Posts by Emma Hart
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In theory ORRS funding should be bottomless: so long as your child fits the criteria, the funding should be provided.
Cannot agree with this enough. I'm looking at this ORS funding release, wondering if it'll get my daughter her itinerant back, and thinking probably 'fat chance'.
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I just want to repeat this. I agree with it. Vehemently. In a kind of scary 'backing away from the crazy person at the party who is ranting at you about something really important to them' way.
I may be familiar with this facial expression.
I think I may also get what Pebbles (I think) was saying about girls finding Paris Hilton accessible, but it may be overly long-winded and personal.
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I've been told Romeo & Juliet were 14yrs old?
That sounds about right. Juliet's nurse swears by her virginty at twelve years old, which carries an obvious implication. But in England the age of consent was 12 until 1875. Most twelve year olds would have been working, and they wouldn't be hitting puberty until about 16 - 18. This teenagerhood thing is a relatively new concept.
The age of consent also varies a lot from country to country even if you just look at Western nations, and I'm sure everybody feels, as we do, that the age is about right?
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It looks like it's the difference between entering puberty and starting periods that is the confusion.
Cheers, Aquila. It had indeed been a long time since I read it, and it switches between talking about puberty, periods, and the beginning and end of menarche. Hence the confusion.
I hate the way sex education is gendered, so that it always ends up being 'girls are pressured innocent flowers, but boys are little horndogs'. It's insulting to both sides.
True, but what's the alternative?
How about 'not lying'? How about describing girls in some way where girls who DO experience sexual desire in their early teens can recognise themselves? Yes, of course boys should know girls can be horndogs. I suspect they actually do. But mostly, how about 'hey, you know what, everybody's different, and it's okay if you want to, and it's okay if you don't'?
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Slightly back on topic: what about iPod's, specifically the touch ones, are they part of the 'dextriarchy' too?
Anything you hold in your hand and operate with your thumb, hold it in your left hand, note what the meaty part of your hand is lying on top of, and how far the 'reach' is to your most commonly used buttons. Most phones do seem to be reasonably together for not making you push 147 every time you reach for 'send'. There isn't room.
Because you hold the Touch in one hand and operate it with the other, I'd think it would actually be easier.
Um, I mean, no! Bloody right-handed styluses (stylii?) etc.
I would like to note, irrelevantly, that the title of this post has caused me to mentally sing Lobo's 1970s smash hit 'Me and You and a Dog Named Boo' for approximately four straight hours.
Specifically because of this horror, I just didn't use the phrase 'some girls do, some girls don't' over on the other thread.
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Turns out you can, but it isn't as simple as you'd think it would be (I think there's a lesson there about MS for all of us).
I believe the lesson is 'online manuals are harder to shred than print ones'.
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Try being Gay
At least once.
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B'duh, sorry, I clipped the end off that quote:
And not only has the average age dipped, but the number of those who start puberty at the younger end of the range has increased.
Theories abound as to why the onset of puberty is moving earlier: unhealthy lifestyles and unstable family environments were cited by British psychologist Dr Aric Sigman earlier this year. His research, reported by the BBC, found that girls were reaching puberty at just over 10, about 18 months earlier than their mothers, and almost two years earlier than their grandmothers.
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Emma, do you have stats for the average age at first period in NZ being 10? I'm pretty sure it's closer to 12 3/4.
Meh, I hit it in a Listener article some months ago, and by then I'd already read it... somewhere.
According to the Ministry of Health, puberty starts for New Zealand girls some time between nine and 14. For boys, it’s a little later at between 11 and 16 years.
The issue, explains Gluckman’s Liggins Institute colleague, associate professor Wayne Cutfield, “is that the average age of puberty has crept down by just a few months and it’s now around 11 for boys and girls”.
My daughter's class is certainly full of girls who without knowing I'd have guessed to be about thirteen or fourteen. It seems more prevalent in the PI girls.
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Sorry can't deal with the idea of being burnt, but under a the grapefruit tree/Kowhai/Totara would be nice.
I also would like this, just a tree no marker, but the last time I checked it wasn't legal.
I'm just happy I've lived long enough that I'm now in a situation where I know my partner would prevent my mother from giving me a decent Christian burial.