Are young women today taught ANYTHING about menstration?

Question

There are an awful lot of questions here about what should be common knowledge...who's to blame Mom or health ed classes? Maybe it is religion? How come so many don't know the most common things???

I am curious to know where girls get their information these days.

Thanks for sharing your experience of learning about menstruation. I am really surprised how glossed over it is. I was just struck by how many girls were asking silly questions in all earnestness.

Answer 1

I HAVE A 10YR OLD AND HER TEACHERS DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. SHE LEARNS MOST OF HER THINGS FROM HER FRIENDS WHICH IS THE WRONG INFO SO IT IS UP TO ME HER MOM TO ANSWEAR ALL HER QUESTIONS

Answer 2

my mom never told me anything. i actually got the talk from my boyfriend's mother officially about a month ago, and I'm 16. I learned everything about menstruation through friends and books that i could get ahold of when i was about 12 because my friend had started it. moms these days dont really tell their daughters about that kind of stuff, at least to my knowledge. i never learned anything thru sex ed except to be safe and use a condom. sex ed and parents dont really help their daughters and young girls anymore with their questions.

Answer 3

I am a freshman in college and i learned most that I know from friends. It may not help that I was absent the sex ed day in health class. My mom taught me a little but I have had to figure it out for my self.

Answer 4

Well i have been a pretty curious girl since I was really young so I kinda just learned things that way... and my mom baught me this book about "growing up" when I was like 10, so that probably helped. Also, I had access to the internet so I searched up alot of things that I was confused about.

Answer 5

There is more focus on "The Miracle of Life" which is a video we had to watch to find out Exactly how babies are made ie release of egg, what happens to the uterine wall in prep for baby, but they do not emphasize too much the ovulation process when a baby is not made. They do not talk about folklore.

My mother never spoke to me about it. I came in the room told her I was bleeding from you know where. She told me to speak up. Then pointed me to the pads--I read the directions--

Answer 6

We may joke more about body functions, but I don't think parents are any more comfortable talking about these topics then our parents or grandparents. We pass our discomfort from generation to generation. We are sure the girl is too young to know the truth - then all of a sudden you have a teenager who knows it all and doesn't want to listen. The window of opportunity has been lost.

Answer 7

im guessing the schools I mean i had the talk in school in 5th grade!!! and it wasnt much to talk bout though..I had the sex talk with my mom @ 9 though Sometimes i dont think the kids r listening now a days i mean im 16 yrs old and at 11 i got mine and I new what to do from tv shows on the O tv channel though. Plus my mom told me too!

Answer 8

In 5th grade we learned some what about our 'period' and they showed us stuff to use and such, and i don't know about other people, but my mom didn't really tell me about anything about that stuff. It was an awkward subject.
In eighth grade we had Sex Ed. and they talked more about STDs.
I also see that most kids these days are receiving books about your body and healthy ways of living.
So me, i got my info from pamphlets and books.

Answer 9

user-friendly appreciate could be shown to each physique. in spite of the undeniable fact that, I actual have observed many mothers and dads apparently instruct their boys to appreciate women people, yet frequently no longer different adult males. The opposite, women people respecting adult males, additionally does not look severe on the precedence record of many mothers and dads of daughters in keeping with what i've got seen in existence. Others at here have advised distinctive memories, so perchance it comes from residing in a extra classic area, yet women people and ladies i understand frequently do no longer appreciate adult males in any respect. So on the same time as i think of this is a sturdy thought, we would desire to constantly be coaching our young ones to appreciate anybody in spite of gender (interior of reason, of direction, there are people available who do no longer deserve appreciate era).

Answer 10

We do learn some stuff about it, but some girls are just too self consious to ask their doctors! Give them a break, they haven't been through this before and are just trying to find some support!

Answer 11

Y!A It is a pity, I think my sons are educated about that stuff more than some of the girls they know. They ask me a question I answer straightforward.