Re: How should girls be initially taught about
PSquared - your story is just way too cute. 
Okay my turn: I got it when I was 11. I had pains in my lower back and totally clueless. I had never heard of periods/menstruation before. I bled for 2 days straight and did absolutely nothing about it. Menarche wasn’t very heavy for me - very light bleeding the first time. Anyway, second day I came home from school and my mom had detected stains on my PJs. Talk about embarrassment. To add insult to injury, she started giving me a lecture on how unhygienic I must be to go around for 2 days without wearing a pad.
Anyway, then she told me all about it and how everyone gets it, every single woman and I was like even aunties and moms? My mom was like 