Comments on: Menstruation Training: What My Mother Couldn’t Teach Me http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/ The personal blog of Laura Moncur Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:26:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stace http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-217183 Stace Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:23:12 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-217183 <p>Hi im 11 yrs old & got my period. i didnt tell my mom, and i just steal some of her pads (HUGE!) im neveeeer gonna tell her</p> Hi im 11 yrs old & got my period. i didnt tell my mom, and i just steal some of her pads (HUGE!) im neveeeer gonna tell her

]]> By: EK http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-194434 EK Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:38:58 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-194434 <p>Wow, that video is so much more informative than whatever we got in elementary school. Now I'm only 23, so when I started my period for the first time, my mom was way past the napkin belt so she was good enough to tell me about it. Though the first day, I still had to ask a friend who had already had her period for a year before I started mine for some extra pads. My friend, one whom I'm very close to, still remembers when I gave her "the look" and I didn't have to say anything, she just handed me a pad. </p> <p>I was fortunate enough to have had many conversations with my mom about it because the video they showed us was vague and had almost no viable information at all. In fact, I don't really remember that it had much of anything. But it was a big secret in school, we all thought it was sex ed, and I don't remember actually understanding it when we saw it, and I was an honors student... I don't know what the other 5th grade kids thought. My mom and I still talk about periods, though she's past menopause, but around the time I first had mine, she was having horrible problems with her own leading up to her menopause. My best friend and I also openly communicate about our periods, and I think that's so important that it shouldn't be something secret and guarded. </p> <p>Anyway, I'm really glad you've posted this for that reason. I've known girls who grew up in households where menstruation is a taboo subject. I know if I had just grown up with only my dad, I wouldn't have had any advantage at all when it came to my first period because he won't talk about it at all. He doesn't even tolerate it when I talk about the horrible cramps I get. This is a really good website, ignore the haters :) They just don't feel the feminine connection.</p> Wow, that video is so much more informative than whatever we got in elementary school. Now I’m only 23, so when I started my period for the first time, my mom was way past the napkin belt so she was good enough to tell me about it. Though the first day, I still had to ask a friend who had already had her period for a year before I started mine for some extra pads. My friend, one whom I’m very close to, still remembers when I gave her “the look” and I didn’t have to say anything, she just handed me a pad.

I was fortunate enough to have had many conversations with my mom about it because the video they showed us was vague and had almost no viable information at all. In fact, I don’t really remember that it had much of anything. But it was a big secret in school, we all thought it was sex ed, and I don’t remember actually understanding it when we saw it, and I was an honors student… I don’t know what the other 5th grade kids thought. My mom and I still talk about periods, though she’s past menopause, but around the time I first had mine, she was having horrible problems with her own leading up to her menopause. My best friend and I also openly communicate about our periods, and I think that’s so important that it shouldn’t be something secret and guarded.

Anyway, I’m really glad you’ve posted this for that reason. I’ve known girls who grew up in households where menstruation is a taboo subject. I know if I had just grown up with only my dad, I wouldn’t have had any advantage at all when it came to my first period because he won’t talk about it at all. He doesn’t even tolerate it when I talk about the horrible cramps I get. This is a really good website, ignore the haters :) They just don’t feel the feminine connection.

]]> By: jennifer http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-187837 jennifer Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:51:56 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-187837 <p>thank you for that. I'm trying to teach Autistic pre-teens about menstruation and those photos are very very helpful!</p> thank you for that. I’m trying to teach Autistic pre-teens about menstruation and those photos are very very helpful!

]]> By: Caspar. http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-184249 Caspar. Thu, 07 May 2009 23:59:10 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-184249 <p>Ok. This was just sick. Well, I guess it could be informativ and all that, but seriously? This is the internet, and not your personally diary. You're probably just trying to help out the kids, but this is just dragging it too far! I don't even know how I ran into this site, but one thing's for certain : I've seen more than enough :P</p> <p>Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to insult you, or being rude in any way, but this is just my opinion. If I were you I would seriously consider getting this removed.If the kids doesn't find any information about it on the internet, there's always other ways to find out. I guess it's good information though.. but let the teachers at school take care of that part!</p> <p>Caspar. By the way, excuse my bad english, I'm from Norway ;) But I think you got the point, eh?</p> Ok. This was just sick. Well, I guess it could be informativ and all that, but seriously? This is the internet, and not your personally diary. You’re probably just trying to help out the kids, but this is just dragging it too far! I don’t even know how I ran into this site, but one thing’s for certain : I’ve seen more than enough :P

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to insult you, or being rude in any way, but this is just my opinion. If I were you I would seriously consider getting this removed.If the kids doesn’t find any information about it on the internet, there’s always other ways to find out. I guess it’s good information though.. but let the teachers at school take care of that part!

