Our 9 year old daughter has recently started her sex education at school and seems to now be the font of all knowledge regarding everything to do with puberty.
We have just been out and she was having a debate with her 12 year old brother in the back of the car about whether girls or boys have it worse ... it went something like this:
Girl: Girls have it so bad, at least boys don't have to grow anything.
Boy: We do! We grow hairs under our armpits, not to mention pubic hair.
Girl: We get that too, but you don't grow anything that has to stretch your skin! We grow boobs and have periods.
Boy: Periods, Periods! ... What about erections!! They just happen out of the blue when you're not expecting it. One minute you're just walking down the corridor and the next minute ... erection! For no reason!! People can see it, its embarrassing!
Girl: Whats an erection?
Boy: When your willy goes hard!
Girl: Ahhhhhh. Well what about periods. You could be walking down the street and suddenly blood starts pouring out of your bum ... sorry, I mean vagina. Imagine if you were wearing a skirt and forgot to put your knickers on!! How embarrassing!!
Boy: Well boys always have to buy the condoms!
Girl: No they don't, you can get them in girls toilets from the same machine that you get the period papers.
Boy: Well .... boys have wet dreams!
Girl: Ahhhh wet dreams, I guess boys do have it worse!!
Not sure how she came to that conclusion but the whole debate was highly entertaining!!