For my daughter — and for myself.
, advises openly discussing menstruation and other sex education topics with kids as early as they can talk. The complexity of the conversation, of course, will evolve with time as they grow. “With 5-year-olds, you’re just going to be like, ‘The blood helps create life, and that’s how we have babies’ and that kind of very basic stuff,” Dr. Lis says.
It’s important to share that when a period starts, it can come out looking different ways. Sommer’s book mentions that menstrual blood comes in all different colors — such as light red or brown. As a young person gets older and has more regular periods, Sommer adds, it’s important that they understand that too much pain and too much bleeding are not to be ignored.
“It served as a great tool for my daughter to refer to in her own time,” Amodio explains. After Amodio’s daughter read the book, the conversation of periods became more normalized in their house. Her daughter now shared when a friend had started their period or was having a rough day because of cramps and when her own period arrived for the first time.
Six months ago, Hillberg’s daughter started asking her mom to make her a period kit. Hillberg thought it was premature and shared that she hadn’t gotten her own period until she was 14. “But that was you, and everyone is different. I could have a different experience than you,” Hillberg remembers her daughter saying, which immediately changed her mind. “And I was like, ‘You are 100 percent correct. You are not me, and you might start tomorrow,’” Hillberg says.
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