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Opening mindsfulfilling heartsFor Open Days...www.st-francis.herts.sch.ukFor individual visits year round...admissions@st-francis.herts.sch.ukSt. Francis’ CollegeLETCHWORTH GARDEN CITYPREPARATORY - SENIOR - SIXTH FORM - BOARDING
Mum’sTheWordLITTLE EASTLet’s Talk.Period.Written by Dolly OsborneEach year spring is sprung with sugar coated imagery about newlife. Frolicking lambs, gambolling rabbits, cute fluffy chicks andchocolate eggs. The wholesome, happy scenes of Easter mightbe rather different if the coming of new life was portrayed as thegore-fest that it is. Don’t worry, your roast lamb is safe. I’m nottalking about the meat industry. I’m talking about periods.My 12-year-old son came home a little pale the other day andwhen I enquired why he seemed to shudder a little and said:“We learned about periods.”I decided to stay fairly quiet and let him ask what he needed toask. My memory of period lessons from primary school were thatthe boys were separated out from the girls, and the girls were satbefore the intimidating sight of the buxom nurse who we onlyusually associated with injections and nits.This time ‘Nitty Nora’ had all sorts of props with her and thegirls were all horrified at the sight of looped towels and theiraccompanying scaffolding. We later emerged shaken but slightlysmug as we knew things the boys didn’t and carried that specialknowledge around with a swagger until the horror of monthlyhaemorrhage started in the following years.| Even into my teenage years’ periods were seldom talked about,definitely not without ridiculous euphemisms like ‘Aunt Flo’, ‘thepainters are in’, or the horrifying ‘Liverpool are playing at home’(even as a Kloppite I’m not comfortable with my vagina beinglinked to Anfield). As a feminist mother of a boy I decided early onto be frank about functions of all bodies and so I was fascinatedto hear what the school could have told him that I hadn’t.He sat down next to me, gazed at me in a sincere, worried kindof way and said: “Have you ever used tampons?” When I said Ihad he exclaimed: “but the string just hangs out of you! You haveto put the whole thing inside you, what if you lost it?” I explainedthat as the vagina isn’t a 60,000 seater football stadium losing itwas unlikely but that you did need to remember to change thembecause of toxic shock or leakage. He looked at me as if I was awar hero. But he was clearly steeling himself for more. Reassuredhe decided to breach the thing which had clearly shaken him themost: “What about those cups? They just sit inside you? How?How do you get them out? Why would you use one?” I explainedthe function of a mooncup and how for many people they arethe best choice, how environmentally friendly they are etc.Eventually he seemed to have his queries answered and had anew-found empathy for those who have periods. He clutchedmy hand…”and this happens every month?”…“Well until themenopause but that’s a whole other story…” again the sincereeye lock “Not for today then Mum, not today…”www.raggydollywrites.wordpress.comTwitter @Osborneosaurus71
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