AIBU to be shocked at the school

[wonderingwendy]

handing out my 11 year old dd tampons ?
i was really angry .
she knows all about periods and we have a very open relationship ,she has sanitary towels and that is the best option for me and her i believe
im just shocked as to how my little girl would even manage to get a tampon inside her .
the teacher gave it to them and they weren't even in a sex education class.

I not even sure why you are so offended.

she doesn't have to use them.

I started at 10 and was using tampons at 11 , whats the big deal, and it is her choice not yours.

OP, I'm glad you talked to your daughter again - it must be hard to have not had that talk yourself when you were growing up.

I started my period at 11 but had friends who'd started at 9 or 10 (yes, 9!). My mum had suggested both options to me but I couldn't get the hang of tampons and just refused to go swimming that first year. However, my period got so heavy I ended up needing to use both (and thank goodness for super and long options!).

I think if I were talking to my daughter I'd stress that they're very handy, but that you should be very careful how long you wear them, and that you'll probably need a liner as well. (I never wore tampons at night and I could never wear them alone.) Also, every girl is different - I still don't love the feel of tampons and switched back to pads only once I went on birth control in my 20s.

FFS this is ridiculous. As a child, an 11 year old (ten years ago eek)I have no fear of tampons and knew how they worked. I had looked at the little booklet that and with my mums and was intrigued! I wore pads once, moved straight on to tampons.

You've passed your hysterical reaction on to your daughter.

I'm with the majority here, the OP was being unreasonable and irrational but seems to have remedied the situation now to some degree.

I used tampons from the start and my Mum explained it all to me both before and when my periods started. I did the same for my DDs and one chose to use towels for a while to start and then switched to tampons, the other went straight to tampons. It was their decision. I did suggest the mooncup because I had used one for the last few years of my fertility but they refused to entertain the idea as it was 'yucky'!