Mum gets an F-!

My mum did an aweful job. Everything I knew about it was learned in school, and through my own research, I'm thankful I enjoy research and biology, or I wouldn't have known anything. Luckily I didn't start until I was almost 14.5, so I had plenty of time to learn before it came. I kept it a secret for about 2.5 years, until my mum asked one day if I had started, because if I hadn't there was a problem. Anything related to reproduction is kept silent in my family, no one tells anyone anything. I wish someone (preferably not my mum, as we are not close at all) would have explained puberty,sex and menstration to me when I was younger, rather than me finding out through my own efforts.

I hope that when I have girls that are begining puberty I will be a better mum and explain things to them, so that they are not uniformed or worse yet misinformed.