10 year old just doesn’t care about period
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Anonymous
I've never heard of Thinx before. Do you wear them in addition to pads? They come in child sizes? |
Anonymous
Fewer than 10% of US girls start menstruating before age 11. See Chumlea WC, Schubert CM, Roche AF, et al. (January 2003). "Age at menarche and racial comparisons in US girls". Pediatrics. 111 (1): 110–3. She is definitely an outlier. That is not an insult, just a fact. She is very young and no surprise she does not want to deal with this or think about it. |
Anonymous
| All my underwear are black because my flow can be unpredictable |
Anonymous
| Please buy the poor girl some good, cotton black underpants. Jesus, be her friend here and her mother. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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Also teach her to rinse them in the sink in cold water as soon as she takes them off. Then wring out and put in laundry (obvs not for days).
I’m old but my iud almost got rid of my period. Almost. Also I’m gross. |
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Buy darker colored underwear OP. 10 is young, almost too young to deal with this. Unfortunately it's up to you, and up to you to work with her. They do still thin "super" pads that might be better and work better.
I started at 11 and my mom had prepared me (because she started then too), but I was still too embarrassed to tell even good friends because they started so much later. I think it made me really disinterested in sex and boys though, so much pain and work so early. |
Anonymous
Agree. I was 13. 7th grade. I can’t imagine it at 10/4th grade. I would not have been ready. I used to hate taking baths then. |
Anonymous
Hopefully not the kitchen sink... |
Anonymous
| I'm completely amazed at how different the pads are these days from when I was a middle/high schooler. Back then, they were like paperback books, and I was always leaking all over everything. Nowadays, they're so, so thin - you'd think they would be even less absorbent, but they're SO much better! My 13 yo has never had any stains on her underwear or pants, even though she says she has a really heavy period. Oh, how I wish I had had these pads as a teen. |
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Is it from pads leaking or from her period starting before she puts a pad on? I agree with PP that absorbency is really good on the thins now and with wings, a young girl should not be having leakage.
My girls are not super regular and have problems seeing signs their periods are coming. I beg them to wear pantyliners or dark underwear when the timing gets close! |
Anonymous
If 9% of the population does x, it's not an outlier. Plus how is it relevant to OP's question anyway? |
Anonymous
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It doesn't matter if she is an outlier or not. At 10, she has period and needs to learn to deal with it whether she is ready or not.
However...OP - buy her some black period underwear. For some reason, my mom wouldn't buy me colored underwear until I got to high school. However, I had nearly 3 years of having a period under my belt by that point. Scrubbing stains out of underwear is just not something a 10 or 11 year old wants to do. I ruined countless pairs of underwear. Not sure why my mom didn't just buy me 5 or 6 pair of black underwear and clue me into the period underwear thing. |
Anonymous
| I am a grown adult and still occasionally get leaks onto my underwear. It might not be that she's lazy. In any event, I now wear black underwear on my heaviest days so there's no more issue with stains. |
Anonymous
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its not that she does not care but it could be a possibly that her flow is very heavy...
also do not get upset about this she is only 10 be her mom buy her more undies that she will use when her monthly arrives we all have the ugly period undies stashed away and teach her this |