name brill!!