To be p***** she made a big deal about something so trivial!

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Sat in a room with person A and B.

Person A and myself having a chat about our children and I told her a story of my son, when 4, once came to me with a box of tampons in the supermarket and said "do you need some more of these mummy"

This is where person B who wasn't even involved in said conversation comes into the conversation by saying "what the F**, why would he know what tampons were at 4 years old"

I explained that he had seen them at home, sometimes in my bedroom and sometimes in the bathroom.

She then went into a big rant about how she doesn't think it's suitable for children to see these things and there really is no need. I told her it's not something I have ever hidden in my house nor would I feel a reason to do so. I then left it at that, just a difference in opinion, surely?

Roughly 40 minutes later, person B suddenly says "ha I knew I was right!" I looked at her confused and she tells me that she asked on her group WhatsApp friends chat and they ALL agree with her about how it's wrong to have these on display to a child.

AIBU to be now really pissed off that she's made such a big deal over this -and would I be unreasonable to tell her to F off

Your friend is ridiculous but I wouldn't waste any sleep over it.

Yanbu. How very strange

She sounds like a twit. Yanbu.

Tell person B to fuck right off.

She needs to wind her neck in. Silly cow

mine are always on display all my friends and children know they are there for use if needed I cannot abide the whole hide them away shame thing

Although I do hide condoms and medication 😂

Madness. Her not you. Tampons aren't shameful.

What a load of shit. They are a normal part of life. A 4yo knows mummy needs them, they aren't reciting a death dirge begging Satan to save their soul.

I doubt a 4yo could say much about periods, and even if they can, GREAT! It's a normal bodily function.

Your friend is an arse.

I would just have laughed... At least your little boy will make a good partner, not afraid to buy sanitary products... Why should it be hidden? Of course her friends agreed with her.. Their her friends...

They're not their....

Silly woman. I'd not be inclined to see her much again!

By she sounds like a prized idiot. Does she have children yet? I sincerely hope if she does she doesn't act this way around them. Imagine growing up as the daughter of someone so embarrassed by a product half the population will probably use at some point during their lifetime.

Well she’ll be in a marvellous position if she’s ever in the market for a new partner. She can market herself as Ms Always Right.

YANBU mine live in the bathroom, I don't understand the hide in shame thing :-/

Yep, person B is an idiot.

What an idiot of course it’s ok that your 4 year old knows what a tampon is! It’s biology for heaven sake.
And people wonder why girls feel shameful about periods!!

My mum kept hers well hidden but my brother managed to find them and stick ears and noses on them to make a family of mice!

Yanbu. Either for having normal toiletries on display nor for thinking she isn't half staging a carry on for nowt!!!

At least when the child is older he can be advised that women and young girls have periods, and hopefully understand that this is perfectly normal. At a job where I managed an operating depot a few years ago, the woman who came to deliver sanitary protection for the ladies toilets was surprised at my response being that this was a perfectly normal thing, and that many other male managers she dealt with wondered why it was even provided.

Tough one. I don't agree with her, but I'm wondering - did she post for traffic on an international website? Sounds like you are all well matched?

I can’t imagine anyone reason why anyone shouldn’t know what sanitary products are. And a child seeing tampons as normal shopping is surely a good thing?

It’s far better than my three year old, who disappeared in Lidl, I found her a few seconds after panicking, child was crouched down amongst the beer, when she saw me she announced loudly, ‘I just looking for daddy juice mummy’. I wanted the ground to swallow me up.

Mummies tissues. No need to make
More of it, he's asking if you need more the same way he's probably picked up shampoo or oranges and ask if you need more the way they do- they're trying to help.

YANBU- would just say none of her business.

Person B is a twat. Please show her the responses then send her to counselling to address her warped view of female biology. Clearly, she has issues around shame.

As long as they aren't used tampons on display then she (and her WhatsApp group) are idiots. And she is an even bigger idiot for putting it up on her WhatsApp group to begin eith. However, there is no point in worrying about it.

How ridiculous. My 3 year old follows me to the bathroom. He will quite often get a tampon out of the bathroom drawer and say 'here's your tampon, mummy' whatever time of the month he doesn't really understand, he sees a thing, knows its name and knows that mummy sometimes needs them. Not a big deal. It's part of life.