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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 399668" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>easy child had a classmate whose mother I had known at uni. The mother was a staunch feminist, one who believed in telling her children every little detail about everything, when the time was right. Unfortunately, her daughter got her first period at 8 years old! Mum was totally taken by surprise and horrified tat she had not yet prepared her daughter for this eventuality - but she had not expected it so young! Poor girl, she also thought she was dying. She was a few years younger than easy child (they were in a combined grade class) so easy child knew enough to tell her, "It's OK, you're not dying, I'll got get a teacher to help you." Luckily it was at school, there was support there. Poor darling! Of course it meant everyone knew, and there were gasps of horror form the other kids - how awful, to start at 8! And not know!</p><p>Which of course just made her forward-thinking and feminist mother all the more embarrassed. But really - how could you expect this?</p><p></p><p>Sometimes it gets away from you.</p><p></p><p>By the time I got my period, I knew all about it, I felt like it was never going to happen, and wondered what was wrong with me that I had to wait so long! I went to an all-girls high school where we were given the facts of life talk (especially what to do when you get your period) from Day 1. All funded by a sanitary pad company, so we got their propaganda ("you have to use that brand, nothing else works") in every film and brochure. Every year. Sometimes several times a year.</p><p>it was years before I was able to change brands, and the day I did, I went through the day expecting the pads to fail. As for tampons - not for nice girls, not until after you're married. Until I had to leave home to go to live in a house with a man in it who was not family (he was a priest) - my mother reluctantly let me use tampons because they would be more practical and discreet.</p><p></p><p>It's sad when a girl has to cope with this and has no foreknowledge. It's reprehensible when the child should have known.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 399668, member: 1991"] easy child had a classmate whose mother I had known at uni. The mother was a staunch feminist, one who believed in telling her children every little detail about everything, when the time was right. Unfortunately, her daughter got her first period at 8 years old! Mum was totally taken by surprise and horrified tat she had not yet prepared her daughter for this eventuality - but she had not expected it so young! Poor girl, she also thought she was dying. She was a few years younger than easy child (they were in a combined grade class) so easy child knew enough to tell her, "It's OK, you're not dying, I'll got get a teacher to help you." Luckily it was at school, there was support there. Poor darling! Of course it meant everyone knew, and there were gasps of horror form the other kids - how awful, to start at 8! And not know! Which of course just made her forward-thinking and feminist mother all the more embarrassed. But really - how could you expect this? Sometimes it gets away from you. By the time I got my period, I knew all about it, I felt like it was never going to happen, and wondered what was wrong with me that I had to wait so long! I went to an all-girls high school where we were given the facts of life talk (especially what to do when you get your period) from Day 1. All funded by a sanitary pad company, so we got their propaganda ("you have to use that brand, nothing else works") in every film and brochure. Every year. Sometimes several times a year. it was years before I was able to change brands, and the day I did, I went through the day expecting the pads to fail. As for tampons - not for nice girls, not until after you're married. Until I had to leave home to go to live in a house with a man in it who was not family (he was a priest) - my mother reluctantly let me use tampons because they would be more practical and discreet. It's sad when a girl has to cope with this and has no foreknowledge. It's reprehensible when the child should have known. Marg [/QUOTE]
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