Period Positive Families
Helping families talk about periods with more confidence, less awkwardness and no shame.
Let's raise a generation of girls who don’t have to whisper about periods
Less awkwardness.
Better body literacy
Stronger connections
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For Dads and Father Figures
Relaxed, practical menstrual education created specifically for fathers and male caregivers.
For Parents and Carers
Practical information to help prepare girls before their first period arrives.
Pints and Periods in person events
Know what to say, what to buy and what to do before she needs you.
Presented by a
WA teacher:
Program approved by gynaecologist, endocrinologist, fertility specialist
We help parents and carers feel calm, informed and prepared to support girls through puberty, first periods and the years that follow without turning it into one big awkward conversation. Because periods are family knowledge, not secret women’s knowledge.
Period Positive doesn't mean loving your period, it can simply mean being neutral
Periods are understood
Periods can be talked about
Periods aren't shameful
Girls receive support they need
Body Literacy starts at home
Period education is about more than managing bleeding.
When we teach girls about their bodies without secrecy or shame, we are also teaching them something much bigger.
We are teaching them that they are allowed to:
- notice what is happening in their body
- use correct words for their anatomy
- ask questions
- say when something hurts
- recognise when something does not feel right
- seek help
- ask for explanations
- and advocate for themselves.
Body literacy supports confidence, autonomy and self-trust.
Those skills matter long after the first period is over.
Prepare her before her period arrives
You don’t need to have “The Period Talk”.
In fact, we’d prefer you didn’t.
One big serious conversation can make puberty feel far more intimidating than it needs to be.
Instead, Period Positive Families encourages parents to create lots of small opportunities for body conversations to become normal.
A period-product advertisement.
Walking through the supermarket aisle.
A question about why Mum has a period.
These moments can become thirty-second conversations rather than thirty-minute lectures.
The goal is not for parents to have perfect answers, but to communicate these three main points;
- my body is safe to talk about.
- questions are welcome here.
- the adults around me can handle this.
Why dad's involvement matters
Mum may be the person your daughter naturally chooses to talk to most about periods.
Period Positive Families isn’t about replacing that relationship.
It’s about making sure Dad doesn’t disappear from this part of her life simply because her body has started changing.
When Dad can talk calmly about periods, buy products without embarrassment and respond helpfully when something happens, he sends an important message:
There is nothing about your body that makes me uncomfortable being your dad.
A grimace, joke, awkward silence or immediate “go and ask Mum” can communicate more than adults realise.
But so can calmness.
Dad doesn’t need perfect words; they just need to feel confident enough to have the conversation.
Her cycle doesn’t follow the parenting roster.
For separated and co-parenting families, period preparedness matters in both homes.
A girl shouldn’t have to carry every product she might need backwards and forwards.
And she shouldn’t feel anxious about getting her period because she happens to be staying with Dad.
Being period-ready can be as simple as having:
- appropriate period products
- spare underwear
- a bathroom bin
- a heat pack
- basic understanding of pain and bleeding
- a plan for school and sport
- and a parent who knows what to do.
The logistics are simple.
The reassurance they create can be significant.
Periods, school and sport
Period confidence affects participation too.
For some girls, periods aren’t simply an inconvenience.
Pain, leaking, anxiety, heavy bleeding or unexpected periods can affect school attendance, sport, swimming, concentration and confidence.
Girls need practical strategies to manage their periods — but they also need adults who take their experiences seriously.
Period Positive Families encourages girls to understand their own bodies, notice patterns and learn when symptoms may need more support.
Because “just put up with it” should never be the only menstrual health advice a girl receives.
At Wellwise Woman, we believe the best way to protect our girls from shame is to fill them with truth, body knowledge, and emotional support—early, gently, and often.
"Shame fills the space where there’s a lack of knowledge.”
- Jane Hardwicke Collings
Meet Katrina Christian
Founder, Teacher & Menstrual Health Educator
I teach this because I know what it feels like to live in a body you were never properly taught to understand.
Like many women, I learned the basic reproductive anatomy growing up, but it wasn’t until much later that I began to understand the menstrual cycle more deeply, what my hormones were doing, what my body was communicating and why that knowledge mattered.
I don’t want girls to spend decades discovering information they could have been given much earlier.
And I don’t want parents (especially dads) feeling shut out of these conversations simply because nobody taught them either.
Period Positive Families brings that knowledge into family life in a way that is practical, age-appropriate, shame-free and easy to use.
Downloadable parent's guide;
'First Period Starter Kit'
How to celebrate her First Period (for Parents)
A downloadable guide to
fear-free periods with your child