To think “period cookies” is ridiculous…

I bought my DD a pretty necklace when she started (partly because I thought it was hilarious that the model name was 'go with the flow') - I think there's nothing wrong with a minor 'coming of age' gesture. But cookies shaped like sanitary pads - UGH!!

I can't imagine any teenage girl wanting attention drawn to starting their periods.

Seems as silly as a "my first wet dream" cake for an adolescent boy 🤔😀🎂💦
Having said that, I once made an embryo cake for my sister in law when she was pregnant 🤔😀 It still gets talked about 😂

Yeah, they're also known as hash cakes.

Not convinced that they'd go down well at school, though. Not with the staff, at any rate.

Absolutely ridiculous idea - is this another American abomination like baby showers and school proms?

I grew up abroad, in a tiny country where we were a decade or so behind culture/fashion until we got cable tv, and periods weren't directly addressed unless you had cool, or younger western parents. It was definitely something we heard the older girls chat about in school, that you couldn’t use tampons until you’d had sex. Luckily I also gained access to magazines like J17 etc, where lI found most of the answers to my questions!

I thought they would be cookies laced with some kind of drug to help with period pain.

Oh god, don’t put these ideas into the world - some idiot will think they are brilliant ideas! 🤣

The day there is a first wet dream cookie, I'll get on board with period ones.

Omg I would have died at that age, but ai guess some families might be less prudish than mine, so I think, yes why not, if you are bringing your daughter up to be unashamed, not embarressed about her body and proud to be a woman then I love this. However, you ahould know your child and if she will find this mortifying or empowering..

My lovely granddaughter had her first period while she happened to be staying with us. I asked if she’d like to go out for a pizza to mark the special occasion and she was very happy! We took her (step) grandad as well, but we didn’t tell him why we’d suddenly decided to go out and it wasn’t mentioned in front of anyone else. I think there’s a middle ground.

My mind is clearly different to others, I read the title and thought it was going to be someone recreating Victorian recipes.

There is someone online that does that with 1950s recipes... lots of weird jellied salads lol.

When I saw the title my initial reaction was "absolutely nothing wrong if you decide to save your favourite cookies to have when your body decides it's time for renovation". Then I read to contents and almost puked in my mouth! 🤮😂

Reduclious what next first time sex cards.
Congratulations on getting your first shag.
Happy period day biscuits ever month.
Welldone card and cookies for growing pubes.
Maybe a wanker drink and a cum covers tissues for all first time masturbation.
Its like having a party every time you go up a size in shoes.
The worlds gone mad.

It’s the “anything for attention and social media likes” world we live in. That’s the sad thing, I bet it’s less about supporting the girl starting her periods and more about the instagram photos.

Gross

I see it as the intense over buying culture we are in

easter baskets
christmas Eve boxes
prom extravaganza
sweet sixteen
baby showers
gender reveal parties
period gifts …

anything to make us feel we need to buy more shite and spend more money we don’t have

Er... I started my periods in 1987 and the notion that 'tampons aren't for virgins' was something we found hysterically funny and outdated. Did you never read teen magazines?! They were full of adverts for tampons and there was a Lil-lets ad which made a big deal of the fact that non-applicator tampons could be hidden in your hand when you had to leave the classroom to go to the loo. I used tampons from the age of about 12/13 and so did loads of my friends. My sister used them as a teenager in the 70s.

Ffs! Why do we need period cookies anyway, let alone graphic ones?

I remember it well, that horrible lingering dull ache ❤️

Me too. Currently clutching a hot water bottle waiting for the cramps to pass. Please can someone make these?

They didn’t all say no, I remember the post.
The idea of a sanitary towel being depicted in cake form isn’t appealing at all though.

Not my thing, but I wouldn't clutch my pearls over it really. One of my best friends is a nurse and I've helped her make a chocolate cake for her colleague that was based on the Bristol Stool Chart, so I can't get stressed about a cookie with a tampon on it or whatever.

During the recent thread where someone wanted to buy her daughter a necklace with a red stone in it to commemorate her first period, I thought that was utterly cringe. I loathe all that some po-faced, earnest bullshit about celebrating fertility and the power of wombs and aren't-vulvas-brilliant etc - I invariably think 'It's biology, not a super power, so calm the fuck down'.

But while Congratulations On Your Period cookies are not something I'd ever consider purchasing myself, I think they're at least a) a sugar-based snack, which I would never turn down while on my period, and b) mildly humorous/ironic.

Indeed. My mother (b.1937) used to make fun of her older sister (b. 1932) to me and my sister (b. late 1960s) before we even got our periods because our aunt had refused to use tampons from the outset.

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