It was very hard. My family wasn't very open about sex or puberty when I was younger and being a timid and shy 13 year old, I was petrified to share the news of my development. I waited a few months before I sprung the news. I think I was more afraid to tell my mom in front of my sister because I didn't want to get mine before she did. (To this day I have no idea if she has hers or not but I'm assuming she does since she's 22.) I waited until a morning that my sister had left for school and my mom was on her wait out the door to work. That way there was no awkwardness about telling her the big news and I would be home alone to get ready for school like nothing had happened. Now my dad coming into my room later that night telling me how proud he was that I was so brave by telling my mom.. that was awkward. To this day I still don't know if he was drunk or not. He must have been in order to bring it up.
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It was very hard. My family wasn't very open about sex or puberty when I was younger and being a timid and shy 13 year old, I was petrified to share the news of my development. I waited a few months before I sprung the news. I think I was more afraid to tell my mom in front of my sister because I didn't want to get mine before she did. (To this day I have no idea if she has hers or not but I'm assuming she does since she's 22.) I waited until a morning that my sister had left for school and my mom was on her wait out the door to work. That way there was no awkwardness about telling her the big news and I would be home alone to get ready for school like nothing had happened. Now my dad coming into my room later that night telling me how proud he was that I was so brave by telling my mom.. that was awkward. To this day I still don't know if he was drunk or not. He must have been in order to bring it up.