What is the monthly for girls?

In the life of every girl there comes such a time when the question arises as to what is monthly and when they are observed in girls. Let's take a detailed look at this situation and try to give advice to mothers: how to explain to the child what is monthly and at what age it is necessary to conduct a conversation on this topic.

When it is necessary to tell my daughter about menstruation?

Most parents count on the fact that today, in the information age, children are so developed that they are able to find answers to their own questions without their participation. This is how teenage girls learn what a monthly cycle is for women from the Internet or from their girlfriends. However, this is not entirely correct.

Start talking with the future girls of the mother should be about 10 years. It is this age that psychologists consider more appropriate. Moreover, today quite often the menarche (the first menstruation) comes earlier than the prescribed 12-13 years.

How to explain to the girl, what such monthly?

In order to correctly and easily explain to the daughter what is monthly, why and how they occur in the female body, what is their meaning, it is necessary to adhere to the following rules:

  1. It is necessary to start talking about menstruation at an early age. It is best if the conversation takes place in a natural context. For example, you can start with the fact that there will be a time when the girl will be completely like her mother: there will be chest and hair in certain places.
  2. Gradually, as you approach 10 years, start telling the child more specific facts.
  3. Already in 10-11 years the girl can tell what the menstruation is, what is the cycle of menstruation. It is very important to answer all questions that the child will ask. If the mother does not know how to correctly answer it, it is better to say that she will respond a little later than to remain silent and leave the question without attention.
  4. All answers should be extremely simple. There is no need to go into the essence of the process (talk about ovulation, the phases of the cycle). The girl will have enough information that explains what is monthly, for which this process is necessary in the body of women and how often the discharge of blood is observed.
  5. In no case is it worthwhile, in order to explain to the girl what is monthly, to use such means as a book or video. They can only be applied as a so-called starting point. After that, the mother should, by herself, in an accessible and simple way, talk about this process.
  6. Many psychologists recommend in this type of conversation to focus on personal experience. So, for example, a mother can tell how she experienced about the first months and after that ask her girlfriend what she feels about this, what she has fears associated with the first menstruation.
  7. Always try to answer the child's question and at the same time respond only to him, without overloading the girl with unnecessary and sometimes unnecessary information. Believe me, a child of 10-12 years does not need to know all the characteristics of female physiology.

Thus, it is necessary to say that before explaining to your daughter, that such monthly, mum should prepare it for such conversation and to choose a suitable situation. It will be ideal when the girl herself asks her mother about it.

How to explain the boy, what is the monthly?

Quite often questions about the monthly appear in boys. In this case, mothers should not leave them without attention.

The boy in such cases will have enough information that this is a physiological process that occurs in the body of each girl every month, is necessary for the birth of children. As a rule, boys do not ask more questions.