Looking forward to getting your period

[ThorLyonsSalem]

I am doing some training modules in order to become a Girl Scout troop leader come the fall.  I was remembering the materials we are using now compared to when I was a kid (which was quite a long time ago now - ha ha ha).  There was one brochure that I remember coming across while doing a clear out, and also remembering that classic Judy Blume book Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. It's about girls getting their period and what is happening to your body if and when.  

Do girls now still look forward to it?  I remembered thinking way back when that I knew someday it would happen, but was I looking forward to it happening?  I don't think I was excited about it.  I just knew it would happen.  I also remember I knew a girl when I was in 5th grade asking me if I had gotten my period yet, I said no, she said she had already (mine would come in 6th grade about a year later I remember).  I wasn't jealous of her by any means, I guess I was just surprised to hear it.  Then again she was the only one I actually remembered talking about it with others. 

Do girls look forward to getting their periods still?  

[Carlston]

Ok, I read something today that I had never heard of before and was not ever expecting to hear. 

 

[ThorLyonsSalem]

The Judy Blume book was based on this group of girls who were in fierce competition (if that can exist) over which one will get their periods first.  In this book, it existed. But did anyone in real life? Because I have never encountered one who was, let alone be in competition to be the first one to get it. 

[basil67]

I haven't read the book, but it's been produced as a delightful 2023 Netflix movie.  In the movie, there was only one competitive girl.   She was queen bee and the others kinds went along with it. 

As for real life, my daughter is/was super skinny, so hers came later than many of her peers.  I can't say she 'looked forward' to getting her period.  But nor was she concerned about not getting it.   She knew the later start was related to her weight and that it would come when it was ready.  But she was always a sensible kid.    Much the same as my bestie in the 80's......she was about two years after us.    

[Els]

I don't know anyone who was looking forward to their period or who liked having it once they got it. In fact, it was something that most of us dreaded - not for any complex psychological reasons, mostly just because of the fact that menstrual cramps and dealing with a bleeding vagina sucks.

[Gina2005]

Why wouldn't any young girl want to get her period? 

Specially the first one, imagine being at class and completely unprepared for it and everything that means.

Maybe there are cultures where getting your first period means you are a woman, that's what comes to my mind.