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Gentle Passages: Guiding Your Daughter into Womanhood

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I am a huge fan of Robin Jones Gunn..have litterly grown up with her books! Even though I don't have kids and am not married I had to buy the newsest book by my favorite author. I read this book within 30 minutes and just had tears in my eyes..just thinking about the day when I get to do these awesome things with my daughter. This book puts in simple ways how you make this journey into womenhood so much more special. I read about the Wildflower dreams from Ms. Gunn's book "Until Now" and quickly went and found my own wildflowers. I am looking for the opporutnity to start the china plate tradition with my little sister as well as with my aunts and my mother. THank You Mrs. Gunn for a wonderful and much needed book!

This is a wonderful little book full of ideas for ways to help ease your daughter, or other girl in your life, into womanhood. Many generations never talked about these things and it is helpful to me to have some ideas. I modified the idea about the china plate and used it with a girls' Sunday School class I teach. They had a sleep over at my house and I served them cream puffs on my grandmother's china while I talked to them bout being "God's fine china plate". You can easily adapt some of these ideas to fit your needs. I am sure there are people out there who don't need help with this but it is a very sweet book and it sure helped me! This would also make a great gift to a friend whose daughter is just entering this stage of life. It is set up beautifully and very much a "gift book", not just informational.

I loved this book from the first time I picked it up, even though I knew I would not present most of the items the way they were in the book. LOVE the china plate idea, even though we are not a sentimental, let's have a tea party type family. We still found a way to incorporate the idea. When our daughter turned 13, we gave her the plate for her birthday. We, of course, explained what it meant and we got a plate hanger and hung it on her bedroom wall. She has gotten the chance to explain it to her friends over the years when they want to know what she is doing with a plate hanging on her wall. Gives them food for thought.... I also will go in her room before she is going out with friends or on a date now that she is older (17) and will point to it and remind her not to forget. We are planning on her and her husband eating their first slice of wedding cake on it, like it suggests in the book. There are ways to use the ideas in the book without having to copy everything to the letter.

I bought this book for my neices and they really enjoyed it.The book was in good shape and I was happy with it.Thanks

Enjoyed this gift book on easing a daughter or other dearly loved girl into being a lady. I cannot wait to share some of these ideas with my own daughters and nieces one day.

I've read just about everything Robin Jones Gunn has ever written and published, but this book is one of the most life changing books I've ever read.

I've already shared and recommended it to several friends and family members because the ideas contained in this book are priceless. At a time where all you see on the news is how young people are not getting an education, not learning how to be responsible people, not being taught how to live and grow, this book shows you a few ways to encourage your daughters, neices, grandaughters to be special. There are practical and simple ideas for parents to use to gently and elequoently guide young girls in their life changes from child to woman emotionally, physically and spiritually. simple things like remind them how much God wants the best for them, encourage them to remain pure for the 1 person in the world that God has created for them to someday spend the rest of their lives with, even if they arent even yet thinking of boyfriends. And a way to make becoming a woman something to celebrate, not suffer through.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a young girl in thier life, ages 7 and up.

Excellent book. An amazing concept for mothers or grandmothers to share with their daughters and granddaughters preferably before or at the beginning of puberty.

Did not help me at all. It is a sweet story of one mother's traditions; but, unless you would follow instructions on how to give a tea party that uses a pretty china plate as a symbol of purity to be guarded and kept, it's sweet and pointless.