It's Time For A Village Meeting: Awakening Moms, Reclaiming Our Girls

"It takes a village" is a proverb that leverages the cultural context and belief that it takes an entire community to raise a child. In truth, a girl has a better chance at a successful life if everyone is taking a part in her rearing. Raising a girl should be a family and friends' affair. We should have healthy relationships among ourselves to pass down to her. She should see us having healthy conversations and interactions. In It's Time for a Village Meeting: Awakening Moms, Reclaiming Our Girls, Sherilyn Bennett charges moms to reflect on their lives and ask themselves, "What must I do to turn things around for her?" and "How can I heal myself so that she can see that healing is possible? "