My daughter is 14 years old. She started her period at 12, and by now she wants to use tampons. I am fine with it and told her she could. We went out, picked up a slender plastic applicator kind, and let her do her own thing in the bathroom. She read the directions but didn't understand when specifically in the vagina it goes. I went in the bathroom with her, had her sit on the toilet and look at it with a hand mirror. Then I showed her on there. After that she asked me to help her. I couldn't do that from behind the bathroom door, so I stood there while she was putting it in and told her what to do.

My mother thinks it's crazy that I did that. She said that she needs to learn to be conservative. It's not like she went out and had me help her in the front yard. We were in the privacy of are own home, just the 2 of us in the bathroom. I think it was fine. What about you? Was it not right? It's not like I inserted the tampon for her.