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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's rather a lot of hand-wringing about perfectly mundane things in this thread.  My DS started growing armpit hair at 11.  DH comes from a culture where body hair removal is normal.  He told DS - in our family, men do not have armpit hair. Here's a razor and a deodorant.  Do this every few days. And then he checked for a few months to remind him.  End of story.  No tantrums about body image, external forces, pressures, therapy and other American nonsense.  You have armpit hair now, take care of it, here's how. The end. [/quote]

This is how it was with my daughter, too.
 Fairly nonchalant.  She is 12 and I noticed some wispy underarm hair recently when she was raising her arms to yawn or stretch.  I said, “Oh, you need to start shaving under her arms.”  Showed her where the razor was, told her to do it in the shower every few days to stay on top of it.  Done.

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I’m with you guys.  Some things are simple. Shaving—thank god—is one of them. My 9 yo has little hairs starting to grow. I will get her razors & show her how to shave when she’s 11. Non-issue. [/quote]

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