Excerpt From The Revised and Updated Edition of
My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“Your first period is the beginning of your journey to becoming a young woman. The average age for menstruation to start is twelve years old, although some girls start as early as eight or nine or as late as seventeen.”
The more aware your daughter is about what is going to happen to her body during this time, the less anxiety and discomfort she will have. This is a time to talk to your daughter about what will be happening to her body and emotions, and to help her embrace this time with grace. So many teenage girls view there period as something nasty and horrible. This is her womanhood that she is slamming!!
Explain to her that this is time where she will start maturing into a grown woman and it can be a beautiful process. First, the word period is not a great word to be able to embrace. My daughters starting calling it, their Moon. The Moon circles around the Earth in a twenty-eight-day cycle and most women have their menstrual cycle every twenty-eight days. That’s pretty special isn’t it? I think calling it our Moon, feels so much better and respectful during a time that is really special.
I hope you can start helping your teenage daughter view her Moon as a special time, where she can embrace her womanhood. If she can, it will help her develop higher self esteem, because this is something happening to her, and is a part of her. If she doesn’t like this part of her, it lowers her self esteem.
