ALT-1 Christmas Presents your Teen Girl will always Remember
A Christmas Gift Your Teen Girl Will Always Remember.
Our daughter values and remembers one gift above all our other gifts to her. She wears it all the time. It has two more hands than she does. And it sort of "speaks" to her every day.
What could it be? Bet you were thinking, when I said it had two more hands, that it was a watch. No - it's her "promise ring" - an Irish "friendship ring" with two small hands meeting in the middle. Every time she looks at it, she's reminded of the precious gift she has to give someone. This is a gift that keeps her waiting for someone very special.
She waits for the man she will one day marry. She keeps the biggest gift a woman can give her husband sacred. She looks forward to walking down the aisle in a white dress that really means something. And she looks forward with abundant joy and anticipation to her wedding night - something new and wonderful instead of something already done. Free of worrying about mistakes from the past. Old Fashioned? Maybe. But the rewards are great.
Although she's had hers nearly six years, when she is under peer pressure for being "different", she just looks down at the ring and remembers her promise.It's not a promise made out of guilt to her parents. It's a promise made out of a little girl's dreams - a reminder that she doesn't have to give in - a reminder of her great value asa person to be loved by one caring man some day. She's a happy, well-adjusted young lady.
A promise ring is usually given from parents to daughters with good relationships, where the teen girl can talk to her parents and they're not oblivious of today's culture. It's been in vogue for about fifteen years now. And contrary to what popular opinion tells us, it DOES help young women withhold themselves until the proper time.
Although there is a traditional, patented "True Love Waits Promise Ring" (available on e-bay and other sites for anywhere from $5.00 to $20.00), a promise ring can be any ring from any jewelry, department or discount store. Why? Because although our daughter's with the two hands is a special kind, any ring from loving parents to their daughter would be an appropriate gift that she will cherish, remember - and maybe hand down to her own daughter one day.
