What happens at the free webinar, and why it costs nothing

A first period is usually explained twice: once at school, in a room of thirty, and once at home, by a parent who may be working out what to say as they say it. The webinar is a third go at it, from someone who does this on purpose.

The shape of it

It runs for an hour on a Saturday afternoon, online, for girls aged 8 to 14. A parent registers, and a parent is welcome to sit in. It is free, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it.

An hour is the length it is for a reason. Fifteen minutes is enough to cover the mechanics and not enough for anybody to ask a question, and the questions are the point.

What the session covers

• Understanding the menstrual cycle
• Promoting hygiene
• Normalising menstruation
• Emotional preparedness
• Building confidence
• Long-term health and wellbeing

The first two are the ones school usually covers. The last three are the ones it usually does not, and they are the reason parents book. Knowing what is happening is one thing. Not being embarrassed by it is another, and it takes longer.

Why 8 to 14 and not 11 to 13

The range is deliberately wide at the bottom. A girl can start well before the year her school gets around to the topic, and being the first in a class is the version of this that goes worst. Eight is early enough that the conversation happens before it is needed rather than after.

What we ask for, and what we never ask for

Registration takes a parent's name and a parent's email. That is the whole form.

We do not ask for your daughter's name, her age or her date of birth, and there is nowhere in our systems to put them if you offered. A session about a girl's body is not a reason to start a file on her, and the safest way to hold a child's data is not to collect it.

There is no booking system and no account to create either. You give an email, we send the joining link to it.

How to get the most out of it

• Sit in if she is at the younger end, or let her watch alone if she would rather
• Have a pen nearby, because questions tend to arrive after the moment to ask them
• Treat it as the first conversation rather than the only one

If you have bought the kit

Anyone who has bought the First Period Kit receives it by post after the session, so she has heard it explained before she opens the box. That order is on purpose: a box of unfamiliar things is a much better present once you know what everything in it is for.

Webinar + First Period Kit

Was £29.99Now £19.99