To buy sanpro and leave them in the classroom

[HighwayDragon1]

I buy pads (just tesco value ones) and leave them in my classroom, in case any of them are caught short, I buy about one pack a month. The girls know where they are if they need them.

DP thinks it's weird, that the parents should buy them and it's not my responsibility. Now its not, but sometimes you just come on and school must be the worst place for it to happen.

It's not weird is it? How would you feel if your daughters teacher gave her a pad? Is it a line I've crossed? I'm questioning it now.

This is secondary school.

[DefinitelyNotElsa]

Sounds like great pastoral care to me. I've done similar several times (including on residential visits). I wouldn't want my students feeling uncomfortable or embarrassed.

[whyayepetal]

Hi OP. My dd1's Y10/11 form teacher did this - she had an "essentials" drawer which contained pads, nail varnish remover pads, hairbands/grips etc. The girls really appreciated it and thought she was a wonderful caring form teacher for doing it. I think it's a brilliant idea, and incredibly kind of you. That sort of support is so valuable.

[SoupDragon]

I would be surprised that any female would find this weird or crossing a line at all.

[3WiseWomen]

I have to say I'm surprised that nothing has been planned in the school to help with that sort of issues.

Agree this is a considerate thing to do in that case.

[frikadela01]

I wish I had a teacher like you at school. I can't imagine there are many women out there who haven't had the utter horror of coming on unprepared. In my eyes you're just showing female solidarity. It's why I always have a pack of tampons and pads in my drawer at work that is free for anyone to use in am emergency.

[VimFuego101]

I also think it's good for boys to see them there - shows them it's just an everyday thing, not some mysterious thing to be giggled about. Periods are part of life.

[IHaveBrilloHair]

Good idea, dd had a period incident this week, bad planning on her part, she has plenty of pads and tampons.

[Katedotness1963]

Not weird at all! Back in my high school days my periods were all over the place and I came on suddenly. It would have been great if a teacher had a few pads hidden in case of emergencies.

[HairySubject]

I think it is a lovely thing for you to do.

[Akire]

It's lovely - hate way we teach kids it's perfectly natural body function. Yet on other hand don't let them go mid lesson or more often to change. Or provide emergency supplies if needed. If boys had nose bleeds one Week out of four there would be boxes everywhere. Not oh well you should have brought your own tough!

Think toilets is good place to keep them. Hard to drag bag around with you if you have to go mid lesson or in p.E and not easy to try smuggle one up your sleeve or pocket. Never mind try get to cupboard then back to the bathroom.

[whatsoever]

Not weird, very kind.

[OohMavis]

I used to have to do the Walk of Shame to the school office and ask one of the receptionists for a pad. My mother didn't buy them for me, I had to use loo roll, but sometimes that just wasn't good enough. It was never given with kindness, more of a huff and a . Awful.

It's a good thing you're doing, keep doing it.

[madamginger]

I think it's a lovely thing to do, I have a stash at work, most of the women I work with are post menopausal but the few that aren't can help themselves if they need to. I use a mooncup so they are only there if I come on very unexpectedly

[Goingtobeawesome]

Lovely thing for you to do. I still remember the shame of going to school in a skirt I'd bled on the day before. No one at home to give a shit and just one more thing to be bullied about. I've told DD to ask at school if she ever forgets but I don't know that she would.

[Daryan]

In my school the tampon/towel machine was empty. We asked for it to be filled, but we were told someone had once emptied the machine of the items and thrown them all over the floor. Literally, once, sometime before we'd even joined the school, and that was it. Never refilled.

It wouldn't have even occured to me to ask a teacher, so I'd have been very grateful if one had de-mystified the whole shebang by telling us she had spares. I'd have felt looked-after. It''s easy to forget your own towels on a rushed school morning.

Yes, parents should buy them but a) some don't and b) they're easily forgotten. Even parents with the money might deny their child even needs them #carrie

[KinkyDorito]

It's nice of you, but you should have a well stocked school office/medical room where students can go.

I buy A LOT of tissues. I swear most of my students have permanent leaks.

[Stanky]

It's a very kind and thoughtful thing to do. I still remember a poor girl when I was at school, who bled very heavily all over the chair in class. I think that it might have been the first time she'd had a period, and she seemed to be frightened and didn't know what was happening. The teacher didn't do anything, and we went to lunch. Luckily another kinder teacher approached her, tied her blazer around her waist and escorted her to sort herself out.

[TaraCarter]

Not weird at all. I'm afraid that your partner's opinion reflects that he's a bloke and periods don't intimately affect him all day, one week in four. He simply has never been a 15 year old girl whose period has come early (or who ran out of towels) panicking in the toilet and he never will be.

It's not his fault, but it's an experience gap he nevertheless has.

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

I think it's nice.

Dd soaked through three pads at school the other day and came back soaked through her skirt as she was too scared to go and ask at the office.

[RoosterCogburn]

I do this too, in fact I have a bag filled with different sanitary products and brand new pants. I'd hate for a girl to ask me and me have to say that I didn't have anything that they could use.

[Movingonmymind]

Lovely and thoughtful. I fear for the dad of a friend of mine who could only just stutter out the word 'period' and said he 'can't be done talking about such things', he has 2 Dds. I hope they all gang up on him and stuff every room with Sanpro! Absolute dinosaur, honestly! I have dses but have never hidden my tampons pads etc. Think it's incumbent on all parents to normalise Sanpro for the next generation. Our parents sure didn't!

[lazyarse123]

I think it's a lovely thing to do.

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

I wouldn't have a problem with it. But I leave several boxes of different ones in my staff bogs because even grown women get caught short

[Movingonmymind]

I used to run organised races a lot and without exception, there would be all kinds of gels, drinks, plasters and Vaseline (sore nipples, which strangely no female runner I knew ever suffered from!) but never, ever any Sanpro! Yet about 20-60% of runners will be female. The number of times I had to run with huge applicator tampons sticking out of pockets/bra whatever to get me through a long run was ridiculous!

[SirVixofVixHall]

Really kind and caring. I'd be happy leaving my daughters in your care knowing you were so thoughtful and considerate.