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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daughter 15 bday today! Yeah! And got her period. Exciting and mixed emotions for her. However the message I gave her was that it’s exciting time and life moment but having period shouldn’t change your day to day. You can swim, laugh, cheer all the usual stuff.
   She got super upset and said I don’t understand.
   I see this so often especially thnx to social media- teens how act like life stops and they are “sick” for a week ewxh Month.
  I told her there’s no reason to believe she’ll have any problems and I’m here to help. 
   But how can I avoid playing into that period nonsense- while still being understanding. 
  What did most of you do or how did it go when your daughter got period?
Mine is a drama Queen - so that is our baseline.
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Don't be a jerk.

A) have some empathy. It's a huge, inconvenience change. And one she'll have for the next 40+ years. 
B) it DOES affect some people in a difficult way. My DD had 2 FULL periods each month until we got her on BC and then she had to deal with all the hormones of that (she's fine now). I had friends in HS that were nearly crippled a day/month with cramps. Literally. One would pass out from them.

Listen to her. Address any issues. Quit mocking or making light of it. 
(And FTR, my DD used tampons on her first period. But we talked about it a LOT in the few years leading up to it.)[/quote]

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