anyone got a precocious 9 year old daughter?

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My sweet-natured, innocent little girl of 9 (an only child)has started behaving like a moody, selfish teenager. All she's interested in is clothes, shopping and watching TV and she's so concious of her appearance it worries me. She's gone off her lovely best friend because she's "boring" (ie she prefers doing more age-appropriate things like crafts, reading and generally just running about)and only wants to be with older, cooler girls.

I'm a single mum but she has a good relationship with her dad who she sees a lot of. She has great extended family too. No talk of boys yet but I can see that's only round the corner. I know she has to grow up but this seems far too soon. Is there anything I can do? If she carries on at this rate, by the time she's 13 she'll be totally grown-up. I try to be a fairly sensible parent and am reasonably tough on discipline when I need to be. It's got so bad I feel like sending her to boarding school....

we have an 8 yr old girl who's been like this for a year already. We have BANNED Disney Channel (I blame Hannah Montana etc and all those shows where kids talk to their parents and other grown ups like they're pieces of shite) and it's made a modicum of difference, but she still behaves in such a shallow way and as if the sun shines out of her undersized behind. All her friends do too. I don't let her get away with it though, she is just 8 and will be treated as the child she is by the adults we are . Backchat and Attitude and bad behaviour are NOT tolerated at home.

Maybe hopefully we might get a few months or weeks or even days of her being a lovely little girl again before teenage years hit us smack bang between the eyes ... !!

My dd's are 9 and 8 and the hormonal mood swings and bad attitude in this house is awful sometimes.
I'm sure that when they reach a certain age some sort of hormone kicks in, I remember my sister saying the same of her dd when she was 8 or so and she didn't have disney.

I hate Disney channel. Especially Suite life of Zack and cody, iCarly, Hannah Montana (though that does have a moral), Sonny with a chance etc, butI hate even more Spongebob, Phineaus and Ferb, Fairly Odd parents... and don't let them watch it.
The attitude in these programmes is awful. It's way too old fro them adn my dd's are behaving like teenagers.

They are very into clothes, make up shoes, bags etc all the very girly things that I thought I wouldn't need to deal with for a good few years yet.

But the reason we got sky again only last year (I got rid of it because of the crap they were watching) was that they told me they felt the odd ones out because they didn't know what everyone was talking about at school when they talked about these programmes (cue me vowing that my kids will never be left out - am paying for it now!)