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Isabelle is right in the middle of it too. She's 10.5 and has developed, physically, quite a bit in the past 6 mos.
One thing I've been doing is making her take evening primrose oil every day. I swear it helps. It may just be the placebo effect (I feel like I'm taking action to make it better therefore it really seems to be doing something) but I'm fine with that lol!
I've also been talking to her a LOT, compassionately and privately, about how the end goal needs to be to learn to disconnect the hormonally driven impulses and feelings from her actions. I've been really open about how I, too, (and all women to some degree) have times where my emotions and perspective are off due to hormones. But that feeling irrational isn't a license to behave irrationally...especially when it comes to your family. So we have a private code for gently pointing out that behavior needs to be examined and maybe a break needs to be taken.
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