When I had my first menstrual cylce, I was 11 years old. I was at home and my best friend Shelly had come over to play. As most girls did, my friend went to the bathroom with me. When I pulled my bottoms down my friend said, "look you hit puberity!" We were both excited because I was the last one of my group of friends to start my period.
My dad was the only parent home at the time and he was asleep because he was working nights. I was afraid to wake him since he had not been asleep very long. Shelly, being excited about the whole thing, went into my parents bedroom and woke him up. She was yelling, "Amy hit puberity, we need money to go to the store!" My dad woke up and asked if I knew what to get at the store. I told him no since we had never talked about periods. Shelly said she knew what to get. My dad started getting dressed when my brother came home. Needless to say, my brother wound up taking Shelly and I to the store.
When my mom got home my brother told my mom what had happened and made it clear he wasn't taking me to the store for those kind of products again. My mom couldn't believe it because she thought I was too young. After the shock wore off, my mom cried because she was happy and my dad just said, "congratulations I guess."
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I was 12 and one of the first of my friends. I knew what it was all about because I had an older sister and my family wasn't modest. We talked about everything. It wasn't until I was in high school that I learned my friends mom's never talked about it until it happened, just as your mom did. That was interesting.
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