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Have a happy period! Those words stared at me from the pamphlet my 11-year-old daughter had just handed me. Mocking me. Filling me with dread and angst. My daughter had just experienced the joy, the unbridled excitement that was "The Talk" in school. It had gone well, in part because she already knew the information - after all, she's heard it since birth AND she shares a bedroom with a teenage sister, so there's nothing sacred there. The most traumatic part of the entire discussion was the fact that A BOY walked in while the teacher was saying one of the WORDS, Mom!