She’s having her period. Though you begged her to shower, your tween daughter goes off to school, unbathed, smelling a little funky. You hope her classmates don’t notice. You cross your fingers she doesn’t become self-conscious and miss out on school activities. You pray she doesn’t think negatively about her period because of its strong smell. As a parent who wants to instill period positivity in your pubescent and newly menstruating daughter, it's important to help her mak

In times, before recorded history, before science and organized religion, menstruation was considered magic. How amazing for the females to bleed for days and live. How curious that the red flow occurred at nearly the same time every month. Much like thunder and lightning, a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, a flock of birds flying in formation – monthly bleeding was a natural, marvelous mystery.