Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...were often given hormone therapy to slow things down. But in a report being prepared for the Pediatric Endocrine Society, Kaplowitz and co-author Dr. Sharon Oberfield of Columbia University argue that most girls between 6 and 8 who develop breasts or pubic hair should be reclassified as normal and left untreated. "Three-, four- and five-year-old girls should still be managed aggressively," he says, "but there are far fewer of these...
...family support that got Sharon Carter safely though her bout with early puberty. "I am really very excitable," says her mom, "and I had to get all that under control and make her feel that what she was going through was normal." The result, says Sharon: "I don't remember much about all that. I couldn't go swimming when I had my period. And I still can't, and I love to swim. That's the only difference it made with...
...anxiety begins when the girls are about eight years old. "Did you notice so-and-so is developing?" one mom whispers to another as they scan their daughters' classmates for signs of breast buds--and reassurance that their own girls are perfectly normal. Maybe it's time for Judy Blume to write a sequel to her 1970 classic about training bras and first periods. She could call it Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret's Mother...
...best to start a series of casual conversations about your daughter's more immediate concerns, which may surprise you. According to Lynda Madaras, co-author of My Body, My Self for Girls and a puberty educator for 25 years, your daughter, like you, wonders whether she's normal. But while you're already getting set to resent her future boyfriends, she just wants to know why her right nipple is inverted...
...Saturday night, set your clock back one hour but set your alarm to ring one hour later than your normal waking time...