i would look for age appropriate books at the library or ask SHINE SA what they recommend. Better you give a child age appropriate facts, than they get told playground stuff that probably isn't true and will just scare them. By 10, some young girls are already menstruating or will have classmates that are.

It really annoys me that sex ed in school is so hit n miss, this is factual stuff that all children need to know (ignorant children can be far easier targets for paedophiles).

No-one told my mum, and when she started bleeding, she thought she was dying of cancer!!! So i don't think ignorance is bliss. My step daughter is nearly 11 and has been kept ignorant, not taken to school sex ed classes (held at night).

I found excellent age appropriate books at our local library, with the help of the librarians. Her father and i read them with her and answered her questions, she had seen used tampons on the floor of public toilets at After School Care and had questions.

Her mother will let her watch adult movies, tell her smutty jokes, but WON"T educate her about her own body and coming changes - unbelievable.