How to Hide Your Period from Your Parents

Making Pads

Use toilet paper as a substitute pad. If you can get access to proper period products, use them; toilet paper isn't designed to prevent leaks. Wrap a lot of toilet paper around the bottom of your underwear. To play it safe, you can actually tape the toilet paper pad to your underwear with regular Scotch tape so it stays in place. For added protection, add paper towels, or a tissue, since they absorb a lot more than the toilet paper. Though, when wet, they aren't very pleasant to sit around with. These pads don't last very long, no more than four hours, though you should change them around three hours to make sure the blood doesn't leak through and onto your underwear. These don't really work with a heavy flow, so if your flow is heavy, use cloth or a regular pad instead. Low-grade toilet paper, like the type found in public and school toilets, can stick to your vagina.

Use cloth. Grab a piece of cloth, and cut it to the size of an average pad. You might want to layer the cloth for more absorbency. For added protection, add even more toilet paper and tissues to this.

Use some of your family's period supplies. Take a few at a time and hide them among the books in your rooms. This way, it'll be less likely for your parents to find out. You can also volunteer for grocery-shopping duty and buy supplies as well. Dispose of the receipt. Or, just save up, head to the drugstore and buy some.

Making Your Pads Unnoticeable

Check to see that your pad isn't showing. When you're in the bathroom putting them on, look in the mirror to make sure they're not noticeable. Typically it is not. The only situation in which it might be showing is when you are wearing very tight clothes. If it is noticeable, just wear a long, baggy shirt, or adjust your makeshift "pad" to where its not noticeable.

Wear clothes that make it less noticeable. Wear baggy long shirts, or hoodies to cover up. This is also useful if you have a leak too! Wear baggy pants/shorts. If the pants are too close to your skin, it makes a leak more likely. Wear an accessory that attracts attention to your face/neck. Like a hat or a necklace. Not a bracelet or a belt though, for that sends attention to your bottom. Wear dark clothes. A leak will be more noticed on a pair on gray pants than a pair of purple ones.

Preparing for a Leak

Don't panic. Panic will just make things worse. Try taking deep breaths and calmly wrap a hoody over your pants. If you don't have a hoodie, try to adjust your shirt to where it covers up the leak.

Go to a bathroom as soon as possible. Change your product. This time add maximum protection, you don't want to be suspicious by going to a bathroom again.

Acting Normal Around Your Parents

Try to stay away from them. Do your homework. Surf the Internet. Read a book. This will also help stay away from having to do chores on your period.

Eat normally. If you have to eat sugary, fatty foods, try to eat as little of it as possible. Processed foods make your period worse. Hopefully, you usually eat healthily, so you don't have to worry about looking suspicious.

Try to avoid the bathroom unless you absolutely have to. Let's face it, if you barely go to the bathroom, yet have to go to the bathroom every three hours to change your pads, then it will make your parents suspicious. Try changing your products in your bedroom by sneaking a toilet paper roll in your room.