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Sanitary towels for teens
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My daughter likes the Asda Teen pads, she's tried others but always goes back to the Asda ones.
I can still remember my mum making a big show of buying me the necessary items and giving me my own space in the airing cupboard although things like that weren't really talked about.
I must have only been about 8 or 9 when she bought me a belt and packet of Dr Whites, they were huge!
A year or 2 later she bought me the newest fad, I think they were called Nikini pants or something like that, they were like knickers with press studs to hold the pad in place but I never got to try them as by the time I needed them she had used them and they had gone out of fashion.
I was never allowed tampons so didn't try them until I was married and now need both at once
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I didn't encourage the use of tampons very early on as, like Pigpen, I wanted them to learn about their flow etc. but a few months in was happy to let them try and according to DD2 Tampax Pearl transformed her life
My mother always told me that wearing a tampon 'feels like sitting on top of a mountain' and wouldn't let me try :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
They do however wear towels at night, as do I, as I think it is too long to go without changing a tampon.
As for how you approach it, I can thoroughly recommend this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Book-Non-fiction-Claire-Rayner/dp/0590556088/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1313874180&sr=8-6
It's a bit old fashioned but covers the basics in Clare Rayner's indomitable style, straightforward and covers everything from hair and BO all the way through to sex.
As I started my periods aged 11, from when they went into Yr 6 both DD's had a small make up bag (that they had chosen) at the bottom of their schoolbag containing a small sachet of wipes, spare knickers and a sanitary towel. It was enough to get them through a day if anything started at school and they were told that if necessary they should wrap their marked knickers in toilet paper and dispose of them in the sanitary bin. It didn't happen to either but they found it comforting to know that if needed it was there.
Thanks for this post, I hadn't really considered the practical side of things. DD11 is away on scout camp, her Dad is with her but she refused to take any sanitary towels just in case she starts, so Dad had to put them in his backpack!
She starts secondary school in a couple of weeks so the tip of wipes and spare knickers is good, thanks.“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” - Dave Ramsey0 -
My sister puts the tubes from her hamster cage in the dishwasher. Now that is just gross.My friend ave her daughter a mooncup when she was about 12 or 13 and she was horrified.. she wanted to go swimming with her friends.. I think in the end she got some organic cotton tampons.. but it amuses me still.
OH was horrified when he realised I do actually wash my mooncups in the dishwasher with the rest of the pots and pans! And I have one in the cutlery drawer lol..“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” - Dave Ramsey0 -
VfM4meplse wrote: »Why???! :eek:
Why not? They come out nice and clean just like my dishes..
My sister puts the tubes from her hamster cage in the dishwasher. Now that is just gross.
With the pots or on their own?
I dont see the issue.. but I have washed the potties in mine to.. NOT with the pots I might add.. lol.. I did run the dishwasher through a clean cycle afterwards too.LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
With the pots or on their own?
I dont see the issue.. but I have washed the potties in mine to.. NOT with the pots I might add.. lol.. I did run the dishwasher through a clean cycle afterwards too.
With the pots knowing my sister. I just wouldnt want hamster poo and wee floating around with my dishes, bit different with the mooncup I suppose.“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” - Dave Ramsey0 -
With the pots knowing my sister. I just wouldnt want hamster poo and wee floating around with my dishes, bit different with the mooncup I suppose.
Are you my brother? lol.
I don't think anything I do would surprise him anymore
I haven't got hamsters though. Or a dishwasher anymore, boo hoo
He ask me if I was trying to cure ham once... turns out it had gone a bit crispy and he was being facetious Mum of several with a twisted sense of humour and a laundry obsession:o
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I'm not surprised. How unhygenic.. if I were him id eat out in future or use disposable tableware..._pale__pale__pale__pale__pale_ (doesnt seem to be a PUKE icon) mind you thanks for this post. you have saved me the cost of dinner..:cool:My friend ave her daughter a mooncup when she was about 12 or 13 and she was horrified.. she wanted to go swimming with her friends.. I think in the end she got some organic cotton tampons.. but it amuses me still.
OH was horrified when he realised I do actually wash my mooncups in the dishwasher with the rest of the pots and pans! And I have one in the cutlery drawer lol..What Would Bill Buchanan Do?0 -
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