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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may want to watch that movie “God, are you listening? It’s me, Margaret” with her.
Or just tell her out of the whole puberty talk context that she must wear something underneath her white shirts now.

And to the PP who mentioned boys- I have one and yes I would be uncomfortable if he still refused to wear swim shorts with the support insert (which he did when he was younger), and if he generally didn’t want to acknowledge puberty. It so happened that he was, in fact, proud of his bodily changes. As should be the case with girls, too, even though it’s harder for them and I acknowledge that. [/quote]

Our society treats female and male bodies TOTALLY differently. Female puberty is a time to be forced to “acknowledge” something bad and difficult; male puberty is something to be proud of. Even in this thread we have the suggestion that a girl being uninterested in puberty means that maybe she’s not actually a girl!

It’s just a bodily process. There’s nothing to “acknowledge.” There’s basic hygeine and information that needs to be conveyed but otherwise stop trying to control it. [/quote]

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