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Also, teenage girls lie or withhold information to their Mom or Dad more often than I would have believed. They have bought into this my body, my business tommyrot.
Then they tell Mom or Dad whatever they want them to know whenever they are ready.
Well, let's be honest....do mom and/or dad need to know about every menstrual cycle their daughter is having?
I NEVER told my dad .... and like I said, it shocked the &*^% out of me when my grandpa asked me and then my mom about it!!
None of their business!!
Just as it was none of my business about my sons' nocturnal emissions, etc. They all did their own laundry, too. Win-win.
Non of us knows what other girls tell or don't tell their parents. Some kids are comfortable saying something others are not. It has nothing to do with parents can't keep a secret or other nonsense. It's a personal matter. No need to think too much of it.
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Well, let's be honest....do mom and/or dad need to know about every menstrual cycle their daughter is having?
I NEVER told my dad .... and like I said, it shocked the &*^% out of me when my grandpa asked me and then my mom about it!!
None of their business!!
Just as it was none of my business about my sons' nocturnal emissions, etc. They all did their own laundry, too. Win-win.
At least the first one.
I was so sad, I was 11.
I was playing outside and noticed. I cried, I hated it from the very second it started. I finally went into tell her, she gave me a pad and went about her business. I wasnt allowed to use tampons till I was 14. I hated my mom for that too. She had illogical reason as to why I wasn't allowed.
My friend who started at 13 was taken to the store to pick out what brand pads and tampons she wanted to use instead of just using whatever her mom used.
If I have a daughter I'll be doing what my friends mom did. Her parts her choice. Ill educate her on both.
Non of us knows what other families and other girls tell or don't tell their parents. Some kids are comfortable saying something others are not. It has nothing to do with parents can't keep a secret or other nonsense. It's a personal matter. No need to think too much of it.
I'm just talking about my experience as a pubescent girl. Even if we are shy, we all talk about it together. Some moms joked a lot about it and telling people. Those girls didn't tell their moms for a long time. Some moms treated it with respect. Those girls told their moms right away. I'm sure their shades of grey but that is what I saw growing up.
I was so sad, I was 11.
I was playing outside and noticed. I cried, I hated it from the very second it started. I finally went into tell her, she gave me a pad and went about her business. I wasnt allowed to use tampons till I was 14. I hated my mom for that too. She had illogical reason as to why I wasn't allowed.
My friend who started at 13 was taken to the store to pick out what brand pads and tampons she wanted to use instead of just using whatever her mom used.
If I have a daughter I'll be doing what my friends mom did. Her parts her choice. Ill educate her on both.
I let my daughter pick what she wanted, which was tampons right from the beginning. I'm allergic to some tampons so I suggested she stick with the brand that worked for me, at least at first.
Now I'm wishing she'd switch to a cup like I have, so that we wouldn't have the mess in the trash can. She's lazy about emptying the can and I don't really go in her bathroom that much so it gets bad sometimes.
I waited a good 6 months before telling my mom, and only then because she had signed me up for swimming lessons and I didn't have any tampons.
Why?
Because we had/ have a terrible relationship and don't talk about "that type of stuff". It's been almost 40 years and I still have a hard time talking to her about anything that she may consider taboo (sex, childbirth, marriage, women's issues...)
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