We need shy girls and loud girls and bright girls and sensitive girls. We need all the different kinds of girls that there are, so we have everything covered.
Continue readingWill I have to stop swimming?
What are my options if I want to swim, dance or horse-ride when I’m on my period?
Continue readingWhy are a fifth of our 14-year-old girls self-harming?
The adults in their lives can make a real difference to changing this shocking statistic.
Continue readingPeriod pencil case
A wonderful way to help your daughter feel prepared for her first period.
Continue readingFriends forever!
Dear Kim,
Thank you for bringing us all together,
Hopefully we’ll be friends forever.
We will live our lives feeling very lucky,
Even though our pants might get red and yucky.
We giggled and laughed at the funnier facts,
Then we sat still and dropped our eyes to our laps.
Thank you, dear Kim, for letting us come,
You have made this year a lot of fun.
From Izzy W
Every spring I begin my new Girls Journeying Together groups, for preteen girls to meet monthly for a year to learn about the changes that lie ahead, feel what it’s like when you can be yourself in a group of peers and make friends for life.  My groups are full to capacity but Rites for Girls is training facilitators to offer Girls Journeying Together around the world, so new groups will be starting all over the country later this year.
Just before my new groups begin, the previous year’s groups come to the end of their first year which we mark with a special celebration. It’s more than a party, something to remember for the rest of their lives. This year the girls want to share with you videos that they made.  They want more girls to have the opportunity they’ve had.
My daughter’s not herself…
One in four girls is clinically depressed by the time they turn 14, what can we do to change that?
Continue readingIs she over-reacting?
In the teen years the world does not look like it did as a child, or how it will as an adult.  Teens’ brains are under reconstruction and they really do feel things more intensely.
Continue readingWhat did you want most at 13?
I wonder what you most wanted at thirteen… and what you imagine today’s thirteen year old girls wish for…?
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