Tag Archives: parenting teenagers

Informing your daughter ~ an on-going conversation

Who teaches your daughter about bra sizes?  Or what to expect as puberty approaches?  Or how to manage the heart ache of first relationships? You could leave it to the occasional lessons in school, but who can ask questions in that kind of setting?  Or it could be her peers, but do they really know?  [...]

Posted on 5 November 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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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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The seasons of our parenting

If our parenting-life were to be one full cycle of seasons, where in yours are you? The forerunner of spring, when we are just coming out of hibernation, would be the baby time. The springtime of our parenting would be the fresh early years, followed by the blissful summer of those relatively easy middle years [...]

Posted on 2 October 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Parenting – a lifetime of letting go

From the moment of giving birth and cutting the umbilical cord, parenting is a lifetime of letting go.  While letting go is liberating it can also be scary and painful. We have to trust that our children will be capable. Our children need us to believe in their competence. We have to trust that they [...]

Posted on 10 September 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls
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Does your daughter have a Miss Sophie?

We have a dance teacher in our village who really has something special.  Her name is Miss Sophie. I wanted to introduce the girls in my monthly girls’ group to the notion of acquiring mentors as they make their passage through life.  I wanted to show them that they probably already have a few.  I [...]

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Posted on 13 August 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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