Caspar.
By the way, excuse my bad english, I’m from Norway ;)
But I think you got the point, eh?

]]> By: Haylee http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-183451 Haylee Fri, 01 May 2009 04:54:34 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-183451 <p>Hi, i want to thank you for the info i just started my period and i am lost. CAN YOU EMAIL me some tips. and tell me why we have to go through this what is the point? thank you again.</p> <p>haylee</p> Hi, i want to thank you for the info i just started my period and i am lost. CAN YOU EMAIL me some tips. and tell me why we have to go through this what is the point? thank you again.

haylee

]]> By: Shanna http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-181981 Shanna Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:38:10 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-181981 <p>Alyssa: If your daughter is having spots show up at the back end, just beyond where the pad covers her undies, have her fold a small piece of toilet paper and place it where her skin meets (not "inside" her, but where the skin meets so the paper doesn't fall out). That will keep the menstrum from running down towards the back. I have saved many underwear (and especially bed sheets while I'm sleeping) by using that trick (wish my mom had told me when I was younger, 6 years of ruined sheets and panties!).</p> Alyssa: If your daughter is having spots show up at the back end, just beyond where the pad covers her undies, have her fold a small piece of toilet paper and place it where her skin meets (not “inside” her, but where the skin meets so the paper doesn’t fall out). That will keep the menstrum from running down towards the back. I have saved many underwear (and especially bed sheets while I’m sleeping) by using that trick (wish my mom had told me when I was younger, 6 years of ruined sheets and panties!).

]]> By: Sarah http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-170119 Sarah Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:41:01 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-170119 <p>I am a freshmen in high school right now and there was no dividing up the girls and the boys while we watch these videos. The guys all stared at all the girls after the video about periods and I thought that half of them where going to run out of the class run screaming. It was kinda funny. Lucky I was gone the day they showed the boys one I heard that it was quiet an event. Thanks for this thought it made me feel not as stupid about things of this subject matter.</p> I am a freshmen in high school right now and there was no dividing up the girls and the boys while we watch these videos. The guys all stared at all the girls after the video about periods and I thought that half of them where going to run out of the class run screaming. It was kinda funny. Lucky I was gone the day they showed the boys one I heard that it was quiet an event. Thanks for this thought it made me feel not as stupid about things of this subject matter.

]]> By: Gladys http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-129141 Gladys Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:40:32 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-129141 <p>I do not know your particulars, (age, culural, etc) but you did a woderful job explaining a subject that is difficult to say the least. You are commended for your resourcefulness (grape jelly, who'd thunk?) and narrative style.</p> <p>I will definitely use this for my granddaughters. The film is one that I watch when I was a younger. (53 now).</p> <p>Keep up the great work!</p> I do not know your particulars, (age, culural, etc) but you did a woderful job explaining a subject that is difficult to say the least. You are commended for your resourcefulness (grape jelly, who’d thunk?) and narrative style.

I will definitely use this for my granddaughters. The film is one that I watch when I was a younger. (53 now).

Keep up the great work!

]]> By: Chana Eliyahu http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-91275 Chana Eliyahu Thu, 29 May 2008 15:24:09 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-91275 <p>Wow, I can totally relate to your story about your Mom giving you that belt when you first got your period. So did mine! You can't imagine how I felt a few years later when I discovered that you can buy pads that stick to your underwear. I had been suffering for several years with that stupid, annoying, messy belt! My mother was always so behind the times! Just wanted to share that with you.</p> Wow, I can totally relate to your story about your Mom giving you that belt when you first got your period. So did mine! You can’t imagine how I felt a few years later when I discovered that you can buy pads that stick to your underwear. I had been suffering for several years with that stupid, annoying, messy belt! My mother was always so behind the times!
Just wanted to share that with you.

]]> By: Alyssa Moreno http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-72296 Alyssa Moreno Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:13:27 +0000 http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2007/12/15/menstruation-training-what-my-mother-couldnt-teach-me/#comment-72296 <p>My daughter just started her period a couple days ago. She knows what to do but she keeps complaining that her pad doesn't always work. She puts it in one spot where it covers up a blood spot on her panties. Then the next time there's a spot on the opposite side of her panties. I don't know what to do is the a problem with the brand, or her size, or something else. I don't know how to help her. What do you think the problem is?</p> My daughter just started her period a couple days ago. She knows what to do but she keeps complaining that her pad doesn’t always work. She puts it in one spot where it covers up a blood spot on her panties. Then the next time there’s a spot on the opposite side of her panties. I don’t know what to do is the a problem with the brand, or her size, or something else. I don’t know how to help her. What do you think the problem is?

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