Is 10 1/2 too young to be starting hormonal changes?

[insiderart]

One of the reasons that girls today are going "hormonal" earlier than those from days gone by is that many more of today's girls are overweight. Once a girl reaches at or about 100 lbs you can expect her to start "developing" and even have a menses, regardless of age!

My main advice to you is to get your girls some regular exercise.... tired children are less sassy children. Also I would take them for a physical, see if your physician thinks they should diet, or just restrict (grow into the weight they are at present.)

At my house when you get an attitude it's "oh hale no!" time. Things that are extras start going bye bye... tv.. computer.. ds... Oh and don't tell me you're bored either... you'll find yourself cleaning something. My daughter almost never, and I mean never says she is bored anymore.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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I have 3 boys... 21, 16, 11... and 1 girl who will be 8 in July. So far she is still my sweet little Mama's girl but I dread those years already, cause I know they're coming.

Sometimes when she is all cuddled up in my lap I'll say to her, "Remember that you love me when you're 13."

 

[willowcol]

Yep I would say its hormones, mine just turned 12 and we have been going through the raging hormones for over a year. Good luck your going to need it. This is mine she turned 12 last month with my 14 year old son.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

What an interesting fashion statement???

Them socks........LOL

 

[Mourningdove]

Oh I feel for ya! Of my 5 kids only 2 are girls and I swear for me boys was easier to raise! My girls were mouthy tomboy types. Their horomones raged from about 8yrs and beyond. Somehow you just get through it(though I don't know how I did) My girls didn't become loving, respectful daughters until after they themselves became mommys. Now 1 of my girls is always wanting to appologize for things she did way back when!
I have always heard that what you dish out to your mother will always come back to ya ten fold! Good Luck and hang in there!

 

[CoopCrazy]

My Nieces are 10 and 12 and yep the hormones are a stirring... They both go from sweet cuddly " I love you Uncle JOsh " To weepy " Why do you hate me and your always soo mean , I mean I just can't clean my room or I'll DIE"

Gotta Love Em...

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[mom'sfolly]

I have an 11-year old boy, and yes it is hormones. She will be starting her menses, if she hasn't already. It will get worse before it gets better.

As a girl, I think I should have been locked in the basement at about 12, thrown raw meat every other day or so, and let out when I turned 18.

Thank God I have boys.

Good Luck.......you'll need it!!!!!

 

[chicken_china_mom]

Thanks everyone. I'm glad to know I'm not in this alone. And I plan to get them outside and get them a lot more active. And I agree, when they are tired, they are a lot less emotional. I'm going to try to plan more things for them to do too, to get their minds more stimulated. We live in an itty bitty town where there are only 8 kids total, and only 3 are ever allowed out to really play, and mine are two of them! I think I'll start scheduling some play dates with kids from church and stuff like that. And they get plenty of chores to do, however they are always trying to get out of doing them. It's hard when I have two of them, cause when I need to supervise one, the other is usually off doing something she shouldn't. And they have already been grounded A LOT this Spring. And I take stuff away too when they get bad. I threatened them just the other day that if they didn't get their acts straight I wold pack up their Wii and ship it back to their father. They don't have any other game systems, no I Pods, no tv's, nothing like that. There are two tv's in the house, one in my room, one in the living room. What I do when I go to work is I lock the cable box so they can't change the channels to Disney or Nick, and I leave it on the Science channel, and the the remote for my room comes to work with me. My mom watches the girls when I am at work, so she clings tightly to the living room remote so they can't steal it and change the channel. Next step is to get rid of more toys, especially the ones they really like. I don't want to be a mean mom, but they are leaving me very little choice. They want to play hardball, they're gonna get hardball. Game on!!!

 

[DiVon80]

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Thats it! And the milk, you need to get a milk w/ out cows getting the added hormones. Its in everything we eat. They put the hormones to make them grow bigger and produce more.

Makes me sick Try to get organic whenever possible,, Even watch the OJ get the ones labled from American farmers. All the side effects to greed.

 

[nivtup]

Hmmm, hormonal teenage girls???

We have limited experience

One 17 yr old

One 16 yr old

One 15 yr old

One 12 yr old

All Girls

The boys were sooo much easier to raise.


Good thing I can hide in with the chickens, because the definately want NOTHING to do with them.