A period party, or First Moon party, is a celebration of the onset of menstruation. They are a great way to start to break down the stigma surrounding menstruation and instead empower our daughters to be proud of their bodies. Mar 2, 2021
Do people really have period parties? People are now throwing period parties to celebrate their children's entrance into the world as official adolescents, which range from a small celebratory dinner with some red foods, to full-on bashes with a cake decorated in fake-blood icing, uterus and tampon-related décor, and menstrual product party favors. Dec 14, 2019
Should you celebrate your daughter's first period? To make sure your daughter sees her first period as a positive and natural part of life, celebrate the event! This celebration can be low-key or more involved. Make it part of a years-long conversation with your daughter about growing up, and fit the party to her personality.
What do you buy for a period party? Period book, tween liners, tween pads, overnight pads, cleansing wipes, hand sanitizer, tissues, to go bag for school, headbands, heat packs, hot chocolate, chocolate.
Why do people celebrate when a girl gets her first period? Menarche, the first menstrual cycle is considered to be something of a milestone in a woman's life. It is also considered to be a girl's 'transition to womanhood'. … In the past, these celebrations were organized to tell that the girl is now of 'marriageable age' and looking for potential suitors. May 23, 2019
I have to say that it seems odd, but on my first visit to Turkey I learned that when a boy is circumcised, it is a big celebration. There is a big party with gifts and cash.
Like most American men my age, this was done automatically at age 3-4 weeks. Party? I have nothing to show for it... literally!
I think it’s cute. Women should be able to openly talk about periods. We aren’t objects. We should celebrate our body’s natural processes but instead they’re considered an embarrassment. I don’t think a lot of people understand that negative period talk reaches 3rd world countries where women don’t have access at all to feminine hygiene products and develop horrible yeast infections and UTIs because they’re too embarrassed to talk about it. We need to break the stigma... from a young age. This period party trend is awesome and I give it an applause.
@007kingifrit Trust me I know what it's like to be mortified about my secrets. It was so uncomfortable the first time I had to buy pads because I'm just standing in an aisle by myself looking at a wall of pads with Google open like how the f*** I do this s*** because I didn't have anyone to help me and trying to figure out tampons by yourself God help you. Best part my mom's decided she wants to have the period and sex talk and start telling me how to use a tampon after I'm friggin 21 years old in a restaurant like please no
When I was about ten and a half, my mom and me had a weekend "down in the city" where we stayed in a hotel and dined out and shopped and shopped. I am the only girl so I felt VERY special. But then we ALSO had "the talk" and she told me all the stuff a girl needs to know (and some stuff I NEVER expected MY mom to talk about).
But, a party over my first period? Not really. It came, Mom helped. I survived. Very thankful for being home schooled THAT day!!! But - a party? Just. NO.
I'm honestly not trying to be mean or anything but, were you raised in the city? The more I'm online, the more it seems like there are two countries - in the city and outside the city. So many things I hear sound like we don't even live in the same county (not you, I mean like in general).
My mom has always been home but we have a farm so that's probably why. But I think it's easier if the mom is home. But your mom is a NURSE and didn't help? I don't get that. Sorry.
@soulbabe I did not mean to be in your business or anything but thanks for being honest - and your answer makes everything make sense to me. It's sad. But I hope your work with animals helps you find peace. I love working with ours (sometimes). Never had bees, though. But using local honey is supposed to be the best to fight allergies and such.
@yofuknutz Yes, you sure did. But, yeah, a lot of people have said stuff that is different from what I always thought, but it made sense and that's why I love being online so I can hear what people outside my little world think. Are some totally out there and weird? Absolutely, but mostly those are amusing to me and I sometimes wonder if those people aren't saying stuff just to get reactions.
I have no reason to lie nothing in this world is perfect so I'm not going to pretend it is. And don't worry about it to much that was the easy part of my childhood. And yes working with animals and clay gives me a sense of peace
@soulbabe Just to clarify, I was NOT talking about you when I mentioned that I thought some people just posted outrageous stuff to get reactions. I just meant "in general."
