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[quote=Anonymous]I was the younger girl cousin playing with older male cousins (6 and 8 years older than me). I also had a brother who was 2 years younger than me.

This strikes me as pretty weird and I can understand why you are uncomfortable with it. My cousins were very nice kids and played with us constantly when we visited; if they were bored by little kid stuff, they did a great job hiding it. But they were very careful never to be physical with us. We had plenty of fun and plenty of wild games but that just wasn't part of any of it. They always seemed very aware that I was a girl and that my brother was way smaller than them. At most I remember sitting near my cousin while he read us a story, or maybe once being rescued from a tree branch. I never felt even slightly uncomfortable around them, not once. It's very probable that your nephew means nothing by any of this but he needs to learn that social expectations change as you get older and what was OK before is not OK anymore. For his own sake as much as your DD's.[/quote]

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