[SERIOUS] Teen girls of Reddit, what can your father do to help you open up and talk to him about your life, emotions, and problems?

When you're on a trip alone with your teen daughter and she gets her period for the first time ever, don't:

a) keep bugging her to come use the spa at the hotel in front of other people until she has to explain that she can't because she has her period and only has pads, not tampons, which won't work in water.

b) ignore that it's happening until she asks you if it's okay to go to the store to get more supplies, because you can bet she's been stretching the meagre supply of pads she had on hand for much longer than she should have, has bled through every pair of pants she packed for the trip and has started taking used pads out of the bin and is trying to clean them to reuse them because she's terrified about how you'll react.

c) drive her to the store and hand her money, and when she starts crying and begging you to go in for her to get the things she needs (because she's pretty sure there's visible blood all over her pants and really doesn't want to go in for supplies in broad daylight but is afraid to mention it because of the car upholstery), you respond by getting angry and defensive and tell her to do it instead because "she's a big girl now" and act like she's ruined the trip.

In all honesty, the fact that I felt like I couldn't ask my dad for help with that stuff (and was proven right) is probably a good indicator that he'd already messed up in the trust department. But either way... don't do that.

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