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[quote=Anonymous]While getting ready for bed tonight, 5yr old DD mentioned that during a recent playdate her best friend pulled down her own underwear and told DD to touch her.  According to my DD, she did what she was told but did no reciprocate by removing her own underwear.  We have always talked about what our private parts are, that they are our's alone, and we shouldn't touch others or let anyone touch our's.  Instead, she should always say no and tell us if something like that happened.  I reassured her that I wasn't mad, and in fact that I'm glad she told me and can always tell me anything, but that she needs to know that it isn't okay, even if her friend told her to do it.

I'm totally freaked out.  Obviously I need to tell the friend's mom, who is herself a good friend of mine.  I'm also scared that despite years of talk about no-touch and so on, that all it took was her best friend to tell her something and she did it.

Please offer any advice or insight as to what to do next. Is this part of normal childhood curiosity, that we need to discourage but not make into major drama, or is this reason for serious concern and need to find help for our child.  This is such an important thing, and I'm caught off guard since I felt as if we had inoculated DD against this sort of thing.[/quote]

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