I thought we could celebrate too. But she didn't want to. Turns out it's not about me
That was me when I got my first period. When I think now, about DD starting hers I'm the same as PZ, I get all emotional. It's a huge deal, I'm losing my little girl and she's becoming a young woman. But when I got mine I just wanted it to be another day. I asked Mum to borrow a couple of pads and if she could buy me some that day and then that was it. I didn't want to hear another word about it and I didn't want to talk about it. I think she was a little disappointed but if she'd tried to celebrate it I would have been mortified and probably had the same stance, that it's not about her.

Funny how things change when you're the mother!