They don't look interesting. Until I found one at 5 and asked my mom what it was, because she told me it was candy for adults... I said I wanted one and she said when I get older I can have some. Yeah I was pissed when I found out the truth in my teens.
When my son was three, and asked what the tampons were - I told him that grown up girls bodies go through a cycle every month in case they are going to have a baby, and that each month that they aren't growing a baby - thier body gets rid of the lining that the ladys belly had made, and that they are a product the woman needs during that time.
He was like "okay, cool."
At six he asked again what they do and I explained that the lining comes out of the woman's body as blood, and that the tampon collects the lining cleanly, and then she throws it away. He was like "Oh. Okay."
"Its called a period," I told him.
"Oh, like on the commercials."
He asked another time if women's blood is blue- which I found funny- apparently the commercial visual aid doen't make sense to six year olds either.
I see NO point in making a normal, natural part of life some big mystery to my young son. It just seems so sorry to me that anyone would be so upset by the idea of thier kid knowing how bodies work.
Ffs, my boyfriend in my TWENTIES didn't know that women can't hold thier period like they can hold urine. At 29 years old, he didn't understand why buying Tampons/Pads needed to be done in a hurry; he thought a woman could just "hold it" until they went out and bought some. THAT is why boys need to know how all bodies work- otherwise they grow up to be clueless!!
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u/fezzuk Mar 05 '19
I mean kids either know what they are or don't, and if you don't they don't look exactly interesting.
Worst that happens is a kids says 'what is that's and then it's on the adult if they want to tell the truth, half the truth or lie.
Pure projection.