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Postby Beveridge » Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:42 pm

Welp, my wife informed me tonight that my daughter got her period. We were hoping to get one more year before having to deal with this.
When this happens with mine, my plan is to look at my wife stone faced and tell her good luck.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:02 pm

Good luck and God Bless.

Again, happy to have two boys. :lol:

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Postby Shyster » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:18 pm

Be sure to tell your daughter that you told a bunch of randos on a Penguins message board. She'll love that. :lol:

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Postby King Colby » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:18 pm

This is the thing I've been dreading since the second I found out she was a girl.

How old?

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:22 am

Welp, my wife informed me tonight that my daughter got her period. We were hoping to get one more year before having to deal with this.
When this happens with mine, my plan is to look at my wife stone faced and tell her good luck.
lol, my wife basically told me that she'll handle things, and I did wish her luck.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:43 am

Welp, my wife informed me tonight that my daughter got her period. We were hoping to get one more year before having to deal with this.
Oh man, your daughter is close to mine in age, right? She will be 10 in October. The transition from little girl to full blown almost teenager is happening too quickly.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:44 am

Welp, my wife informed me tonight that my daughter got her period. We were hoping to get one more year before having to deal with this.
Oh man, your daughter is close to mine in age, right? She will be 10 in October. The transition from little girl to full blown almost teenager is happening too quickly.
Yep, turned 10 in December. Apparently, a few of her friends (all the same age) are going through it right now. I was totally ignorant, and thought this wasn't a thing until 13ish, so I was a bit surprised.

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Postby meow » Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:50 am

Uhh. Yes. I thought this was a 12-13 thing. Not a barely 10 thing

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Postby Morkle » Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:57 am

For the past week, my kid has been waking up saying he's afraid of the ceiling fan, and the ceiling fan is going to fall on him. Meanwhile, it hasn't moved in like 3 years. He got up like 7 times in the span of an hour last night around 12-1AM. So naturally, he was very upset this morning and couldn't get out of bed. Effin Toddlers, man.

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Postby CBear3 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:52 am

My oldest got hers at 12 (at school), and while mentally prepared didn't have anything on hand and was too embarrassed to ask anybody for help. My younger daughter just turned 11 and as of now the only thing she has is the complete moodiness :)

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Postby obhave » Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:23 am

There a reason they normally do the puberty chat in 5th grade (unless you are in Florida but that's for the political thread...). I think when we did it, 10% of our class had already gotten their periods.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:26 am

These girls are all in fourth grade, FWIW. My wife has been talking to her about it, and she wasn't freaked out or anything. In fact, she told me last night that I had to 'respect this woman', lol.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:42 pm

Source of the post unless you are in Florida but that's for the political thread...
I had no idea what you were referencing until just now, after coming across an article about it. Just, wow.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:47 pm

Yeah, that's the other thing, the moodiness. Our daughter has gotten a bit crankier as she approaches puberty :lol:

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:49 pm

Yeah, that's the other thing, the moodiness. Our daughter has gotten a bit crankier as she approaches puberty :lol:
And let's be honest, this happens around this age regardless (I have sisters).

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Postby King Colby » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:02 pm

Or maybe they just all had their periods at that age and nobody told you!

I dont remember hearing anything about that regarding my sister so es posible

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Postby count2infinity » Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:03 am

Yinz are a bunch of goobers. It’s not a big deal unless you make a big deal out of it. Grow up.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:16 am

Yinz are a bunch of goobers. It’s not a big deal unless you make a big deal out of it. Grow up.
Sure, says the guy that grew up with like eight sisters!

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Postby count2infinity » Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:17 am

Well, there’s that… lol

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Postby mac5155 » Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:10 pm

After a 3 day 2 night stay at children's were finally home and baby Mac had one hole in his head closed and two opened up :lol: cleft palate was closed, ear tubes inserted. Childrens hospital really is a good place to be but I feel for those workers. It's got to be so depressing coming into work to take care of sick kids who constantly cry and scream because they have no other way to express themselves.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:38 pm

Mac, that's great news about little guy. Hope he recovers quickly.

Our son was approved for preschool intervention services through the SD. The therapist that works with him is convinced he is not autistic, but he is just far behind his peers. He has come a long way but he still is not doing stuff like asking questions, carrying on a conversation, etc. I'm still being optimistic that it will continue to improve, but man this is stressful and upsetting as a parent all at once.

Love him to death, I think a lot of the frustration stems from seeing a lot of intelligence and brightness in there... He's got a great personality, is a lot of fun, and we actually had him mostly potty trained before most boys his age. Which is why I'm hopeful that once we get over this hurdle he will be ok.

He's also about to get tubes a second time (as well as possibly getting his adenoids out). The hearing stuff really put him behind the 8 ball

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:43 pm

On another note, I was reminded that Odyssey of the Mind is still a thing. Man I loved OM back in the day, but doesn't seem as widespread as it used to be

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Postby Ad@m » Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:59 pm

There were a few from my class that were in OM. One guy is the Director of Product Management at Google and the other is a gastroenterologist at UPMC.

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Postby count2infinity » Tue Mar 28, 2023 6:33 am

I was an OM kid. Loved it.

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Postby meow » Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:18 am

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