Sanitary towels for teens

Buttonmoons

Take no notice pullip!

My 5 year old, thinks she is hard done by if only gets 12hours of sleep, this morning I was kneeling over her poking her feet and legs with chopsticks as she wouldn't get out of her bed for school :rotfl: I'd love 12 hours of kip! I get 3 hours a day when I work (nightshift) and thats broken into 1hr nap and 2hrs after work, before getting her up for school.

When I was 16 I was working 12 hour days in a factory, for my mum to take all my money ....... those were t'days hah!

balletshoes

Reverbe wrote: »

Sorry I'm just someone with a work ethic.. wasting half a day in bed when there is so much to do, so much to get out of life and put back in.. just appalls me. IMO this kind of behaviour in teens is what leads to situations like the following.. in one of the offices where I work they were forever getting teens and school leavers into vacancies only to find they jack it in because as one of them told me he couldnt handle having to gte up and be in at \(the ungodly hour of) 9 am!!! Remember this is teens who can and should have a darn sight more energy than most of us..

I think a lot of teenagers sleep for their country on their days off, doesn't mean they don't have a strong work ethic. I worked on Saturdays from when I was 14, never had to be prodded to get up and get to work by 8.30am, worked overtime when asked, and did all my schoolwork/homework on time too. I have not had any time unemployed since I was 16 and just out of school.

On Sundays as a teenager I didn't usually surface until around noon .

tiff

There is a biological reason why teens need more sleep

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7932950.stm

Its been going on for centuries, they dont always have to be indulged but its for each parent to judge.

thegirlintheattic

Try tampons much better.

Slightly off topic - I didn't realise you could still buy Dr White's (those pads with hooks for a belt!) but Lil Lets still sell them!!!

janninew

Buttonmoons wrote: »

When I first started my mum gave me pads and I hated them, they didn't stick to your pants properly, and it felt like it was sticking out the back, not to mention the smell (and you can totally smell it on other people if they are wearing a pad) and the mess.

I swapped to tampons and never looked back. I hated having to wear pads after giving birth.

So much easier, pop it in and away you go!

You sound the same as me, I used pads for my first period and was disgusted with them! I also noticed the 'odour' and was paranoid that other people would to, I was forever changing them to try and stay fresh. Plus the thought of blood being rubbed into your bits (sorry for tmi!) really grossed me out! The only time I felt clean was straight after a bath.

Luckily we live in a world where we have choice though, and I think its a personal choice each female has to make. My Mum never got on with tampons, but she bought them for me and never influenced my choice.

Emmarillo

Back in the late 80's you could buy a perfumed sanitary towel, it had a really strong sickly smell. A girl in my class used to use them (I only know because my mum bought me some once, and I hated them) and the smell gave me the same headache that car air fresheners do. Nothing like drawing attention to the fact you've got your period!

Torry_Quine

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Try tampons much better.

Slightly off topic - I didn't realise you could still buy Dr White's (those pads with hooks for a belt!) but Lil Lets still sell them!!!

Gosh, I can't imagine why anyone would use these out of choice!

janninew wrote: »

You sound the same as me, I used pads for my first period and was disgusted with them! I also noticed the 'odour' and was paranoid that other people would to, I was forever changing them to try and stay fresh. Plus the thought of blood being rubbed into your bits (sorry for tmi!) really grossed me out! The only time I felt clean was straight after a bath.

Luckily we live in a world where we have choice though, and I think its a personal choice each female has to make. My Mum never got on with tampons, but she bought them for me and never influenced my choice.

Never been aware of an odour from myself or indeed anyone else. :eek:

janninew

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Gosh, I can't imagine why anyone would use these out of choice!



Never been aware of an odour from myself or indeed anyone else. :eek:

Maybe I just have a sensitive nose, but blood smells quite strongly to me and makes me feel sick! I'm just not good with blood full stop!

muckybutt

Its a different subject I must admit, however can I just point out to you ladies....please please dont put wipes or towels down the toilets.

Hopefully you dont but there are some ladies that make my life a mysery by doing exactly that.

They cause 100's of pounds worth of damage to the sanitary system by either blocking up the sewer or blocking up waste macerators, the latter cost's sometimes £1000's of pounds to repair and or replace.

I am a maintenance engineer and it's me that gets the call to unblock or shift ( for want of a better phrase ) your !!!! ! the number of towels / wipes and tampons I pull out is sometimes beyond a joke. Sewer systems are just not designed to take these products away, thats why sanitary bins are provided in many places, please bear a thought for others when you use these products and dispose of them in the proper bins, if there is no bin then wrap it / them up and take to a bin elsewhere.

Thank you.

Hermia

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Never been aware of an odour from myself or indeed anyone else. :eek:

Me neither! I've occasionally smelled a fishy smell coming off a woman (presumably from an infection) but never blood. If someone is hygienic and changes regularly I can't see why they would smell. I hate tampons as I can always feel them. They are in the right place, but my womb tilts backwards which seems to cause problems. My mum and aunts (who also have backward tilting wombs) have similar problems.

I also used to sleep 12 hours a night as a teenager, but I grew out of it. I personally think sleep is a valid use of time as anything else. As long as it doesn't cause problems in your general life.