Years ago I taught basic photography and written expression tips to a group of Girl Scouts.  They created photo albums and scrapbooks with images and words to convey their thoughts and realities.  I asked if they would like to see those sorts of things from their moms when they were the same age.  The response was overwhelmingly positive, but when I asked the moms where the old red diaries with the tiny keys were stored, they confessed that most of those things were long-since gone.  Not only did the daughters not have a view of life leading to womanhood, but the mothers also did not have the perspectives about themselves and their daughters that could enrich them both.