Tag Archives: puberty

What did you most want at thirteen?

For me it wasn’t bigger breasts or Boots17 latest or even a boyfriend. I mean I sort of did want a boyfriend but only in the abstract. I probably did long to be the kind of girl who knew how to get, and then what to do with a boyfriend, but since I wasn’t, I [...]

Posted on 27 March 2013
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Puberty is private!

I have found adolescence to be a time when a girl particularly needs to have someone older who she can talk to, someone who is not her mother.  This is not because there is anything wrong with her own mother, or their relationship, it is just that many girls want the distance that another woman [...]

Posted on 22 January 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Is puberty just around the corner?

If your daughter is eight it might be!  So is she prepared? Puberty in girls normally starts between eight and thirteen years old.  For many it comes sooner than we expect – and for some it cannot come soon enough.  Either way it heralds a time of rapid change.  Your daughter can mature and grow [...]

Posted on 12 December 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Rites of passage
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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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Maiden, mother, crone

Yesterday, after a discussion group on Dying Well (because I want to, and our baby did), I found myself in our local cafe with three older women.  Just as we began to share our thoughts on the morning’s group, ordering our lattes and teas, one of the women suddenly waved the waitress over with great [...]

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Posted on 4 May 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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