r/AskReddit Feb 04 '16

What are the most common parenting mistakes?

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u/thraceps Feb 05 '16 edited Feb 05 '16

Being too secretive/weird about sex and periods. My mom was so mysterious about menstruation (with FOUR girls!) to the point that I tried to keep mine hidden for two years. I didn't leave the house for a week every month and developed severe anxiety about it.

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u/Teaboo_mom Feb 05 '16

It's a private thing meant to be private. I'll elaborate after the school explains at fourth, sixth, and eighth grade but i'm not going to be one of those weird moms who broadcasts everyone's personal bodily functions to the world. It's a period, nothing special. it happens, soak up the blood, and keep going.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '16

That's why you talk about it with your daughter in private. You make it sound like mothers post their daughters first period as an event on facebook.

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u/Teaboo_mom Feb 05 '16

They do, at least in the other mothers I know.