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

Living in a house with 5 women, he didnt get over it but he did learn to STFU about it

Vaginas don't seem to bother them so much when they can stick their dicks in them...

@Whatwouldscullydo

Living in a house with 5 women, he didnt get over it but he did learn to STFU about it

Vaginas don't seem to bother them so much when they can stick their dicks in them...

Yeah, funny that........

Thankfully BF has no such issues!

For all his faults do woykd always buy my tampons if shopping.

He doesn't care at seeing my pads hanging up drying either just as well as we have 2 dds

All my kids have known about them and what they are for as soon as they asked. Never shyed away from it. I would rather they know and sympathise than not understand and expect you to be superwoman all the timw

A friend of mine has suggested bringing up a conversation about leaving my bra to dry on the living room radiator just to see the horror in her face

Oh I just remembered another one! I'm on fire with these motherhood fails tonight 🤔 When my youngest was 2, she watched completely fascinated as I took a panty liner from the cupboard, peeled off the backing and pressed it into my panties. We continued to solve all the worlds problems as I finished and washed up and thought no more about it. I collected her from nursery a few days later, only to be told that when they had taken DD to use the bathroom they discovered she was wearing a panty liner. I've since had to move them because she loves wearing then as it's "what big girls wear"

Oh just you sound just like the sort of friend I'd love to have. I love making comments that go over ds head. Being overheard is just too funny though!

It’s people like friend b who cause problems for the rest of us! I was brought up by the generation who largely believed periods were shameful and absolutely not to be spoken about and it caused me a whole heap of problems as a teenager. Keep educating your ds op you’re right they’re wrong

Mine are in the bathroom on display to every one. My son once stuck all my pads on the walls as planes. Shes a dick op you are defo right.

There is no shame about periods. Half of the population either has had them, are having them or will have them. It is fine if boys and girls know about this reality.

@itsgettingweird I never say no to more friends - especially the ones who don't judge my parenting 🤣

What an idiot! Well now you can tell her you’ve asked munsnet and people agree with you ... bigger than her WhatsApp group!

@Whatwouldscullydo

Define on display?

Thet would make a weird garden ornament granted but A shelf in the bathroom is a sensible place for them isnt it?

😂😂😂

Love your username btw!

She'd have imploded if she knew what all I told my son at that age .. and that I have since started to tell my other 2 (still not 4 yet haha). I explained pads and tampons because he asked why I was bleeding. So I explained why I used them and why I bled. Because women's body's get ready to have a baby every month and if they aren't having a baby their body fixes itself for next month. Not horrifying. But accurate enough at that age.

“Mummies tissues!” I can imagine DS stuffing them up his nose - you can’t refer to them as that!
OP nothing wrong in your original post - people go a bit weird over bodily functions

All be suspicious but there seems to be about one thread a day from a new poster expressing outage at a friends reaction to a situation. Different scenarios- same drama?

I mentioned this to DP this morning (partly because he was getting on my nerves and nothing annoys him more than when I start a sentence with "so there's this mumsnet thread ..." )
I am cheating a bit because he was a care worker from 17 so he is squeamish about very little.

He rolls his eyes and tells me this story about one of his first jobs (22 years ago in rural Wales so extremely rare to have more than one Male care worker and most of the care homes were run by terrifying female nurses who when they instructed someone to straighten up and fly right people as far as 30 miles away would instinctively sit up straighter and apologise without knowing why) another young Male member of staff started one day and during this mentioned that he thought staff discussion over someone's period (dp tells me it was a small throwaway comment....the residents were of an age periods weren't an issue but a huge staff of almost all women...it happens) shouldn't be had in front of him as a man as he shouldn't be exposed to such things. Dp apparently sat in the room and was slightly askance when the boy suggested he should be given special consideration as the only Male and treated with more respect about periods

He was taken to task by a group of unimpressed (see above completely terrifying Welsh matriarchal nurses) and given the biological ins and outs , peppered with many Welsh "are you listening to me boy ? This is bloody natural this is don't be so soft ".

He said the boy looked white as a sheet after that verbal pasting. He also rolled his eyes and said even 20 odd years ago he wasn't taught it was shameful but it was part of the system that created new life.

@Shannith

I'm not a new poster. I've been on MN a long time but rarely post about much. My last posts I don't want to be linked to this one.

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