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When I asked a teenager what started a recent vicious girl-fight at the high school, she said one girl called another girl “Becky.”
She didn’t want to tell me why it was bad to be called Becky.
So I Googled it and up came these lovely lyrics by Plie .
My first ...
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In The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World , Anthony Rao, Ph.D. cautions parents and educators to stop treating young boyhood as an illness.
One of the interesting things Rao says is that young boys do not naturally like eye contact.
I mentioned this at ...
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The following is a press release issued by Parents Television Council at parentstv.org. I’m printing the release in its entirety because the information is so important.
In a new special report, the Parents Television Council found that storylines depicting violence against females are ...
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Harvard Business has a fascinating and super-exciting PDF about the female impact on the economy. Check it out in The Female Economy .
Maybe its our turn . . .
As a market, women represent an opportunity bigger than China and India combined. They control $20 trillion in consumer spending, ...
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Economy
When I started The Girl Revolution I had experience being a daughter, girlfriend, wife and mother of a very young girl. It would be fair to say that I believed boys and girls are “basically the same except for social conditioning.”
The social conditioning appeared to be more ...
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My extended family likes a good practical joke especially, one that involves fear and a few screaming children.
Poor Ainsley still won’t walk down my Grandmother’s hall because of the time her Great Uncle Nelson jumped out of the closet screaming when she was three. She was terrified.
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In The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World , Anthony Rao, Ph.D. cautions parents and educators to stop treating young boyhood as an illness.
Dr. Rao has spent 20 years working with young boys. Most boys he words works with are in need of intervention in ...
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Gerard Way
New Moon is one of the very few magazines 8- to 12-year-old girls can read without advertising. It’s a bi-monthy magazine and it also has a safe online component. Girls can chat with each other, build thier own virtual rooms, create their own avatar and upload a photo of their pet, ...
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The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has finally agreed to research how companies market PG-13 advertising to preschoolers and elementary-aged children.
The idea being that if your movie is PG-13 then you should not be marketing in Happy Meals, because those are generally purchased by small ...
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Toys and Games
Michelle M. Lelwica is associate professor of religion at Concordia College and author of “ The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women’s Obsession with Food and Weight
She’s written a lovely piece in The Washington Post’s On Faith ...
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Michelle Monaghan
Weight
Oprah Winfrey
This post originally appeared on PunditMom , printed with permission.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed that I didn’t make the cut for finalists in the Washington Post’s “Next Great Pundit” contest. I’m not quite sure why the Washington Post is doing such a thing. Last time I ...
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Sarah Palin
The Washington Post ran an America’s Next Best Pundit Contest. I entered. I received an email notifying me that I am not in the 10 finalists. That would have been fun.
According to The Op-Ed Project , which is tracking by-lines in major media, The Washington Post has only 14% ...
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Sarah Palin
Motherhood
Picking up speed, finish line in sight, bursting through my personal barrier of “I can’t run”, on my Race for the Cure 5k this weekend I congratulated myself for finally filling my life with positive peer pressure.
Now, how do I translate the infinite value of ...
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Fitness
I’ve gotten to where I can’t stand the word “empowerment” anymore.
Maybe you’ve noticed as well that many of the websites, “resources” and programs out now to “empower girls” are about selling products to girls.
Okay. Whatever.
I do ...
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I took Ainsley to my annual Ob/Gyn exam yesterday.
She stayed home from school with flu symptoms from the flu mist vaccine. My husband had jury duty.
I didn’t want to reschedule, because I didn’t know how long that would take and they could hold my estrogen for ransom.
What do ...
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Sex
education
I took Ainsley to my annual Ob/Gyn exam yesterday.
She stayed home from school with flu symptoms from the flu mist vaccine. My husband had jury duty.
I didn’t want to reschedule, because I didn’t know how long that would take and they could hold my estrogen for ransom.
What do ...
