Girls- periods and sex ed

[Nicola]

My mum only really went over basic stuff with me like what to do when I first start it and stuff but my school didn't talk about it enough I think. Not in enough depth anyway.

there was nothing i didn't understand, i wish they explained ovulation more though. my mum didn't really mention it and i had no sisters so i was ******** it
as for sex it's really quite simple, people learn about it really early nowadays but i think some things we were shown were unnecessary (cartoon rabbits having sex....) when we all pretty much knew everything already. try add ovulation in maybe? you probably will

our toilets had a bin in every second toilet, why would people get embarassed? all (unless they have something wrong with them) girls get their period, i'd be more embarassed if i didn't. you can't always predict, even after so many years mine isn't always the same time as usual but keeping note on your calender is a good tip to include

Ovulation definitely wasn't explained enough to me so I didn't really know what was going on there.

How about emergency pads/tampons? I know some teachers do that at a certain age group, they have emergency pads and tampons in a drawer and tell the girls in sex ed class that if they ever need one, to go and get one, they don't need to ask. Would that help? Would you ever take one? I know a few instances in my life when I would have really needed that.

They used to keep them at the reception at my school they most likely had them in the nurse's office aswell but I always went to the reception if I didn't have anything on me. It was slightly awkward if there was other people in the reception though.

[wiktoria]

I don't think our parents should say anthing about sex because it's very, awkward.
It's better to know more of teachers than parents, less weird.

I agree with this I don't talk to my mum about sex because it would be quite akward. In year 6 (when I was 11 or 12) we had to watch a woman giving birth which was quite extreme and cartoons having sex, don't think there was any need for it.

[lorren]

when my school taught me it (year 6) i was so scared about telling my mum LOL but tbh its no biggy! and it pisses me off how you have to go to the nurse incase!! my school has only bins, but its like ew they're gross;l my school sucks.

[,Lexiilu]

I don't think our parents should say anthing about sex because it's very, awkward.
It's better to know more of teachers than parents, less weird.

agree xox

we have bins in every stall
and i guess i really learned enough in health but i agree, ovulation wasnt taught well

[TheEclipse]

I didn't mind Mum telling me about periods and stuff, and actually she would tell me little bits and pieces whenever I asked from the age of 2 or so! So I never had a disturbing Talk with her.

[Black_Apalachi]

You didn't ask anybody about periods when you were 2.

[TheEclipse]

I knew a lot by three because Mum was pregnant with my brother. I knew about periods (in that, adult women get them and you bleed from the vagina once a month) by the age of 5. I figured out sex for myself before I started school because I knew that babies are in Mum's womb, Mum has a vagina, Dad has a penis, babies are made from eggs and sperm, how do they get together? It was all through just general conversations and inference.

But I was speaking in full sentences at 2 and I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't see mum changing a pad in the toilets (since she had to take me into the cubicle with her since I was, yaknow, 2 years old) and I most likely asked her what that was. I can't remember NOT knowing things.

[N-Dubz]

how much it was gonna ******* hurt wouldn't have gone a miss.