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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading this is interesting to me, as the mother of a 14 yr old.

I'm betting if you asked my daughter how she learned to shave her legs, she'd say friends. She tunes me out completely whenever I've brought up "growing up" topics, I doubt she remembers me mentioning some girls shave their under arms and I could show her how, when she was 9 and I noticed she was growing underarm hair. She completely ignored me, as she did when I mentioned some girls shave their legs, a yearish later, and so on. I've stocked her book shelves with different "growing up" books, including the always-recommended Care and Keeping of You. The spines are pristine.

I'm pretty sure in 20 years, she'll be wondering how on earth I let her grow up feral and why I left it to her friends to educate her. I know some parents do let their children down in this regard, I'm not questioning that. I'm just betting my kid's going to be thinking she was left to flounder too. Though she might remember the time I forced her to come to the drug store with me to to buy a selection of different tampons so she could try to find one for swimming that she didn't hate. That was highly traumatic for both of us. (Advice to any parents considering doing this in the future - just use Amazon. Why didn't I use Amazon?!)[/quote]

This is a very good point. It's interesting what we remember from our childhoods and how we remember things. And girls do sometimes blow off their moms and think that can't possibly know anything worthwhile.

Yes but it’s the mom’s job to keep trying. I’d rather be remembered as a nag than a neglectful, which is what my mother was.

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