a few times in the past year i have walked in my 6 year old daughter's bedroom and caught her laying on her stomach and rubbing up and down on a pillow. it was obvious by the startled look on her face that she was doing something that she didn't want to be seen doing. i didn't say anything about what i had seen and went about whatever i'd gone in the room to do.

i know that this is all a natural part of growing up but isn't 6 a bit young to start exploring the "feel good" spot? i didn't expect this to begin for at least another 5 years.

any thoughts?

thanks!

Just reasure her that she's normal, because she is. As long as you stay away from the negative you should be ok, you don't want her thinking she's bad. What she's doing is a natural part of life, I'm not sure about the age thing though, i've heard of 2-3/yr olds masterbating. What you should do though is talk to her to make sure she discovered how to do it on her own, she could have discovered it on her own, but you should ask her to make sure she did.

http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/biggrin.gif Yes, this is normal. http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

My "just turned 4" son lays on his tummy and rocks his hips sideways all the time.
I'll finally say to him "ok, enough for now, lets do something else" LOL
Also my almost 2 year old daughter humps the highchair LOL. If I bother her at all while she is "busy", she'll get mad at me!!!

This is normal behaviour, and I would not worry about it unless it becomes excessive, or if it came about completely out of the blue and you're worried about what is behind it. (abuse)
Otherwise, human beings are very sexual creatures - it feels good - so kids do it - they don't think there is anything wrong because it's their body - unless you tell them it is wrong (which you should not do)

blah, blah, blah,... I went on too long again http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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