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Ceremony Of The Sevens

Front-buttoned jacket

  • first sign of independence

The End

Thank you for your childhood

Ceremony Of The Twelves

An Assignment

  • to begin training for the future. Children are carefully watched for their personalities and intelligence. The committee then assigns each child the position that seems to best for his/her capabilities. This is the most important ceremony, as children are becoming less children and more adults. This is also the last ceremony. Once the child turns twelve, they stop counting.

Ceremony Of The Threes

Ceremony Of The Tens

Begin dream- telling

  • this helps teach children precision of language

Haircut.

  • “females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, cut their long childish hair and took on the more manly short style which exposed their ears”

Ceremony Of The Ones

This is the ceremony where babies are assigned to the family units who have applied for them. Before this ceremony, New children are not called by name.

  • this officially makes the child apart of the community, and more than just a number

Ceremony Of The Elevens

New Clothes

  • “different undergarments for the females, whose bodies were beginning to change; and longer trousers for the males, with a specially shaped pocket for the small calculator that they would use this year in school”

Ceremony Of The Nines

Bicycle.

  • “the powerful emblem of moving gradually out into the community, away from the protective family unit”

Girls hair ribbons removed

  • to show they are growing up

Ceremony Of The Eights

New clothes: Jacket with smaller buttons and a pocket.

  • for any small belonging that the children may have

Begin volunteering.

  • they are watched by the elders to help choose his/her assignment

Comfort item taken

  • shows independence; can sleep by them selves

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