What is best way to explain periods to my 7 and 8 year olds.

There is an AWESOME book out there called ' the care and keeping of you' by the american girls series! It is a fabulous conversation started and has a lot of age appropriate information for maturing girls.

LINK to amazon & the book I mentioned.

You can use a book that focuses on the girl's experience (I haven't checked out that one mentioned but I've heard people refer to it before) but you also can communicate factually about what happens & why. My daughter understands the process as one related to fertility. Understanding the function of the blood/uterine lining (how it would be utilized if the egg released were fertilized & how it is shed if not needed for that purpose, each month) grounds the experience in its purpose. She knows this is what happens for me, and that it begins happening when a girl is physically mature enough to begin ovulating.

I agree with both of these answers. I have recently had these conversations.Just keep talking about it. Tell her that her body will go thru changes, it is called puberty and that is how your body slowly turns into an adult body. You get hair on privates and arm pits and you go thru other changes too which is called a period. Women make eggs and if it isn't used to make a baby then you have a period which washes that out so their is always a fresh egg. when you have a period then you have to use pads in your underwear so it doesn't get on your clothes. You won't have this for a few years but I want you to know about it because you may hear people talking about it and then ask if they have heard about it already or if they have questions. Once the door is open you will ind that they start asking you all kinds of questions. The book Care and keeping of me is great. We also have "It's not the stork" to help with the sex talk.

I find a little info is best to start with and build on the conversation. Dont just dump a bunch on them at once.

I used the care and keeping of me book also. I read it with my daughter, 1-2 chapters/night in case she had any questions (which she did). They.covered the biology/anatomy part in school, the book covered almost everything else.

I talked to both my kids about it at 7 years and 8 years old. they both cried about the bleeding but i explained. then i also got them the book that was mentioned earlier. It helped so much. In fact it has helped both girls over the years. And when my 10.5 year old daughter started her cycle she was on Christmas break and it made it easier for her to come talk to me

I took my girls to the Library and got books that they would understand....then answered any questions, it wasn't that bad.....