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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I told both of my daughters I would teach them when they are ready. Older one started summer before 7th. Younger one asked me when older one started and I told her. She chose to start at the same time.

People on this board try to act like it’s “normal” for girls not to shave legs, but IME most girls still do. [/quote]

It IS "normal" for many to not shave. Just because most in your experience do, doesn't make not shaving abnormal. 
It's like saying most girls and women in my experience don't put weird colors in their hair, but people act like it's normal to do so.  It IS![/quote]

No sorry. You and your nonshaving teen are weird. [/quote]

I don’t understand it but more girls are not shaving now.   I have a teen and am a HS teacher.  My daughter is hairy and used hair removal cream in 4th grade.  She used it less and less the past two years and I don’t think has it all this summer.  She doesn’t seem bothered by her underarms either.  I ask her all of the time about the pool and she tells me I am the one with the issue if I care about hair.  Last spring I saw many of my students in sleeveless shirts or dresses with unshaven armpits.  [/quote]

I just spent the last two weeks at two different busy beach resorts out of state and didn’t see a single solitary female with leg or armpit hair at any age. Sure I wouldn’t have noticed stubble, but nobody was au natural. Literally no one. [/quote]

Are you really looking that closely at people on crowded beach resorts? [/quote]

NP.

I don’t “looking that closely.”

But DD noticed.  She visited a friend over the summer who didn’t shave anything.  The girl’s un shaved armpits were almost immediately noticeable.

And DD also noticed when she went to the pool with her friend.  Besides the girl’s un-shaved legs, there was some rather noticeable hair sticking out of her bathing suit.

Maybe you or your child really like that look; you do you.   DD found it really odd and she will continue shaving like most of her friends do.[/quote]

That comment was directed at someone who said she could tell no one on a crowded beach had gone unshaven, not your child who spent the day with a friend. [/quote]

Um, she spent a week, not a day, but whatever, and

At our swim club in NOVA, all the girls are wearing (shocker):  swimwear.  As has been mentioned, with some of the blond teens, I probably wouldn’t even notice.  But our club is diverse; hairy legs, and especially unshaven arm pits would be very noticeable on a girl.  It only takes a glance to notice.

They all shave.

Maybe these enormous groups of unshaven teen girls actually exist somewhere, but it’s not NOVA.

Probably more of a Takoma Park phenomenon. [/quote]

This. But in general I’ve realized that DCUM does not reflect real life. [/quote]

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