The puberty puzzle: are kids really maturing sooner? What's "normal" now? The facts you need to help your child deal with the challenges of a changing body. (your health).(Cover Story)

Good Housekeeping | October 1, 2001| | Copyright

In the middle of a perfectly ordinary field trip with my nine-year-old daughter's class, I noticed that one of her fourth-grade classmates was wearing a bra. Wow; early, I thought. And then I looked closer. There was a sea of straps--sports bras, training bras, purple bras. Nearly half of these girls, seemingly overnight, had something to put in a bra.

There's a lot of angst these days about little girls turning into little women before their time. The media's in a frenzy. Pubic hair on six-year-olds! Sex-crazed tweeners! Doctors aren't sure what it all means. And ...

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