The Headmistress of Binduri Girls’ Model Junior High School, Mary Azure is urging teachers and parents to pay attention to unusual behaviors of menstruating girls since some of them are likely to experience certain changes that make them uncomfortable.
Premenstrual Syndrome is a group of symptoms that occur in women, typically between ovulation and ovulation.
The cause is not fully understood but mostly involves changes in hormones during the menstrual cycle with some of the symptoms being mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability, and depression.
Some of these changes in the view of the headmistress can occasionally cause a school girl to exhibit certain attitudes that are unusual of her in school or at home and could lead to either a parent or teacher putting such a child through a certain treatment.
Paying attention according to her will lead to parents or teachers giving such girls the needed assistance to go through the period.
Speaking to Dreamz News on the sidelines of a sensitization exercise organized for girls in the school by Afrikids Ghana, Madam Azure, said the cost of sanitary pads is a big deal for some girls.
While appealing for more support for girls in the school, she thinks that there is a need for parents and teachers to pay attention to unusual attitudes or behavior by some menstruating girls in order not to put them in a more difficult situation.
“Some of the girls lack the funds to buy sanitary pads so we will lack to appeal for support for these girls.
Also, most girls during their menstrual period experience mood swings which sometimes affect them in a way that their response and behavior and reactions towards parents or their teachers and colleagues in school, not everybody will be able to understand that it could be out of the menstruation that they are behaving in an unusual manner.
So, I will appeal to parents and teachers to observe their girls so as to understand the changes or mood swings in order not to put them through certain treatment.” She admonished.
