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Helping Daughter Cope with Her Uncle Going into the Military

I have 2 daughter's from a pervious marriage and my oldest just turned 10. She is my "drama queen" ( ha ha) I just ( actually the WHOLE family) just found out that her uncle, her father's youngest brother, just enlisted into the military. He did this on his own and told everyone about his descision AFTER he was sworn in and getting ready to be shipped out. I am not close to that side of the family anymore since our divorce, EXCEPT for him. I still look at him and see this "little kid" who will always be 13 in my eye's. After I had my oldest...

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When (And How!) to Talk to Son About the "Birds and the Bees"?

I have an 8-year-old (almost 9) son in 3rd grade. I've been told that this is around the age in which to start discussing the birds and the bees. Part of the reasoning is that it's better to discuss it openly now before he hears the wrong info around the older kids at school. My son is with 4th and 5th graders a couple times a week in after-school care, so I'm considering that also. Although he is very mature, he seems so innocent right now, and I'm not sure how far to take the discussion. He's a pretty sensitive kid. We don't let our...