I think it's quite irresponsible of a mother or parent not to say anything. If you have a daughter/daughters surely you should say something to them to prepare them. I know of a girl who was really freaked out and thought she was dying when her period started at age 13. That's not on! Any parent who can't talk about menstruation needs to grow up and re-arrange their priorities, in my opinion. If you can't put your child's needs and feelings before your own awkwardness, embarrasment or whatever it is around the subject - that's very immature. I feel sorry for girls who were left in the dark about it. Most will get some info from school but it's not enough. Also no good for the early starters (one of my friends got hers at 10.) Also, without menstruation, none of us would be here! Life fact.
This is how I feel too. It happens at a young age so the person it's happening to is going to be really freaked out if they don't know what is happening and why. Even if I was a single father who had daughters, I'd make sure they knew well in advance, well before it might actually happen. It's not even an embarrassing subject. It's only blood and bodily functions. And we make kids out to be incapable of dealing with the world. I know kids who deal with the world better than their parents do.
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I think it's quite irresponsible of a mother or parent not to say anything. If you have a daughter/daughters surely you should say something to them to prepare them. I know of a girl who was really freaked out and thought she was dying when her period started at age 13. That's not on! Any parent who can't talk about menstruation needs to grow up and re-arrange their priorities, in my opinion. If you can't put your child's needs and feelings before your own awkwardness, embarrasment or whatever it is around the subject - that's very immature. I feel sorry for girls who were left in the dark about it. Most will get some info from school but it's not enough. Also no good for the early starters (one of my friends got hers at 10.) Also, without menstruation, none of us would be here! Life fact.
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This is how I feel too. It happens at a young age so the person it's happening to is going to be really freaked out if they don't know what is happening and why. Even if I was a single father who had daughters, I'd make sure they knew well in advance, well before it might actually happen. It's not even an embarrassing subject. It's only blood and bodily functions. And we make kids out to be incapable of dealing with the world. I know kids who deal with the world better than their parents do.