Remember in 5th grade (or 6th grade) when one day the boys were taken down to the gym to get "the growing up talk" and the girls were taken to watch a film that was pretty much a "welcome to the menstruation club" flick? I remember watching a film featuring Andrea McArdle from "Annie" talk about getting your period.
Anyone? Anyone? Seeing the name Judy Blume reminded me of this for some reason.
I swear, the only first period info I got was from that movie & Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (my God, the library had a waiting list for that book). I remember the first time I got it, my mom didn't really say anything to me about it, just left a bag of pads in my room. I know she told my aunt about it, because when I came home from school my aunt said "Welcome to Womanhood!" I remember stomping off up to my room screaming "mooooooooom," LOL.
Re: Does anyone remember this school film
We never got that film, but I spent my tortured adolescence in a really conservative part of Florida. I got my period early, too, and at camp. I had no idea it was coming and I thought I was dying.
Good times.
I can't remember the title. I remember getting the little booklet, so maybe that is the title.
I wonder if they even show to the girls a similar film these days.
I'm hoping there's an updated version of Are You There, God... for my daughter when she gets to that age. I remember pretty much wearing out the copy I borrowed. And I remember being oddly disappointed that pads aren't the contraption they used to be, lol. "They talked about a belt--where's the belt!"
Yeah, thank God for adhesives! The belt sounds ridiculous. I remember being worried about that too after reading the book.
I remember seeing a film, but I don't remember what it was.
I also remember being in high school health class and our teacher asked one of the boys how long the average woman's period was. He got confused and said, "28 days." Our teacher was kind of no-nonsense and said, "If a woman bled for 28 days, she'd be dead!" I can still remember that boy's face...he wanted to crawl under the desk!