Tag Archives: pregnancy

Let’s Talk About Blood!

How about this as a gift to your pre-teen daughter: Gather together your women friends, and her girl friends and their mothers, and talk about your bleeding time! This is what I offer the girls in my Girls Journeying Together™ groups and we have a lovely evening.  I highly recommend it. Women supporting girls – [...]

Posted on 8 June 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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What if your daughter starts bleeding away from home?

When I talk to pre-pubescent girls this is one of the things they fear most about starting their periods: “What if I’m not at home?” No matter how well you have prepared your daughter, the start of her bleeding almost always comes as quite a shock.  Explain that it is quite normal for her to [...]

Posted on 27 April 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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When is the Right Age to Have a Baby?

Twenty-eight? Not eighteen, not for me anyway. And thirty-eight to have a first child seems a bit old. A bold few say never. But who says that you have to be well out of your teens but not too far towards middle age? It wasn’t so long ago that women hoped to grow up, meet [...]

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Posted on 11 January 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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