Coming of Age Conversations and Crafts

the lack of modern culture coming to the age of activity can lead to confusion and isolation for the girls, but has a meaning. However, there are many ways to create special events and moments, while the honor of a girl's personality and comfort zone, too! Sharing stories, information and creative projects can help the girls a sense of pride and connection with the tradition of older women.

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share with her ​​some of his experiences from his own adolescence. What to think about your family, friends, or school? What is significant, meaningful or uncomfortable?

Help her examine her life to this point. What is considered to be its greatest successes? What are her memorable events? Get a small album and let her create a scrapbook of childhood as it is remembered. Help her write a few words about the main events and draw a quick illustration, if she wants. Then she can add a picture of who she is now, as it transitions into its next phase.

Take time to share the desires and hopes for the future, and feelings about the change. What is good about growing up? What will she miss?

Point out that women's cycles are all about change, but there is a rhythm to them, like the rhythm of nature. Every aspect of her month has value. Help her to predict that they will not feel the same month as long. It is natural, and seasons. Menstrual time, such as winter or dark moon is a time when your energy drains in your own needs. It is a precious time for nourishing yourself and doing things that satisfy. Many women feel less social during that time.

(seven sacred rites of menarche , by Kristi Meisenbach Boylan, can help in understanding the emotional aspects of her cycle.)

Crafts

to make a small symbol of female power to the daughter, such as simple cloth dolls.

name them and imagine what kind of life they live. What is a community of like a puppet? What are her challenges, talents and dreams? It is a creative way for girls to give voice to their dreams.

to make a bracelet together. It can be very simple, if strung on elastic or coiled wire. Her could bead for each year, with a red bead for this year, if you had your first period. Your able to reflect the period of his life, as they can remember.

Create collages together. Each one of you draw a circle on paper, to begin with. In the upper half of the circle, put more social, busy things you do, and the lower half, put the balance of things that nurture: how you care for yourself, how to compensate when you feel overwhelmed. This will show her how to use your cycle as a model for staying healthy. Every month there are more active (directed outward) phase, and more nutrients (directed inward) phase.