Would you scrap this??

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scrapperjade

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So I was browsing through a gallery at a paper scrap site that I frequent, and one of the pages caught my eye. When I opened it up, I was pretty much horrified at the content.... maybe its just me though.

Anyways, the woman scrapped her daughters first period! That *may* not have bothered me, but she went into FULL detail about it all in her journalling (which was pretty big & easy to read without blowing it up). Like how much bleeding, how her daughter reacted, how they tried to use tampons, but because her daughter was only 9 (!!) they were too big, so they had to use pads. I was actually pretty disgusted!

Personally, I think that went WAY over the line! I mean, if you are going to scrap it, fine, I'm not judging you for it. BUT DON'T POST IT ON A PUBLIC FORUM!!! Really!!! I would be mortified & angry if I was the daughter. Obviously nothing is private anymore! Ugh!
 
I might scrap it, gory details and all,
and trust me I'm probably the least prude person here (well, besides Manda, she's prolly got me by a mile :p ) but I wouldn't put it in anything but her PERSONAL scrap album and I would NEVER post it in public.
Lemme guess, 2peas? lol
 
I kinda think that's not something you want people to open up the scrapbook and read about 20 years from now. If I was the daughter I'd be horrified
 
when I had my first period my mother threw me a party, baked me a cake. And then my dad came from the office with a co-worker, and my sister (3 years younger than me) ran to them saying there was cake cause I had had my first menstruation.

So.... me , I don't mind .
 
some LO's at the paper sites have been WAY over the top for me. This isn't the first time I have heard something personal like this scrapped
 
I wouldn't scrap something like that myself, but I do understand that as a major rite of passage many people feel it's an event that should be celebrated.
HOWEVER, there is no way in hell I would post that publicly!!! How horrifying for her daughter. Sure, we should all be less ashamed of these things but, hello, does this woman NOT remember what it was like to be an awkward teenager?!? She needs to grab a clue imo.
 
I might scrap about it. NOT detailed and no gory pictures. Just as a milestone. ANd like Mandy I would not post it for others to see. It is a private time in a young ladies life. Thats just me though.
 
That poor girl. I can't imagine how she'll feel one day. I think it would've been more appropriate to journal about the mother's feeling about her daughter becoming a 'woman' than the gory details. Mind you....I'm one of the most open people about things but to put it on a public forum?!?!? I don't think so! IMHO
 
well since i have a son i won't have to do anything like that...but that said if i did scrap it i don't think i would post it publicly...i would assume no one cares if my daughter got her period or not...
 
I would have to agree with the others. It is one thing to scrap about her passage into "womanhood" but no way I would post it on a public forum! How embarrassing for her daughter! And I know most girls that age that start are very self-conscious about it!
 
Yeah..chances are, if I wouldn't post it publicly, nobody should. :) No big deal about scrapping it, I mean..it's a natural part of life. We don't see other natural parts of life being scrapped though..such as..BM's and vomit. Whew!
 
I am more horrified that she is 9 and has her period!! 9??? That is like in 3 more years for Sophia, so not ready for that!!!
 
I'm all for scrapping the good, the bad and the ugly. Put it in her personal album, or keep it in her own album if it embarasses her daughter and she wouldn't want friends to see it or something.

But to post it in a public gallery is ridiculous to me. Are there no lines drawn anymore??
 
wrong...wrong...wrong....it is!!! I would NEVER do something like that....It would be like me posting a LO of my son when he started with the whole ROTTEN puberty thing!!!!! Way too graphic for me:blink:
 
hey I've seen poop layouts before LOL.. .I think it's a good thing to scrap if that's the type of stuff you normally would , but I prolly wouldn't post it publicly like the others said.
 
Personally, I never would scrap something like that. And I would never embarrass one of my children with posting something so private on a public forum...
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poor kid. i'm with kat, i wouldn't ever scrap something so personal.
and even if i did, i wouldn't EVER post it in a public forum. it'd be put into an album and put on a shelf.
 
