About the AuthorJANET LUCY, M.A., is the Founder/Director of Women's Creative Network (WCN) in Santa Barbara, California, and has been a teacher and counselor for over thirty years. She leads womens writing groups, workshops, and retreats internationally. Her work has been published in numerous magazines. TERRI ALLISON is the Executive Director of Storyteller Childrens Center, an early care program for homeless and at risk preschoolers, and has been a teacher and educational administrator for over thirty years. She works with girls through the Coming-of-Age program at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara. is there an app that reads books to you Moon Mother, Moon Daughter
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Must read for parents with daughtersBy amyFor those of us whose education on becoming a woman focused on how to use a maxipad, this a great guide to help our daughters.This is a great collection of personal stories, mythology and history.5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Wonderful guidance to help moms look forward to and appreciate adolescence with their daughtersBy Story Circle Book Reviews"Conventional femininity cannot be our guide. We are reinventing the feminine. And most of us have barely begin to appreciate the value of the enormity of this task." --Hope Edelman, Motherless DaughtersMoms: Wouldn't it be nice to anticipate and have as much joy in your daughter turning into a woman as you did with her first smiles, steps and words? Wouldn't it be great to have the confidence in guiding your daughter as she crossed the threshold into womanhood? Moon Mother, Moon Daughter: Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming-of-Age can help you discover and embrace such a journey with your daughter.Moon Mother, Moon Daughter: Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming-of-Age is chewy and concise, informing moms about how they can honor the sacredness of being female. Authors Lucy and Allison weave moon and goddess mythology and provide a myriad of activities for moms and daughter to do independently and together--to encourage reflection, introspection, understanding, and celebration of becoming and being a woman.Among topics addressed in the book are the value of spending time alone, how to guide your daughter in awakening and connecting to her inner wisdom and intuition, how to guide her in finding and having confidence in expressing her voice, and the power of honoring your body.As the cover of Moon Mother, Moon Daughter promises, the advice has new-age overtones, using the moon as a guide and metaphor (the most sacred feminine) throughout the book. However, any mom (including this one) can easily draw upon the ideas and tweak them to fit into and guide her relationship with her daughter. This is a terrific book with wonderful goddess mythology to share and empowering ideas from which to borrow. This mom is looking forward to using some of them with her daughters.Note: Moon Mother, Moon Daughter: Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming-of-Age is geared for moms of daughters ages ten-thirteen.by Judy Millerfor Story Circle Book Reviewsreviewing books by, for, and about women4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Timeless and TimelyBy Kate FarrellWritten with clarity and heart, Moon Mother, Moon Daughter, is an invitation to all mothers and daughters who want an inspired guide through the pre-teen and teen years. Drawing from the ageless goddess traditions, Janet Lucy and Terri Allison entertain us with stories, myths, and legends that empower young women. In this delightful book, we learn or remember the cultures that valued the feminine and recall the powerful goddesses from the Virgin Mary to Kwan Yin, including a pantheon of divine female deities: Inanna, Hera, Isis, Demeter and Persephone, Tara, Artemis, Hina, the nine Muses, and of course, Gaia.These stories empower and inform the book's activities and rituals for a coming of age daughter--not through goddess worship, but through a renewed sense of power, legacy, and the feminine potential. I so enjoyed the retelling of the Native American Spider Woman who taught weaving to the Navajo people and then to learn that this archetype is one of the most ancient for female power. The authors then apply these traits to a modern social context in describing women's ways of leadership.I heartily recommend this well written guide to all mothers and daughters: it is timeless, timely, universal and personal!Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter's Memories of Mother