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Teach a Tribe
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Tween Speak

We've created MyTribe, a website just for our Tribe girls. There, they created their own wise sayings. Here's a sample of their creations:

If it is love, take the chance -- get loved. -Tara

Being kind is an adventure. -Clementine

Respect is easy to want and hard to find. -Olivia

Chase your dreams. -Elinor

If you beleieve in your heart you can do anything. -Clementine

What's Up in Our Tribes
From the Forest of Forever Wanting to the Playground of Wisdom, our girls journeyed through exciting terrain, discovered deep truths, and giggled, giggled, giggled. Don't miss our movie of the girls' cheers -- it'll brighten you day! 

Mission.

Our mission is to help girls understand their own emotions and learn how to create authentic, nurturing friendships. We use storytelling, circle sharing, creative movement and artistic expression to help girls experience and express their full selves. The Parent Tribe is an e-newsletter designed to educate the parents and caregivers of tween-aged girls. We hope you will enjoy reading it, whether or not you have a child in one of our Tribes. [archive]    Subscribe 

Holiday Gift: Tween Tribe Stories

As a special holiday offer, we're making some of our original Tween Tribe stories available for you to read and share with your family. Click here during the month of December.

Giveaway Girls

How do we teach our children that giving and receiving are profound experiences: a way to express love, celebrate our altruistic side, and honor ourselves, our loved ones and our beliefs?

This month in our Tribes we will share a Native American “giveaway ceremony” as a way of doing just that. In the words of Julie Spotted Eagle Horse Cooper “a giveaway ceremony is a way of showing one’s personal wealth by giving it away, and of keeping one’s possessions to a minimum… The idea was to never keep more than you needed, the rest was to be shared with those who needed it more than you. The more you gave away to others, the wealthier you were perceived to be. If you put out good…it comes back.” Arrow

Giveaway Girl--One Mom's Story

“Mom, I know how this is going to sound and I know that this probably means that I am selfish, but I like my things and I don’t want to give them away!” Our eyes meet and she huffs, tapping her hand on her thigh, “I can’t give away my tamagachi, it’s on its third generation and its part of my family! It would be like you giving me away!” She looks up, brown eyes wide and troubled, “and I can’t give away Alex,” she pleads, cupping the sparkling stuffed turtle in her hands, “he’s like my child.” Arrow