We track our daughters’ cycles and treat them to ‘period boards’

That’s just thoughtful parenting, period.

While charcuterie, cheese and butter boards are currently dominating as trending culinary centerpieces, parents in Texas have come up with a a different selection of items to arrange on a wooden slab: menstrual products.

Tifany Allen-Ciota, 52, and Michael Ciota, 62, started creating the “period boards” for their daughters as a joke — but they loved them so much they’ve kept on making them.

“I kept seeing all these new types of boards on TikTok, like a butter board and pasta board,” Allen-Ciota told SWNS. “I just thought, We need a period board.”

The parents track the cycles of their daughters — Brooke, 30, and Courtney, 18 — so they know when to get the boards ready, and arrange them with some of their favorite snacks as well as products to alleviate their symptoms, such as pain relievers and abdominal heating pads.

“I wanted my daughters to come home to a safe environment,” said Allen-Ciota, a bookkeeper and content creator from Houston. “It started out as a bit of a joke and I thought they might be a bit embarrassed, but they loved it.”

In a video describing the board, the parents explain what they include in the display and why. “You want to meet [your daughter] at the door with Aleve and maybe some tissues,” the mom explains while placing the items on a wood slab.

She then suggests something sweet in case the person receiving the board is “raging,” as she lays down some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. “Hershey’s, multiple Hershey’s,” she adds. “[And] several flavors of Pringles.”

She then gets down to the practical element of the board. “Gotta have pads, lots of pads,” she says, arranging them among the snacks.

Allen-Ciota completed the board with some salty snacks, and a parent’s “love” to tie it all together.

Making the boards has also helped her husband understand feminine hygiene and why their daughters are emotional at certain times of the month, she added — which, in turn, has made him feel more included.

“Michael doesn’t know anything about what they are going through so it helps him understand and be involved,” said Allen-Ciota. “I’ve been taking him to shops to explain the different sanitary products and which of our girls prefers what.”

“My husband is very talented in the kitchen,” the wife gushed. “He always puts together something fabulous and he’s great at putting together charcuterie boards, and now he helps me with the period boards.”

The proud mom claims their trendsetting boards have sparked interest from other parents — including fathers wanting to know more about how to help the women in their lives.

“I’ve had a lot of other dads reach out as well on social media, wanting to learn more,” she said. “We want them to know they are loved and supported.”