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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Discussing it with fathers or male family members is not a question of shame, necessarily, it’s just about privacy. I don’t discuss my kid’s body with her relatives without her okay unless it’s necessary. [/quote]

I am just unclear about how your kid finds telling her Dad that she has her period weird but is ok telling her Mom. In our household, that would never happen.

Of course you should follow your child’s lead.  If she doesn’t want you to tell her dad, fine.  I would never share my DD’s stuff with her aunts or anyone else without her permission.  But in our family, Dad is in a different category.   It would never occur to my child to look for “privacy” from her Dad. [/quote]

Because I’m a woman and have the same body parts she does? Same reason I took her bra shopping and we change together but she doesn’t change in front of her dad. Personally I would tell him it happened because I think that’s relevant information for him to have (and I would tell DD I was telling him) but if she didn’t want to discuss it with him I’d tell him that too.  -pp you’re replying ti[/quote]

I don’t have excessive sweating issues like my DD does.  Still when she found that normal pharmacy deodorants were not sufficient for her, her Dad found her a dermatologist and I took her to the appt.  She is our daughter and her health is both of our business.  Regardless of whether it’s something going on in her body that either of us has experienced before.

And to those who say that dads and brothers can be jerks, I totally don’t get this.  Brothers, yes.  Best I can tell my son lives to troll his sister.  But her Dad would never ever consider saying something like this.  What kind of fathers do you know? [/quote]

You totally don’t get that brothers can be jerks yet you say your son trolls his sister? Wake up. [/quote]

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