Laurel Snyder
It's certainly a conversation that's come up!
I feel very strongly that menstruation is not a dirty topic at all. Increasingly, it's something that girls as young as 9/10 experience, so the idea of holding off on introducing it as a topic until middle school seems wrong to me.
I've had a few people say that they don't think boys should read about periods, but that also seems very strange and sexist to me. Kids read about all sorts of things that they don't personally experience. That's what the whole "windows/mirrors" conversation is about, right?
I feel very strongly that menstruation is not a dirty topic at all. Increasingly, it's something that girls as young as 9/10 experience, so the idea of holding off on introducing it as a topic until middle school seems wrong to me.
I've had a few people say that they don't think boys should read about periods, but that also seems very strange and sexist to me. Kids read about all sorts of things that they don't personally experience. That's what the whole "windows/mirrors" conversation is about, right?
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Laurel Snyder:
First I have to apologize. I accidently placed my review under the wrong bibligraphic entry, it should have been for Kindle! I suppose it won't matter soon. Sorry. As for my question- Will there be a sequel? Are you working on one? It seems like it wold make a really cool series!
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