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Originally Posted by hordak
I agree. I'm a little surprised that 9-10 years old is "too late" however.
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I think its best its grown up with as a part of life, but if not then before puberty starts. 11 and 12 year olds are having sex and getting pregnant, that makes 11 too late. I think its better to understand why your body is changing before the change happens. And I know that being armed with information from my parents at an age when I still listened to them and regarded them as all important, was what helped me find the law of chastity very easy to keep, I knew exactly what I was saying no too
I don't know when my daughter will start her period or the ball will start rolling for my son, but my Mum in the 1950s started her periods at 8 and my husband was about 9 when puberty started for him in the 80s, by 9 or 10 for both of them 'the talk' would have come too late. For me it was 15 before I went through puberty on any level, but by that point I doubt my parents would be taken as seriously, and I would have had all the information off my peers, probably without the discussions about why they wished they had waited longer. By 12 for me I think the window of me taking in seriously what my parents had to say on the matter would have been too late
-Charley