They actually did this to me and it was hella embarrassing. Like there were more guests than the numbers of guests in my first birthday! It was very very very embarrassing when my brothers (I don't know if they were teasing or genuinely didn't knew as they were 13-15 that time and I was 11) were asking "When the hell did you became a big girl with such a tiny body?" or "Why are they celebrating your 'birthday' even though it is not your birthday?" My aunts always smirking at me whenever I became red of blushing due to such question just made this worse. And the worst thing was that I invited 2 of my male group mates for a discussion of exhibition without knowing they were hosting a party as it was a surprise. Nonetheless it was a great family gathering but very very embarrassing for sure. I felt bad too because my dad cancelled his business trip to Dubai for it. He says celebrating my daughter getting big is more important for me. They really celebrate it.
As gifts I got underwears and pads as major from my elder sisters and aunts. My drawer was loaded out with cosmetics as I became 'big girl'. Thank god it wasn't that bad like shown in the pic in question. It was just like a big birthday party and wasn't period themed.
Omg I would of been absolutely horrified just the thought of it gives me chills. I didn't have my mum around to explain things... what to expect, do's and don'ts etc. I had my older sister who I didn't like very much and the feeling was mutual although when I started my period she put our mutual dislikes for each other aside and was very nice and explained everything to me so I'm grateful for that.
Ms @soulbabe Can you please make a post of the various odd celebrations that there are and ask how many people have heard of them? I think it would be a popular post and you should be the one to do it.
Just wondering if there are other odd ones also that not everyone knows about.
Anyway, just an idea for you. It shouldn't be too hard to research. You don't have to list them all, maybe just the most interesting and unusual ones like this one was.
It's where a group of girls who all coincidentally happen to be on their period at that moment get together and all have a girl's night at one of their houses. They buy sweets, drinks, and hot wings and eat while watching funny movies like "The Room" and "Birdemic". After the party is over, they all go home and cry about their horrible cramping, only to start it all over again the next day until their periods are over.
Another ploy to make women feel special. Like how single moms celebrate themselves for fathers day. Makes no sense. If I celebrated for even the times I worked hard to accomplish shit I wouldn't have much to show for my investment in making myself feel special. You're supposed to accomplish something harder and harder until you master your purpose
We celebrate anything and everything now, when I had my first period I couldn't sleep for a week and thank God my mother didn't throw me a party (then again we didn't have these parties for every thing) for this cause I would have been mortified. Also the book I was given didn't prepare me at all. I don't mean to be that person but did an Instagram influencer created something like this.
I've heard of it from a comedian Bert Kreischer. His daughter had a period party and invited some boys to eat red cake and red sauce spaghetti. But the girls didn't tell the boys what the party was about and so all the girls were just laughing at them. HAHAHA
I've heard of them but never actually known one to happen in reality. I guess it is the attempt of the parents to put a positive spin on a shitty and inevitable situation? Or maybe a rite of passage type celebration and welcome to womanhood? I'm not really sure, I'm just guessing
Exactly what is sounds like. Celebrate getting your period. I think it stems from trying to prevent embarrassment some girls feel when they get it before other peers. It can make them feel like outsiders. People just trying to put a positive spin on it I suppose.
I was shocked when I saw the picture but then reading the comments I feel I should have done it. It is a great window of opportunity to talk and explain things and a part could lighten the feeling of embarrassment for mom and daughter. My daughter has some mild mental delays and the period was horrific... watching her get off the bus covered in bloody khakis I think a party would have help the talk stick in her head better
this kinda shit is why girls get in so much trouble! the fact that you've had your first period makes you no less of a child than when we get boners. girls do not mature faster than men... it's a myth-they are more inquisitive and that's it. but, by playing to this myth--you set em up to be taken advantage of.
It was some comedian on some talk show a couple years ago who talked about having a party for his daughter’s first period. Comedy material. It isn’t a thing. If it were there’d be a section for it in the Hallmark card store.
This is sex talk between a mother and her daughter and explains when she sees blood from her vagina that is her becoming a woman if your age 21, I'm sure your period started at age 10/11 maybe a little later?
I've never heard of this, I think the weirdest part is that they are gonna eat cake that's suppose to look like blood that supposedly comes out of the female genital
It's hardly something to celebrate, if women could delay that they probably would. They would postpone it 5-10 years. If they just could have the other puberty changes.
That’s the last thing I’ll ever celebrate 😂in fact I miss life before having them. Why would anyone go as far as planning a party for this. I’m at a loss.
