is 7 1/2 too young to start puberty??

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im not sur if i should be posting this in the teenage section cos thats what dd1 is acting like at the mo.she is stroppy and cheeky and answers back,and talks about how awful her life is and that nobody understands her!she also regularly screams'i hate you' at me and slams doors.
she has only started doing this in the last few weeks so i dont know if its due to boredom of being off school or cos shes worried about starting junior school or if hormones are starting to happen?she is very tall for her age.
she started having tantrums at 6 months old and stopped by the age of 2.i dont know whatto do to help her.

If it is puberty then its too young and you need to take her to the gp. A simple xray of the hands can tell if it is puberty bec hands start to grow before anything else. Is she showing any other signs like pubic hair.

mind you a friend of mine visited this week and her dd is 8 and she was exaclty the same as your daughter - her attitude was worse than my 12 yr old and she'sbadenought

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Boredom at being off school for so long sounds perfectly reasonable. My nearly 6yo has been a bit like that (but in a simpler way) this week. Plenty of attention and cuddles and he is more like his usual self.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if she does have some concerns regarding moving up to junior school either.

It seems more likely than precocious puberty, TBH. Children are exposed to more adult behaviour than we were through TV etc, so she may well be repeating arguments that she had heard without them being from the heart, IYSWIM.

I find that a lot of difficult attitude behaviours can be resolved by going back a stage and treating the child as if they were a bit younger. Put yourself in her shoes, what would you want if the holidays dragged on too much and you felt out of your regular, predictable, routine of school, and, what's more, you believed that it would return to the old comforting routine but be something different and perhaps more demanding because of going up to juniors? Maybe she needs some more one-to-one mummy-time, more cuddles and less demands upon her for a while.

BTW, not criticising you at all here!

Sorry, "...that it would not return to the old comforting routine..."

thanks for ur replies.she doesnt have any physical signs of puberty.i think its just the boredom thing and tbh she doesnt get much attention as i have 3 others.she doesnt see any of her friends either during the hols as we live a bit further away from the school than most,so shes not really mixing and shes a very sociable person.ive only just realised this typing it now so thanks everyone

You could be describing my 9 year old daughter! She too had a massive increase in this sort of behaviour around 7.
I am rather at a loss, but it does make me feel a bit inadequate.
"You never talk to me mummy" "I hate mummys" "You didnt have to have us" etc etc.