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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the people who are saying age 2 or 3 -- I get what you mean, that you didn't hide anything. But at what age (if any) were you real about your DDs re periods -- i.e. they hurt sometimes; don't feel great; you need to worry about staining etc. Surely that's not happening at age 2. Or do people not get to those parts until the girl actually gets her period and then address them as needed? I just think it's a fine line between scaring the DD and making her think that a period is this awesome floating through the clouds experience like you see on tampon commercials.[/quote]

Ah, that level of detail is what you were asking about. OK, if I remember correctly we had the actual conversation about that stuff starting around age 8 with that American Girl book the PPs have mentioned. Then, in 4th grade they got the "period talk" at school, so we just had an ongoing dialogue based on that and whatever questions they had. DD1 started her cycle in 6th grade, at 12, so I'm glad we had the full discussion well before that.[/quote]

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