Musings: Rites of passage

a marking post on the journey from girl to woman

First bra – a special occasion

Do you remember getting your first bra? Was it a special experience?  I hope so. A girl’s first bra takes her through a gateway – a significant step along her path towards womanhood.  She is introduced to a whole new world of lingerie choices: cup size, cotton, lace, black, pink, skin-tone, underwired, padded, strapless, matching [...]

Posted on 2 November 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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Celebrate her Coming of Age

Want to do something to celebrate the specialness of your daughter’s coming of age – but not sure what or how? Want to mark the occasion of her first bleed – but feel certain that she’d sooner not? Not sure how to introduce the idea of a puberty rite to your daughter (or son)? Well [...]

Posted on 9 October 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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New school year starts here

Every family has their rituals at the start of a new school year, whether or not they realise it.  It helps with the nerves and the excitement – more advanced work, new teachers, perhaps a new school even.  Children feel it, parents too.  Our little rituals help to prepare us:- checking the uniform fits, replacing [...]

Posted on 2 September 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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Not ready for big school?

It is the last day of term and for most eleven year olds it is the last day of primary school. Next September – big school!  It is presented as a big-new-exciting-thing, as often new things are to children.  But actually, for many the change is daunting and not terribly welcome. Even though it may [...]

Posted on 20 July 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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High heels at thirteen?

High heels at thirteen – or make-up, or boys, or staying out later, or a myriad of other ways that our girls seek to feel more grown up.  All teenagers want to know that they are not the children they used to be – they want to know it for themselves and they want us [...]

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Posted on 28 May 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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