Anonymous wrote:DD always had white shorts in her kit. The appropriate size tampon changed right before the game solves the problem. Who runs around wearing pads anyways?

Eleven year olds who get their first period the night before a game.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a deeply strange thread. I’m unclear as to why parents or a girl can’t figure out how to have the kid wear a pad or a tampon during her period. In the very unlikely event that a girl unexpectedly has a bleed through with a white uniform, hopefully it could easily be handled by a quick mention during a substitution. Seems like the odds of white shorts causing embarrassment would be minuscule.

Says the dad.

Well, this dad (and probably most) says that dad is an idiot.

Especially the part where he says if a girl has a bleed through with a white uniform, "it could easily be handled by a quick mention during a substitution."

WTF!?!?!?!?!?

How's that supposed to work exactly? Coach takes her out of the game and then the coach - or a teammate - says "Hey, you're leaking a little."

Then what?

She runs around to the other sideline, has her parent take her to the car, gets her spare shorts, then runs to the port-a-potty to put a new tampon in and change shorts?

Sure, that sounds easy enough. Not traumatic at all for a teenager to experience that in the middle of a game.

This reminds me of the time my wife and I took our son and his buddy carpooled with us to a game. We'll called him Joe. They were U11 at the time and at some point, Joe asks to get subbed out, he sprints to the portable bathroom and has explosive diarrhea. Let's just say we didn't send him back to the team's bench area. What a mess. The team's kit was all white.

This is why we ordered dark shorts for our team of u12 girls. It's traumatic if it happens even once. It's super traumatic if everyone on your team and the opposing team knows about it.

This happened to my daughter during a game. She got her period 1 day before her 11th birthday. She was young and small, so tampons were not an option for her at that time. She was just too uncomfortable wearing one. So being the anxious mom that I am, I bought her Thinx to wear with her white bottoms.
They didn’t work. It was really hot and she was sweating, and I think she even poured cold water on herself, but I watched a slow orange tint spread all across her shorts.
She didn’t notice. Ref didn’t notice. I guess her coach (male) didn’t notice. It was horrifying (for me). She was a trooper! And today, I don’t even think she remembers it.
My guess about the Thinx is that you aren’t supposed to get them wet? Not sure. But, definitely a fail.

PP, thanks for explaining your point of view.

We are all different, and if you've never had the horrible experience of leaking through a tampon and large pad in less than hour, you are lucky. This happens to some of us even as an adults.

By the way, I've been at soccer tournaments when I noticed that one member of a girls' team is wearing dark shorts for the afternoon game. It happens and not everyone buys two pairs of each color of game shorts.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a deeply strange thread. I’m unclear as to why parents or a girl can’t figure out how to have the kid wear a pad or a tampon during her period. In the very unlikely event that a girl unexpectedly has a bleed through with a white uniform, hopefully it could easily be handled by a quick mention during a substitution. Seems like the odds of white shorts causing embarrassment would be minuscule.

Says the dad.

Well, this dad (and probably most) says that dad is an idiot.

Especially the part where he says if a girl has a bleed through with a white uniform, "it could easily be handled by a quick mention during a substitution."

WTF!?!?!?!?!?

How's that supposed to work exactly? Coach takes her out of the game and then the coach - or a teammate - says "Hey, you're leaking a little."

Then what?

She runs around to the other sideline, has her parent take her to the car, gets her spare shorts, then runs to the port-a-potty to put a new tampon in and change shorts?

Sure, that sounds easy enough. Not traumatic at all for a teenager to experience that in the middle of a game.

I'm the (female) poster everyone is excoriating on here. While I still think this is a preventable problem for the vast majority of girls given the variety of options available today, including tampons, pads, and thinx, I acknowledge after reading the two threads everyone's cycle is different and a kid's period could come on so suddenly that she might not be prepared. One word in my defense: my comment about handling thing with a quick mention during a substitution were made in response to a poster that said that as a referee, she'd have to pull a girl out of a game if she had a bleed through. That would be truly terrible, and I'm sure could be handled in a way less likely to embarrass the girl, like a quiet word to the girl or coach during a substitution.

Carry on.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a deeply strange thread. I’m unclear as to why parents or a girl can’t figure out how to have the kid wear a pad or a tampon during her period. In the very unlikely event that a girl unexpectedly has a bleed through with a white uniform, hopefully it could easily be handled by a quick mention during a substitution. Seems like the odds of white shorts causing embarrassment would be minuscule.

Says the dad.

Well, this dad (and probably most) says that dad is an idiot.

Especially the part where he says if a girl has a bleed through with a white uniform, "it could easily be handled by a quick mention during a substitution."

WTF!?!?!?!?!?

How's that supposed to work exactly? Coach takes her out of the game and then the coach - or a teammate - says "Hey, you're leaking a little."

Then what?

She runs around to the other sideline, has her parent take her to the car, gets her spare shorts, then runs to the port-a-potty to put a new tampon in and change shorts?

Sure, that sounds easy enough. Not traumatic at all for a teenager to experience that in the middle of a game.

I have bought my daughter the thinx underwear

Anonymous wrote:My girls are still younger but I’m glad their club has black and red shorts. I wonder if that’s because our club is mostly run by women.

White shirts are bad enough, I feel like I’m constantly putting stain remover on them even though I try to have my girls change right after their games. There should be a different default color for away games, like a camouflage with the colors of grass, dirt, and fruit punch.

Lol. Yes. Soccer camo!

My girls are still younger but I’m glad their club has black and red shorts. I wonder if that’s because our club is mostly run by women.

White shirts are bad enough, I feel like I’m constantly putting stain remover on them even though I try to have my girls change right after their games. There should be a different default color for away games, like a camouflage with the colors of grass, dirt, and fruit punch.

Our coach for basketball lets the girls wear the dark shorts with either shirt, white or navy. He has 2 daughters



Accidents happen- even to me and I'm 45.

Anonymous wrote:It's not only that, and perhaps I am addressing an elephant in the room, but they also become see through when wet, which is also a source of embarrassment particularly for girls. I imagine ot os awkward for coaches too. It makes total sense just to do away with white shorts. There is really no good reason NOT to

+1

I'm 47 and I wouldn't want to wear white shorts because (a) there's no way I could keep them clean, and (b) the blood issue. Ugh.

It's funny that this topic came up. My son and daughter both play on their high school soccer teams. The boys have white kits with white shorts and the girls have one pair of shorts - dark with a thick white stripe to be worn with either jersey. I was just thinking the other night about how much I appreciate this!

It's not only that, and perhaps I am addressing an elephant in the room, but they also become see through when wet, which is also a source of embarrassment particularly for girls. I imagine ot os awkward for coaches too. It makes total sense just to do away with white shorts. There is really no good reason NOT to