First Timers

[ceelopez12]

Happy Tuesday

All tips suggestions accepted.

What explanation do you give your first time girls who start their menstrual cycle. We have been getting a few girls each month starting in the 4th grade who are starting at school.

Thank you

[Amethya]

I offer the explanation if they don't know what it is, or I call their parents to see if they want to pick them up or explain by phone. A lot of my kids, even the 4th graders, know what a period is. So I don't worry much about it, I just tell them to bring extra underwear, pants and pads in their backpacks, and if they are in pain they can tell me, I can let them a while on the heating pad or call parents to bring meds for them or pick them up.

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

When I was 12, my father told me that what women were singing about on a vitamin commercial was about their first period. To this day I can call up that song and I still wonder why a vitamin commercial lady was singing about periods. And what was my Dad thinking, that it would be comforting? Gosh.

OK this was in reply to someone singing in their comment...it looks kind of random out on its own, but my point still stands. Don't sing about periods!