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If you follow us on Instagram, you know that we have daily conversations and polls around a variety of subjects. Last week, I posted, “Name something every girl should know but is rarely taught.” The responses ranged from intellectual to anatomical. It was an eye-opening conversation as we were able to see just how many women were not taught important things as kids.
I had a few requests to save this list for future conversations, so here are the topics and poll results. Feel free to chime in, in the comments and let us know which of these things you were or weren’t taught and whether we missed any.
If you are the mother or father of girls, how many of these subjects have you discussed with your little girls? Do you think they are all necessary?
As a Mom of three girls, I see the importance in teaching them many of these topics. The way I look at it is, if I don’t teach them, they will learn elsewhere whether that is their friends, school, or google. But they can also find out the hard way, so I’d rather I prepare them for as much as I can while they are young and living in our home.
I can think of so many things that I wish I would have learned before I left for college at 17. So those topics are often discussed in my home. I know in most situations, you can’t tell someone how to live their life. We all learn from our mistakes… but what if we can prevent some of those mistakes by openly speaking to our girls about the sensitive and necessary topics?
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This is interesting! I’d love to see it broken down by ages (I taught my daughter different things than my parents taught me) and I’d be curious to see how men answer the same poll. Because honestly, every kid should be taught these things.
WOW! The numbers in these categories are staggering! I know my sister in law and cousin both fall into several of these categories due to a lack of parenting, and it is sad. Their lives now clearly reflect it as well, and it had taken years for them to dig their way out of abusive relationships, find self worth, and figure out where those babies keep coming from, all things their parents should have taught them.
These are such great areas about which all women should know. Thanks for putting them all together.
I think the ones that surprised me most were abusive relationships and using a tampon.
There seem to be quite a few areas where girls/women haven’t been taught. It seems quite a bit we have to learn for ourselves.
I was surprised by this post, we should know more about this. Thank you for sharing.
These are all really great and very important things that girls should know. I’m gonna let my friends and daughter know about this too.
This is interesting! I’d love to see it broken down by ages (I taught my daughter different things than my parents taught me) and I’d be curious to see how men answer the same poll. Because honestly, every kid should be taught these things.
WOW! The numbers in these categories are staggering! I know my sister in law and cousin both fall into several of these categories due to a lack of parenting, and it is sad. Their lives now clearly reflect it as well, and it had taken years for them to dig their way out of abusive relationships, find self worth, and figure out where those babies keep coming from, all things their parents should have taught them.