in #CASE you missed it… Mom Sends Two Sons To School With WHAT?
A woman recently shared that her two sons carry tampons and pads in their backpacks for their friends
It’s a good bet that every woman at some point has gotten their period and not had any pads or tampons on hand, and when that happens to young girls it can be really embarrassing. Well, one mother is hoping that never happens to another girl, and has recruited her sons to make sure of it.
A woman recently shared on the private Facebook page Pantsuit that her two sons, 15-year-old Micah and 16-year-old Elijah, “carry a tampon and a pad in their backpacks in case one of their friends needs one,” adding, “Just a mom out here, trying to erase gender taboo!!”
The woman says she first brought up the subject with her boys last year after reading about a man on the Appalachian Trail who noticed a women had bled-through and offered her a tampon from his backpack. That’s when she decided to mention to her sons that they should carry tampons a tampon in their backpack in case it happened to a friend.
She says the boys didn’t think much of it until they witnessed a friend have a bleed through and was left without anything since all her friends had tampons and she was only allowed to use pads. After that the boys decided to put pads in their backpacks just in case.
And while some boys may be embarrassed by it, the woman’s two sons definitely aren’t with Micah telling his female friends that not only does he always have a sweatshirt if they need one to cover themselves, but he has tampons as well. And Elijah didn’t just tell his female friends, but his male friends as well, and while some boys made fun of him, others simply told him “cool dude.”
“As you normalize these things in your own family by regularly discussing them, they become normal to your kids, too,” the writer notes. “It’s my hope that kids of all genders, including transgender kids, know that my boys are a safe place to get period supplies, should they ever need them.” She adds, “But it is an even bigger hope of mine that these small actions change the way kids in our high school handle and view the whole subject.”
Those are two boys that are going to make a woman really happy one day…