My 11 year old daughter was having her first periods and the questions she asked left me totally stumped. Why don’t boys have periods, Papa? Do they bleed? When girls get periods as they age, what do boys get? Although I was prepared for all sorts of questions, these questions left me and my wife searching for the right answers. I tried to answer each one of her questions in an honest manner. I said, “My dear, boys do not get periods and they do not bleed. When boys reach the age of 11, 12 or 13 they do not get anything similar to what the girls get. There are many changes that take place in a boy but they are definitely not painful. She was now looking at both me and my wife with a surprised look on her face. Her expressions seemed to suggest that this was totally unfair and that she does not agree with how God had created man and woman. She was shaking her head in a manner that suggested that she was not happy with what we were saying. Initially we tried to explain to