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- From: dolson@crl.ucsd.edu (Mark Dolson)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Toddler Genital Names (was: "Stop Grabbing Your Penis!")
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:08:13 -0600
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- WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE BELOW !! :-) :-)
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- >>This off the original subject, but does it really feel good at that age?? Do
- >>3 year olds really have feelings in "down there"?? My 2.5 yo daughter touches
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- >Yes they do. Lots of little girls masturbate. The only problem is
- >getting them not to do it in public since they don't KNOW that
- >that's what they're doing. They only know it feels good. Think
- >about using somemore accurate terms than "down there" with your children.
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- OK, here goes.... WHICH accurate terms?
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- Story: A couple of months ago, my daughter, then 19 months, after pointing
- at various body parts and identifying them, put her finger directly on
- her clitoris and asked "Dat?". I automatically responded with the correct
- term, which she wanted repeated a few times. As I repeated, though, I
- became less certain whether I was saying the right thing. I want to give
- Emily accurate information, but also to use the common toddler-approved
- words (poop vs bowel movement, for example). Somehow, I don't think
- little girls go around talking about their clitorises (clitori?). Some
- friends seem to use the word vagina for the whole area, which is fine,
- I guess, if that's the common vernacular, but it feels strange to me to
- tell Emily that her clitoris is a vagina, especially with the awareness
- that so many of us have that they seem all too far apart at times :-).
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- So I'd love to hear the net.wisdom on this one. I think many are in
- my position of starting from the beginning, since I think "dowm there"
- is about as specific as my mother got!
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- I'll post a summary if anyone is interested! :-)
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- Laura Dolson
- dolson@crl.ucsd.edu
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