Bloody hell

Last week, whilst collecting a prescription of mentalism tablets, I popped into the toilets in the shopping centre. 

Whilst in there, I heard someone crying in a way that indicated severe distress.  I knocked on the door, and a small voice answered.

To cut a long story short - it was a thirteen year old girl, who had just discovered that she was having a period, her first one at that.  She had very little idea what was happening, and thought that she had hurt herself.

Parents, I'm not telling you how to do your job, but you realise that telling your children about body changes is your job, right?  That to leave your child so uneducated in the matter that they think they are dying when they get a period is nothing short of neglect?

That is all.  Continue.