I got the 1964 version of this booklet (in 1965, when I was in the 5th grade). My daughter got a booklet with a similar name when she was in the 5th grade (this would have been spring of 1998, I guess). When we got it in school, the boys had their own booklet and movie and we were not allowed to know what it said. In my daughter's class, they were split up by genders but each group saw both movies. Her male classmates were given deodorant samples as well, but not the girls for some reason, causing the teacher to mutter darkly that the marketers should be in the classroom right after PE if they don't think that 10 year old girls stink. I was the last girl I knew to get a period (nearly age 14, 9th grade). My daughter was 11. I didn't start having bad cramps until a few years later. By the time I was in my mid-20s they were bad enough to cause me to throw up and nearly faint sometimes. This was when ibuprofen was still by prescription only, and my nurse practitioner refused to prescribe it for me, claiming that it was too strong a drug and I'd be better off sticking with aspirin. Ibuprofen coming onto the market changed by life. It was the only med I wanted during labor (not allowed, of course, due to its blood-thinning properties) and my response to women who complained about the pain of labor and childbirth is that their mentrual cramps must not have been very bad. Mine were definitely worse than the labor pain.
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Her male classmates were given deodorant samples as well, but not the girls for some reason, causing the teacher to mutter darkly that the marketers should be in the classroom right after PE if they don't think that 10 year old girls stink.
I was the last girl I knew to get a period (nearly age 14, 9th grade). My daughter was 11. I didn't start having bad cramps until a few years later. By the time I was in my mid-20s they were bad enough to cause me to throw up and nearly faint sometimes. This was when ibuprofen was still by prescription only, and my nurse practitioner refused to prescribe it for me, claiming that it was too strong a drug and I'd be better off sticking with aspirin. Ibuprofen coming onto the market changed by life. It was the only med I wanted during labor (not allowed, of course, due to its blood-thinning properties) and my response to women who complained about the pain of labor and childbirth is that their mentrual cramps must not have been very bad. Mine were definitely worse than the labor pain.