OMG..with every thing else going on...now this...LOL

The belt, LOL poor girl. I will never forget when I started, my parents were at a party, and I had to call my mom to tell her ( she had a few). So what does my mom do, she tells everyone while I was on the phone "Robin started her period" Did I ever want to go and hide in the closet, that was embarassing LOL looking back at it now. Good luck to you and to your daughter, to the tampon thing, don't they make slim for teenagers now?
Robin

LOL  Robin......I think are Moms are one in the same, Note, my Mom called everyone to meet us at Ferrells, ...LOL  I can just see my daughter face if I purchased a belt for her to wear each month...gawd..had to have been a MAN that designed those..LOL
Jill was telling me that you have to order the slims now online...

M~

I had my first period at 10 years old, my mom  never had the "girl talk" with my sister and I.  We knew it would eventually happen because friends had talked, but not mom.  We were at 4-H camp and I was sick as a dog and my nose kept bleeding too (why, I don't know it was strange).  Our 4-H sponsor had to let me borrow some pads and when I say they were BIG I am not exaggerating....it reached from my belly button to the crack of my butt. Mom was so apologetic, she was 14 before hers came and she never suspected it to happen to us young.

My older sister was 14 and my two younger sisters were 9 and 10.....my mom still talks about how awful she felt for me.

Ferrells!! What great memories! I wish I knew of one close!! Went there ll the time when we were kids...(okay well when there was a special occasion! Now on to the other stuff~~~ My 13 yr old DD says GROSS!! I don't want to use them! But would nnever listen to "ME " tell her how so would have to read directionsLOL! Went through all last summer without ...just didn't swim then...BUT this summer...I bet around June 15th or so...I am sure that will change! And man oh man...8 YEARS OLD??? No wonder you were freaked! I am sure there had never even been a discussion about it!~~~Good luck....and just let her know they will not be regular for awhile!~~~~here comes the hormones and PMS!~~~

Oh girl my parents are 60's children, I'm their "love child"  there was alway some sort of "talk" going on, and if not, there were always books and stuff around..LOL Mama and I had had that talk several times....
Okay, wait...your telling me Courtney's attitude is not going to get any better...I still have to hear her mouth??? OMG NO!!!!  LOL  
Courtney is very strong willed and when she sets her mind to do something normally she does...she did tell me last night...Mom, I can't do the "Always wings"  just get me regular pads "IF" I have to wear them.....LOL

Hey Mel, my DD started when she was 9 and I clearly remember teaching her and her best friend how to put in tampons at the ripe age of 12.  OMG, who woulda thunk that I would actually have to TEACH them but I did.  What an experience.  She's never worn a pad since that day.  Moms and their daughters, what fond memories!!

Steph, my step-mom got to teach me how, lol.  It was quiet interesting her explaining to me how to insert it.

Oh lord I can't believe I'm having this conversation on the board for the whole world to see, I need to shut up.

No, no you don't. I need the laugh after my lovely day.

LOL....I know what you mean....
M~

Dana my mom just bought me a box and I went to the bathroom with the instructions and figured it out on my own.  I bought the OB tampons because I was more comfortable putting it in myself than having to sick that sick up in me.LOL  My mom NEVER used tampons so her trying to tell me what to do was a waste of time.  My daughter is almost 15 and has no desire to use them yet.  So I havent' had to explain it to her although I am sure she knows how to do it because all of her friends use them.