#like dad we have sex ed books on the shelf behind the front door

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

my period came when i was year 6 in 2007- so i was either 11 or 12. i kinda knew what was happening bc i’d been reading aussie teen girl magazines dolly and girlfriend (ie aussie 17 magazine) and cosmo and i’d also had sex ed at school the previous year. but at the same time, i didn’t know what was happening when my cramps hit every fuckin month, considering that mine were super intense up until i got on the pill in my early 20s….. since i had fuck all idea how to bring up my period pain and my periods in convos in high school, including with my doctor, let alone just at all. just. yeah. 13 isn’t too young to get your period when it all depends on when a a girl’s body decides to start having the period and not weird societal standards of whats “too young”.

as a parent, you should take initiative (yes esp if you’re a dad!) to teach your own children about their periods and how they work instead of solely relying on tween/teen/womens magazines, tv and school for period education. i don’t care how old you are as a parent or if you’re an “old school” type of parent either. take the the fucking time to read up on it for your OWN damn daughters instead of relying on everything else/someone else to educate them. in the day and age of google, it honestly isn’t fucking hard to do that.

absolutely hysterical and also not hysterical at all to me that some people view 13 as "too young" for getting your period when a bunch of us are like, uh yeah I'd already had my period for years at that point in my life

like I've talked to moms with adolescent children and discussed that yeah, your 11 year old may be getting her period any time now and you should be prepared. in fact, the younger they are, the more you should prepare them because everyone has a different body. I got mine when I was 10 and my sister was 15. you really have no idea and if you are super young, it's even scarier if you haven't been prepared.