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Making New Friends Isn’t Always Easy
As we get older, meeting new people can become surprisingly difficult. Our lives get busy. We work. We take care of families. We manage businesses, careers, relationships, school schedules, appointments, and everything else life brings.
We can be surrounded by people and still realize:
“I would really like to meet some new women.”
Research supports just how important those relationships can be. The U.S. Surgeon General’s advisory on social connection describes social connection as an important contributor to individual and community health and notes that social isolation and loneliness are associated with increased risks for several serious health outcomes.
But creating community requires opportunities to actually meet.
That’s why we’re creating the table.
And We Want Our Girls at the Table, Too
Tea With the Girls isn’t only for adult women.
Girls ages 9 and older are invited, too.
We want our girls to have opportunities to sit in spaces where they can talk, laugh, practice meeting new people, build confidence, and experience positive interactions between women of different generations.
Healthy development is strongly influenced by relationships. Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child explains that responsive relationships with caring adults help support children’s development and can help buffer the effects of adversity and stress.
There’s something beautiful about creating more opportunities for those relationships and conversations to happen naturally.
- A daughter can sit beside her mother.
- A niece can come with her auntie.
- A granddaughter can enjoy tea with her grandmother.
- A teenager might meet a business owner, educator, entrepreneur, artist, professional, or another girl her age.
- And sometimes the conversation doesn’t have to be profound.
Sometimes two people simply discover:
“Wait—you like that too?”
And a connection begins.
Different Generations. One Table.
Imagine a table with a 10-year-old, a college student, a 35-year-old professional, a mother, an entrepreneur, and a grandmother.
Different experiences.
Different perspectives.
Different generations.
One table.
That’s the community we want Tea With the Girls to become.
You don’t need to fit into a particular group.
You don’t need to already know someone.
And you definitely don’t need to bring a group of friends with you.
Come with your daughter, mother, sister, auntie, niece, granddaughter, girlfriend, or coworker.
Or…
Come solo.
We’ll be expecting you.
There’s a seat at the table for you.