That may be the most tasteless thing I have ever seen. However, if it boost self esteem in some people, than maybe it should replace sweet 16 as a primary female teenage holiday.
No, that’s rule 34.5. Rule 35 states that if there is an occasion, Hallmark shall have a selection of cards for it. Conversely, if no cards for it are for sale, such occasion does not exist.
Yah I plan on having a home stead on like 10 or so acres I don't like people there insine and I don't like neighbors up my ass all the time there to nosy
Lol I've never heard of a period party before. This is my first time hearing of it.
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Never heard of such a thing. In MEXICO they celebrate the 15-Añera. Which is a party specific to woman-hood at the age of 15. Maybe it’s also for the same reason.
Nope I'm a introvert I don't even like going to the grocery store. I have actually never been to a party. The last time I even had somebody to my house was in 2013 and then my fiance invited somebody over in 2021 and I looked like I was going to have a stroke like dah fuck you mean somebody is coming to the house.
I'm a natural hermit who decided to be engaged to a social butterfly I have regrets. We both ended up going to the college together and taking a couple of the same classes first thing he did was try to find a group of people to talk with first thing I did tried to find the most secluded spaces in the school and then map out which spaces were the coldest ( I like dim cool spaces)
When you've had a cream pie but still you have periods, then it calls for a celebration known as period party. Jk. The period party is the new thing where little girls celebrate getting first period. I don't know why they do it.
If someone says period party, that’s where my mind would go too. I’ve arranged a period funeral before. I felt like Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie.
@Subarugirl Give it a rest woman. That's a gross cake and don't try to act all self righteous in claiming otherwise. I don't see you complaining at any girl who says the same.
It's just a red cake what's the big woop I mean for pet sakes they make cakes that look like severed body parts maybe don't eat and scroll through girls behavior if you're squeamish
Not just a red cake though @soulbabe but it says and represents periods. So sorry, I know girls are ultra sensitive about your period being called gross, even though the question clearly is meant to bait just that, but it's still as gross as severed body parts cake which I do not partake in.
Either way you could just avoid the post all together. I'm not squeamish I've removed infected maggot infested skin from live animals I found on the street so nothing is going to make my stomach turn to me it's just a red cake with word's on it. And the only time I've ever found a period specifically gross was when I was working and somebody decided they were going to make a pentagram out of period blood on the stallwall
Is blood leaking from genitals not gross? Just because a man thinks menstruation is gross doesn't mean he's disrespecting you. The whole human body is gross like the digestive system and mucus side so on.
Try not to take it so seriously Unless he's saying "women" themselves are gross because that's what's not nice.
@chillidog never claimed to be offended everyone is entitled to there own opinion most people find how body's work Gross but I find it fascinating I even find parasites fascinating
But the point of you could just avoid the post all together and keep your lunch in your stomach still stands
@soulbabe Not entirely. Gag questions are quite visible when scrolling, so it was in my line of sight regardless. Speaking in "could'ves" is further irrelevant for the situation as it is. You could've likewise just not posted.
Im sorry to disappoint but I'm not here to make everyone else happy if you can't handle it that's your problem and has no reflection on me and trying to inforce such a rule on me would be infringement of my rights as a US citizen and I'm not about to start living my life to make strangers feel most comfortable the real world doesn't give you the option for trigger warnings people are going to see hear or feel things they don't want to but that's life and people need to get over it I don't like those Gage earrings but you don't see me telling people to take them out because I'm uncomfortable
Geez calm down lol, it was never about being triggered. It's just a gross cake picture. It was even half-jokingly that I made the comment but as I said, ultra senstive as soon as it's about periods for some weird reason.
Not to be crude but, breasts and curves (and maybe pubic hair I suppose) could be thought of as causes for celebration. But periods? More like "the price you pay" for the celebrations. :)
Actually some women still have a little bit of bleeding that shows up so they don't think that they're pregnant even when they are. Hate to break it to you but woman's body kind of just said f*** you
Come on, think of the implications though. People buy pads/tampons for you and you get a free cake out of it. It can't be that bad. Now turn this into a monthly thing and mix up what deserts you get and you're all set each month.
@soulbabe bruh i can understand, once i was at the doctors because i had an ear infection and for some reason the doctor was asking about my period? plus my dad decided to go with me FOR SOME REASON and i had to answer all of her questions in front of my dad. that was extremely humiliating for me.
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