do you think she knew what a period was? I was actually quite concerned for Sally. I hope Betty told her what to expect in general. I think I would have freaked the fuck out if I was wholly unprepared what was going to happen to me.

do you think she knew what a period was?

She told Betty she got her first period.

okay. well at least there's that!

I don't know whether Betty told her or what, but at least she knew it was coming!

I pretty much freaked out, and I had a basic idea of what to expect. If I had just run off from my stepmom's house with the boy I loved who had just told me he had told his friends he was going to sleep with me but then affirmed that he didn't think of me romantically and it happened? I would totally have run home to mom, regardless of how I felt about her on a day to day basis. At that point it was all about comfort and familiarity in a scary, transitional time, when the transition was happening in my own body.

Also I it is another step in making Betty three dimensional. If Don who is much much worse than Betty gets to have depth, and even evil Pete has humanity, it is time Betty got to be three dimensional again. (Yeah, we have seen moments, live shooting the doves, and the vacation in Italy. But it says something about how she is written that we find Don more sympathetic - cause he really isn't. ) So I'm glad to see Betty as the the sympathetic mother who provides comfort for once.

Also there was that bit when she was being shallowly triumphant to Megan and Megan's reaction was "thank god Sally is OK". And Betty backed off seemed to realize what was important, and suddenly saw comforting her daughter as more than one upswomanship. She does not have to stop being Betty, but I do want to see more of the human side.

I pretty much freaked out, and I had a basic idea of what to expect. If I had just run off from my stepmom's house with the boy I loved who had just told me he had told his friends he was going to sleep with me but then affirmed that he didn't think of me romantically and it happened? I would totally have run home to mom, regardless of how I felt about her on a day to day basis. At that point it was all about comfort and familiarity in a scary, transitional time, when the transition was happening in my own body.

This, absolutely. It's fun to be a teenager who hates your mom, until something happens that is guaranteed to make you want to be a kid again.

OK, so maybe it's just me who never told my mother when I finally did start, after a couple of years of being sent off to summer camp with unnecessary pads.

I was impressed with how Betty handled it with Sally, and was happy to see her back off the one-upsmanship ("needed her mother" was definitely a dig on Betty's part). I did find it amusing that Sally said "my first period" while Betty, the ostensible adult talking to another adult woman use "became a woman".

I also thought January Jones did a great job in that scene, which yet again begs the question why she can do such a great job as Betty and seems so dreadful in everything else. I finally saw X-Men: First Class and sheesh. The character is "Emma Frost" not "Emma Blockoffrozenwood".