Natural Womanhood’s Period Genius video series is intended primarily for parents of preteen or young teen girls who would like to inform their daughters about puberty, their menstrual cycles, and fertility.

Our program is for parents who want to empower their daughters with this knowledge in an age-appropriate manner, and respect their innocence concerning sexuality.

The goals of Period Genius are to help girls understand their cycle and gain confidence in who they are as women, and to help parents build an open and trusting relationship with their daughters in the area of cycle health and fertility.

Ultimately, we want to empower parents to provide their daughters with a positive and informed view of their reproductive health.

The program includes a clear and engaging presentation of the science of the female body, such as hormone changes, anatomy, and ovulation, without being overwhelming. There is no reference to intercourse, or for that matter, contraception or natural family planning.

We believe parents are the primary educators of their children, and so this program strives to facilitate trusting communication between moms and daughters.

We’ll be honest: you are the best person to teach your daughter the way you know she needs to be taught–not us, nor anyone else! However, we can promise you that our course is based on the most sound and up-to-date science on fertility.

The course’s content has been reviewed by Natural Womanhood’s Scientific Advisory Board, which includes physicians trained in the modern science of fertility awareness.

We can also promise that this is NOT a sex-ed course. It focuses on the design and purpose of the woman’s body, as well as ways to keep it healthy.

If you are familiar with the work of Natural Womanhood, you will find this program is very similar in approach to the rest of our organization’s original content, but age-appropriate for a young girl.

We also encourage you to preview the short videos before sharing them with your daughter, so that you are comfortable with the content presented within them. Again, our goal with this program is to put you in the driver’s seat.

The core content of Period Genius includes the changes to expect with puberty, the design of the woman’s body and the way cycles work, and the purpose of the cycle and fertility. We also cover the practical ways to deal with periods and various options for hygiene products, focusing on the most common ones for this age and some of the reasons a girl might choose one versus the other. We also speak about good nutrition, sleep, and exercise as a way to promote healthy and painless cycles, but we don’t provide in-depth nutrition information. We also have a guide to help parents and their daughters know when to see a doctor, and most importantly, how to choose one who has a whole-person approach, versus a doctor who will simply prescribe birth control pills. We do not offer any medical advice for approaching specific cycle issues (such endometriosis, PCOS, PMDD, etc.), but our guide on when to see a doctor can help you discern the best course of action for getting the right help for your daughter should she need it.

Yes and no. No, because all the educational content you need, including all of the webinars, video recordings, and PDFs for which you subscribed, will be available on the platform.

We will also send regular important reminders by email.

However, without access to the Facebook group, you would miss out on the community aspect, including hearing from other moms and dads, and sharing their experiences.