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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is 11.5, in 6th grade, and has started showing physical and emotional signs of puberty for the last 6 months. She refuses to talk to anyone about it, read anything about it, to consider wearing a bra, etc. If I bring it up, in any way, she plugs her ears, screams and runs away.

I have tried doing things gently, like leaving a book in her room last year. I found it on her 7 year old sister's bookshelf. I bought her a few sports bras for coverage - her uniform is a white shirt and her soccer uniform has a white shirt. She won't wear them, which is fine, but she also won't even try them on or consider that she might want them. She's probably a B cup at this point.

I'd leave it to her friends to help, but she doesn't have a best friend who is a girl. Her bffs are 2 boys. She is the youngest in her grade, so the girls she knows and are friends with appear to be wearing bras - at least based on my conversations with their moms. But maybe she's not close enough to them to talk about it or even notice?

Any advice? Breasts are only the beginning and while I know she knows intellectually what's happening, I'd really like to be there for her as she goes through this.

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