THE Talk...well, one of them at least

Red Suede Mules

So this evening's ride home from the dojo was an interesting one.  My daughter is starting to mature and her body is changing - a change which I may add she hates.  The conversation started off regarding shaving and eventually ended up discussing what's going to happen when she gets her period.  She is also at the fortunate age that it is the year in which school will separate the boys from the girls - and play THE movies.  She has begged for me to excuse her and I have refused.  If I had to sit through that flick growing up - she is sitting through it too!

So I start to talk to her about stuff - she's yelling and screaming and giggling.  Telling me how 3 out of the 5 girls at her lunch table have already gotten their periods and that it's all they ever talk about.  That one girl had gotten hers over two years ago - these girls are currently 11.  So her question to me was - "When exactly am I going to get mine".  That's a good question I thought - I don't even pay close enough attention to mine to know when I am getting it.  But unfortunately I could provide her with the exact day and time that she was hoping for.

At one point in the car we were talking about estrogen and testosterone and the fact that men and women have both just at different levels.  This led to another topic to which I had to mention the words clitoris and penis - and that was it she was done.  She laughed so hard I would not have been surprised if tears were streaming down her face - to be honest I was laughing so hard at this point that my eyes were full of tears.  It was quite hysterical.

It led to more questions - like what is she going to do when she gets her period and she needs to train.  What is she going to carry at school so that people are staring at her?  All the hypotheticals that any young girl would be running through her mind.

My little girl is growing up into a young lady.  This should be a lot of "fun".

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

Arnold H. Glasow