to be disconcerted by 12 year old ds's..............er....maleness...?

[curlew]

We are a family that's pretty relaxed about nudity, and ds just wandered out of the shower- and his willy and balls have suddenly turned, practically overnight, into grown up ones.

All perfectly natural and I love that he's growing up, but......waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[SmileItsANewYear]

Not sure your son would love you posting about that.

[SantanaLopez]

Why were you looking?!

[curlew]

I wasn't looking- he came out of the bathroom to ask me where his towel was.

[WorraLiberty]

And you thought you'd share that, why?

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Um?

[raffle]

I was stroking DS face the other day, enjoying his beautiful soft baby cheeks, and I suddenly thought how sad it will be when he grows up and has horrid beardy bloke cheeks.

I would imagine it was a similar feeling.

[WaffilyVersatile]

erm ok, that's called puberty - you may want to buy yourself a book?

[SmileItsANewYear]

horrid beardy bloke cheeks

This is hilarious and absolutely what I am going to call them from now on.

[puzzleduck]

My DS is super proud of his developing hairyness, he keeps saying "look Mum, Ive got a few more today" whilst showing me all his bits I would rather not see.

[ShatnersBassoon]

Looking forward to the next willy and balls update

[SilverApples]

You'll survive the shock curlew my love, the next step is when he starts to think about using them...

[NaturalBlondeYeahRight]

Think you are all being a bit harsh here, puberty (especially the overnight kind) can be a bit of a shock for the parents and kids alike. It's not like she was announcing it to all his friends!

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

No, that must have been a bit of a surprise! Even though of course one knows, with a twelve year old you haven't really seen them in the bath for a good few years usually and it must be odd to suddenly realise they are 'men'!
But yes: make sure he doesn't see 'threads I've started'

[curlew]

Oh, God, is that one of those threads where I should have put "lighthearted" in the title so people don't think they should report me to social services or something?

[candycoatedwaterdrops]

Uhm, a bit odd that you posted it on here. I bet he'd be thrilled.

[Meerka]

no, that's really reasonable to be disconcerted! gawd what an awkward moment

[curlew]

Don't worry- my children know my Amazon and Paypal passwords- but never my Mumsnet name!

[Edinbugger]

Sympathise OP and with you puzzleduck - my dd is also v proud of developing hairyness and insists on updating me regularly. It breaks my heart a bit - it's hard to face that she's growing up (and ultimately away...).

[Sparklingbrook]

I had the same with DS1 (now 14). He called me into the bathroom to look at a bruise on his leg while he was in the shower.

You see them naked all the time when they are little then suddenly you don't for ages and it's all a bit different when you do.

Some of these responses are a bit

[SecretRed]

Nah most of us can see that it's lighthearted. The others have had some kind of sense of humour malfunction.

[fanjoforthemammaries7850]

Tis a tiny bit TMI

[LaurieFairyCake]

Why would anyone give the OP a hard time , this is an anonymous forum

Curlew didn't come on and say my son, bob cratchit, of 34 Camden town has big hairy, man balls.

Mumsnet is fuckwitted at times.

OP - sad when they grow up and sometimes it's very disconcerting. I felt the same when dd laughed at a blow job joke the other day on Friends as she got the joke properly for the first time after seeing it a dozen times.

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

Ah, my dd likes to look at my recent comments if I leave the iPad on the breakfast table! She always has a useful comment about who's being unreasonable.... Shall I ask her?

[wigglybeezer]

My youngest DS was traumatised when his 12 year old brother "developed", they share a bedroom and his older brother had a habit of climbing up the bunkbed ladder naked to fetch his PJ's, giving his wee brother a lovely view of dangling tackle.