![]() ![]() You might go months without any hint of it and then boom, red Niagara Falls. In the first few years, it’s common for your period to be irregular and unpredictable. We reached out to a doctor and a bunch of people with uteruses to get the lowdown on what it’s like to have a period - from puberty through menopause and everything in between. (And another thing: They’re not feminine hygiene products, they’re menstrual products.) There’s blood and pain and sometimes relief or sadness, and sometimes it’s all that at the same time. It’s not “Aunt Flo coming to visit,” “that time of the month,” or “shark week.” It’s a period. One way to shed this period taboo is to simply talk about it - call it what it is. Thankfully things are slowly catching up, but a lot is still left wanting. There are many societal, cultural, and religious customs across the globe saying what can and can’t be done during a period. Menstrual taboo has been a thing long before the 80s, though. If I can make it just a little bit easier, I will.Here’s a bit of trivia for ya: Courtney Cox was the first person to call a period a period on national television. ![]() She hasn’t gotten to the point where she’s asked to shave again - nor am I pushing her to do it again - but if she does, I’ll be teaching her how to use the kit.īecause growing up is hard. Heeding the warnings that kids tend to get infections from shaving because they’re not terribly good at it, I then picked up a grooming kit that was less than $25, with both an adjustable blade and a guard. The first time, I did the shaving to teach her how it’s done. ![]() More: I told my daughter she was overweight because someone had to This was because she’s a kid who is being made uncomfortable by something that doesn’t need to make her uncomfortable. This was not because of social media or her peers. This was not to make her look like something out of a porno flick. And while I don’t remember much about being her age, I do remember it being really freakin’ weird to have my body changing in a million ways that I couldn’t control. It’s exactly why I trim - well, that and the fact that long curlies getting stuck in the adhesive on the underside of a light-day pad is pure hell. “It feels weird,” was the answer, “and it gets stuck in my underwear.” So I asked the obvious question: “Why do you want to shave it?” Her response was pretty much, “Yeah, I know, so, uh, can we talk about shaving now?” More: One day my kids will thank me for making them take selfies with me That part wasn’t new to her she has several puberty books on her shelves, and I’d explained what pubic hair is the first time she found me trimming. ![]() Of course I launched into a litany of reasons that it’s perfectly normal, and she shouldn’t feel like she has to get rid of it, and no one should be seeing that part of her body right now but her and blah, blah, blah, insert droning mom voice here. Her request was simple: “Can I shave this?” she asked, pointing at her naked (hair-covered) crotch. Her hair had been filling in slowly for more than a year and had now reached a point where it was poking out all sides of her underwear. So when I got that scream from across the house, “Mom, can I get rid of my pubic hair?” wasn’t totally off-the-wall. We have a relatively open-door bathroom policy in our house, and my 10-year-old has walked in on me ‘scaping the pubes a few times over the years. I fall into camp two, someone who has trimmed the bush for years. More: What I was really thinking every time my parents spanked meīut before you start locking down all your kid’s gadgets, let me offer up a slightly less terrifying scenario, courtesy of my own bathroom.Ī new survey shows that 62 percent of women prefer to completely remove their pubic hair, while 84 percent say they do at least some grooming. The docs say younger girls are being pushed to go bare because of social media, peer pressure and even internet porn. Welcome to the new world order, where pediatricians are now seeing girls who’ve just hit puberty grooming their nether regions. ![]()
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