Ideas for ';Girl Talk'; with 5th and 6th grade girls...?

Hi everyone!



At work I am leading a group called Girl Talk this year. It's a weekly meeting for 5th and 6th grade girls (the oldest in my school) to get together and discuss pressures of being a teenage girl. I know that in the past, topics have been healthy eating habits and eating disorders, teen pregnancy, peer pressure, etc.



I need some fresh ideas, and also fresh approaches to the older ideas to mix it up this year. What things are adolescent girls struggling with right now and how could we address them in Girl Talk?



Thanks for your input!Ideas for ';Girl Talk'; with 5th and 6th grade girls...?
That's great they have this! I wish they had this when I was in 6th grade.



-Tell them if someone is touching them in a 'no zone' then to tell someone.! My friend just went thought that.



-How boyfriends/people can abuse you at least 4 ways. [Sexual, Emotional, Mental and Physical]



-Rape/ Unwanted sex %26amp; pressure having it.



-Appearance %26amp; how it's okay that everyone body type is not the same. %26amp; model skinny isn't they way to go.



-Grades.



-Dating. When to have sex, whether or not to have sex, birth control, getting pregnant, STDs, and other issues



-FRIENDS! and that good friends can leave your side sometimes. and if a friend is treating you horrible, then its time to let them go.



-bullying and being bullied



-Period %26amp; everything that goes with it. [pads,tampons, etc.]



-Hurting Them self [suicide, thoughts,cutting,depression, if they know someone who's hurting them to tell someone ]



-Bodies Changing [hips, hair, periods, etc]





Also, have all the girls write on a piece of paper what they would like to talk about. They don't have to put there name on it at all. Just things they would like to discuss in the 'lesson.'

Tell them if they ever need ANYTHING at all [sex, periods, etc] that they can talk to you or whomever:DD

Good Luck!Ideas for ';Girl Talk'; with 5th and 6th grade girls...?
you can talk to them about boys and how they can touch you and rape you and you can talk to them about theyre periods and how to not panic and all that stuff...
suicidel thoughts, cutting, depresion, anything like that. Also talk about their body changing. Maybe briefly talk about rape.
Hi! I am about that age and what's always fun and beneficial is team building.
Depression (they are going through puberty and will experiences a lot of emotional changes)



Boys (most of them are getting first ';boyfriends'; at that age)



These are basically the two main things I would concentrate on.

-Catherine
I would tell them about faith and guys and how to make the two work out.



Also about people who um... aren't straight and to encourage them to tell someone if they're lesbian and what it is and that sort of thing.