I was supposed to review this item for the Parent Bloggers Network earlier this week, but I had too many conflicting emotions about the end of my own period in order to write it. I’m going to apologize in advance if I don’t do a good job with this review, but this is a loaded subject for me right now.

My First Period Kit and DVD is a package of items designed to help you talk to your daughters who are aged nine through twelve. It includes a 99 minute DVD, a bonus section on the DVD that talks about the “Birds and Bees,” a Parents Guide, a Reference Card, a 1-year subscription to the Healthy Chats online, a Butterfly pad purse and a butterfly bracelet, basically, everything you need to broach the subject of periods and sex with your kid. Bug has been getting her periods for awhile, so nothing was really new to her in this kit. She thought the whole thing was “stupid” when it first got here, but I later saw her watching the DVD on her own and sporting the butterfly bracelet.

Look, if you are one of those parents who are very comfortable discussing sex and puberty with your kids, then this probably isn’t needed for you. But if you are weirded out by explaining how to put a tampon in your ladytown, then you can’t beat this DVD. I wouldn’t recommend dumping your kid off in front of it and going to get a pedicure, but it is definitely a great opening for this type of discussion. And the DVD does all the dirty work for you. All you have to do is be there to answer your kid’s questions. This would be a GREAT product for a dad who is raising a daughter on his own. The little pad purse is cute, and Bug liked the bracelet. (It is one of those rubber bracelet things.) There is also a section on “the birds and the bees” but it is separate from the rest of the DVD so you can chose to watch that or not.

You can watch clips from the DVD on the website. For $19.95 plus shipping, this might be just what you need to help you have this kind of conversation with your kid if you aren’t the type of person who blogs about their vagina on the internets.

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