A mom took to Reddit to ask if she's in the wrong for 'exposing' her stepson to her stepdaughter's period after grandma flipped out.
and receiving male- or female-specific guidance on adolescence. And if you happened to be in the boys' class, it's doubtful the curriculum included anything on. That's the way it should be, according to many Baby Boomers. But one stepmom definitely disagrees and recently took to Reddit to detail butting heads with her own mom over the issue.
Timmy_94 replied,"I just said, 'It's not an illness. He's learning about it in school. He needs to know periods are a thing.'" "She feels it's unnecessary that he should SEE the pads in the bathroom garbage bin," the OP wrote."We had a little bit of an argument and left it at that. My mom says my brother never knew when I was on my period, because it had nothing to do with him.
"No, no adult told our son his sister started menstruating," the OP wrote."His sister did, because he wanted to know from her why he wasn't allowed to take a bath after her." Redditors replied in droves, and the post has racked up nearly 700 comments.in her way of 'protecting' men from being exposed to women's health. Your son will grow up much more well adjusted if you treat them like normal occurrences.
A third commenter noted that having such knowledge can make men more compassionate."A male coworker of mine has four or five sisters, and he's the only boy. He calls it 'strawberry week' when the women in the office have their period, and if it becomes known to him that someone in the office has their period, he brings in chocolate for them. It's super sweet and goes to show that men don't have to be grossed out by periods and that it can just another fact of life.
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