BeccaBoo said:
I would have to agree with the others. It is one thing to scrap about her passage into "womanhood" but no way I would post it on a public forum! How embarrassing for her daughter! And I know most girls that age that start are very self-conscious about it!
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Yep I am with Becca on this one. In my family they are fairly open with that kinda thing HOWEVER I would die if it was posted on hte internet. I dont think some realise its accesible to everyone. What if her friends ever saw something like from school or whatever. A stretch but possible.
 
I would scrap it, though without the TMI about tampons, etc. It is a significant event in a girl's life & if I had a DD I would consider the event scrap worthy. I don't think I would post it. I certainly would not do so without asking my daughter's permission first.
 
I might scrap it, but probably from a different point of view, probably about the feelings I have as a mother watching her "become a woman".

I wouldn't post it in a public gallery.
 
Um no I wouldnt scrap it. LOL I wouldnt have wanted my mother to scrap a page of when i got mine for all her friends to see.
 
WOW ~ I have a 12yo daughter and all I have to say is BE CAREFUL!!! There are such things as cyber bullies and once it's on the internet it's there for everyone to see, including all the mom's of the kids she goes to school, therefore the kids that she goes to school with.....I shutter to think if that LO fell into the wrong hands......
I worry sometimes about the LO's that I do..... That is why you don't see so many of my teens -
 
i'm not sure I'd scrap something like that . . . sounds like way more journaling than I ever care to do.

Sounds like that woman has the same problem I do . . . a layout is not really finished until posted online :p.

Seriously though if I were the daughter I would be MORTIFIED.
 
I think what horrified me was not the fact that she scrapped it (even though I personally wouldn't do it), but that she posted it. To me its something that if you're going to scrap, just put it in a private album just for the daughter, kwim?

I just felt bad for the girl. If my mom ever announced to the whole world all the deets of my first period I would have disowned her!
 
Yeah, wouldn't scrap it and definitely wouldn't post it. I wouldn't want my daughter to be flipping through the family scrapbook album with her boyfriend, and *whoops* there's the first period page. I think that if something is too embarrassing to be read in that situation, I shouldn't scrap it. I can see documenting it in a personal journal, but that's it.

On a slightly different note, my husband said yesterday that periods were disgusting. ??? Inconvenient, messy, and obnoxious, yes. But disgusting? I thought that was a teenager-ish thing to say and I told him so. So I definitely don't think he would appreciate my scrapping about periods!
 
cheltzey said:
On a slightly different note, my husband said yesterday that periods were disgusting. ??? Inconvenient, messy, and obnoxious, yes. But disgusting? I thought that was a teenager-ish thing to say and I told him so. So I definitely don't think he would appreciate my scrapping about periods!
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I don't know how I stay married because that comment would so make me make scrap page about it just to spite him!!!! Ha - The things my DH puts up with!
 
On a slightly different note, my husband said yesterday that periods were disgusting. ??? Inconvenient, messy, and obnoxious, yes. But disgusting? I thought that was a teenager-ish thing to say and I told him so. So I definitely don't think he would appreciate my scrapping about periods!
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I dunno...I'm pretty much disgusted every 24 days (yes...short cycle) when I start another. I'm like...already???? Geesh...definitely not one of my favorite parts about being a girl.

And scrapping the period? Maybe. But not posting it. Problem is...if that is at 2peas and is on their Top 10...it will never disappear...people will keep clicking. Some of the most obnoxious pages (and completely nonelated SB stuff, too) end up on the Top 10. /rant over
 
I guess I should clarify... this was NOT at 2Peas. The page was done by a very nice person, and its a close-knit site, much like this one. Nobody over there said anything nasty to her, and I honestly don't think she did it to be crude or rude. As someone else said, it was probably posted because she posted everything else.
 
LOL....just read this for the first time. Not something I'd scrap - maybe in a not-to-the-point layout but something though. My dd who is 11 would be mortified!!! I think I'd be mortified if my Mom had done that to me!
 
cheltzey said:
On a slightly different note, my husband said yesterday that periods were disgusting. ??? Inconvenient, messy, and obnoxious, yes. But disgusting? I thought that was a teenager-ish thing to say and I told him so. So I definitely don't think he would appreciate my scrapping about periods!
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OMG! Serious? I can't believe that. Like we have control over them! If we did, we wouldn't get them! LOL
 
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