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Making a personalised Menarche (first period) box for your daughter

Would you like to purchase or make your daughter a first period box? Here's some ideas and links to some lovely products to add to your...

Ideas for celebrating your daughter's first period

Has your daughter begun her period recently? Or would you like to prepare for when she does? Here's some ideas for how to gently honour...

What does Menarche mean and why we should bring the word back into our vocabulary?

I interchange the terms first period and menarche quite a bit nowadays, but I am well-aware that for most, the term Menarche is not used...

How, when and why I wrote The Moon Child - a children's book about periods.

I wrote The Moon Child in the middle of the night in February 2021. I do lots of my creative thinking then as I'm so busy with the girls...

Author Q & A on Partnership Publishing's Website!

When I wrote The Moon Child and decided that I'd like to find a way to get it published, I spoke to quite a few publishers about the...

5 things our girls should know before they start their period

As parents of daughters, we are only just relaxing into the post preschooler years, tantrums have subsided ( or become less-frequent at...

Learning to Love and Trust the body I'm in.

In my late 20's, I started to diet and get fit in preparation for my wedding. Unlike many of my friends, I hadn't been on a weight-loss...

Resources on puberty, menstruation and body-positivity (My faves)

This is a non-exhaustive list of my favourite resources so far. All of which I have personally used, read and own. I will periodically...