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!

Not sure your son would love you posting about that.

Why were you looking?!

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

And you thought you'd share that, why?

Um?

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.

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

horrid beardy bloke cheeks

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

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.

Looking forward to the next willy and balls update

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

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!

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'

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?

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

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

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

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...).

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

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

Tis a tiny bit TMI

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.

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?

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.