So what did a gnawed pencil
and chewed metal eraser band have to do with mammaries and ovaries you ask? I
had three girls in my classroom that year. One of them had developed a phobia
about one of my classroom paraprofessionals who was rather well-endowed, if you
get my drift. This particular young lady would glance at the assistant and
then immediately cups her hands under her own small breasts and push them up.
Just several weeks before, this assistant had been her favorite person in the
classroom but she would no longer go near her. This same child would not
look at her own face in a mirror, but had begun to search the room for
reflective surfaces where she could catch glimpses of her chest. So, with him
(he of the "broken testicles) absent from the classroom, it seemed to be
the perfect time for "The Girl Talk." We sat around the table and
talked about how when we become teenagers our bodies change, we grow hair in
private places, we begin to have funny feelings in our private parts and we
begin to grow breasts and they might hurt sometimes or feel funny but it's not
okay to touch them at school, we start having periods when blood will come from
our bodies, but it's okay, it had happened to me and to my assistants and their
own mothers and would happen to all of their girlfriends too, that growing up
to be a woman is cool.
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