Love hearing from you, Ann!! Can’t you just picture little Lovey making her big announcement? She is very delicious, as I’m sure “Georgia” has told you. Not too much longer now and we’ll be back with Georgia again!! We are all so excited to get our summer family back together. Please keep in touch. I always smile when I hear from you. XXOO

AGREE!!!

Michelle,

You are SO GREAT. I’m going to make a copy of your comment and keep it for reference. I am so in love with you right now. Thank you!!! These are great tips and I am so thankful to you right now.

I am picturing my girls practicing their craziest scream (they are going to love that because I am not a fan of screaming in the house). I also love the one about explaining that it usually starts with a caress…ugh, this is all so scary to me, but it’s important and I can not thank you enough for taking the time to submit that list.

You are amazing.
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Hazel,

I’m so happy that you think I handled this topic properly. I was a little worried. I would hate for anyone to think that I was making light.

I can’t believe how much your kid knows at 5 years old. Sweet Pea waves her gynie around like it’s the American Flag. As soon as I feel she is ready, I will get more into the things you discuss with your kid. Or maybe I will do like you, and wait until she asks…

Michelle,

You raised some really good points. Thanks for posting them and sharing your school discussion with us.:)

Hazel

2. So also let your cutie pies know that not only people aren’t allowed to touch anywhere the bathing suit is but if anything makes them uncomfortable get away from there and the speaker said let out the loudest craziest scream ever not to yell fire (I’m not sure how to explain that to kids so they won’t just do crazy screams)

3. and its not just men, its women and other kids!!

She told a story about a little girl kept saying the doctor comes in the middle of the night and the parents thought she was having a bad dream ect. finally they found out the creepy teenager was sneaking in her room through the window and saying he was the doctor!!

4. Also it IS mostly people they know or see often, neighbor ect. The speaker said you would be surprised at the professional people that are molesters not just creepy looking people

5. Creeps learn kids routine and ever so slowly build up to to sexually destroy our children and they do it over and over again before they are ever caught!

I’m going to have a talk with my daughter again tonight, thank you again for this reminder. now I’m freaked out a little again I’m going to look for my notes from the school thing and pray for “Lucy, her daughter and the safety of all our little blessings! hugs! Michelle W

I love that the message stuck with your girls. Because I nursed my son for, like, forever (not National Geographic ‘forever’, but for a while), he used to get a bit handsy with what’s on top. That was the start of the ‘Private Parts’ conversations and discussion of which areas of the body are for whom to enjoy, etc. I was mostly wanting to ensure that his preschool teachers and beloved Aunties didn’t get groped, and felt I owed it to him, so that someone wouldn’t have a huge, embarrassing reaction to his being grabby which would be upsetting for both of them. I wanted to help him in maintaining his healthy relationships with others.

So, at five, he knows a lot: he knows about private parts and not touching ladies boobs, he knows that babies come out of vaginas (we used a childbirth book for that one, b/c he wanted to ‘see that’ and I’m not recreating that magic moment) and he knows some basic egg/fertilization stuff. That’s as far as he’s asked….

I try to keep in all in the realm of ‘reproductive health’ and make it more about education than fear (and I was in a similar situation as Edwina, so I have a lot of respect for her attitude of negatives and positives). Also, I think if we regularly respect and listen to our children, they can approach us when things go wrong, and there’s the key– we can tell them “no one should do XYZ” till our faces are blue, but they have to know we’ll believe them, not overreact and support them when they need help.

And good on ya for posting this. I’m sad for “Lucy” and her daughter, but also heartened that we are more willing to discuss it than the previous generations.

It is a good thing to use your experiences to help others, and you are a good person. I’m glad you decided to send the comment. I imagine it couldn’t have been easy, but I’m sure there is a part of you that felt a little sense of relief once you hit “Submit Reply.” It would have been bugging you if you held back. I’m so glad you didn’t. Your comment was very powerful and a good guide for others, and for me. It wasn’t “wanky” at all.

Best word ever, by the way. 🙂

Thank you so much, Sue. I figure it’s better to start talking about all this stuff early so we never have to have “talks.” We just talk all the time…lots of talking over here..talk talk talk…all the time…blah blah blah…it’s exhausting! 🙂

Thank you for taking a minute for me. You are the seriously the best and I appreciate your input so much. Validation from a “been there, done that” is always good for us newbies.