Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Stephanie Burch. The “tween” years (age between childhood and the teenage years, approximately ages 9-12) are especially hard years for girls. Not only are they facing many changes in their bodies and emotions but they are also making big changes in school, responsibility, and the social world. For some girls it seems to be [...]
By: Teri Blommaert, M.Ed. Although my partner and I didn’t receive allowances growing up, we wanted our girls to develop better money smarts than we had, so allowance was always part of our parenting plan. When our girls were six and eight, we were ready to get started. The easy part was finding many excellent [...]
By: Signe Whitson, LSW. How does a mother explain how her preschooler remembers every detail of an episode of The Backyardigans, but can’t for the life of her remember where the puzzles go at cleanup time? What’s really going on with a fourth-grader who quotes verbatim the whispered conversations of faraway classmates, but insists that [...]
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. Bullying is thought of as being an ordinary passage of growing up. We all remember being pelted with some sort of hurtful words. Some kids remember being beaten up on the playground. Although this wounded many children of generations past, it wasn’t always taken seriously. When we hear the [...]
By: Dyan Eybergen, RN. When asked what makes them happy at school, kids most often answer: friends! Children have better attitudes about education and learning when they have friends at school. It’s important for your daughter to adopt healthy attitudes about school and learning. Beliefs regarding education should first be modeled by parents; however, this [...]
By: Kathleen Semp. As a parent we love to watch our children succeed. We want them to use those experiences to help build self-esteem and set new goals and challenges for themselves. With my oldest daughter I have found myself in a bit of a conflict. The arenas she is most successful in are often [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. The election in the United States of the first African American President, Barak Obama, was indeed a special moment in history. One that parents can use to illustrate to their daughters just how far our society has come in terms of overcoming the major hurtle of race and color. Yet, in [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. If you’re a parent, then chances are you’re familiar with a bit of tattling in your life. Sure, you try to ignore it – tell your daughter to go play and “get over it,” but some girls can be truly insistent on ratting out their siblings or playmates. Tattling is the [...]
By Dr. Michele Borba. When I was growing up, if I misbehaved I was set straight by the parent in charge. If my friends misbehaved at my house there were held accountable by my mom and dad. But parenting has changed. These days parent are much more cautious about discipline kids who are not their [...]
If your daughter’s a “tomboy” or “tough girl” then you are already well aware that she speaks her mind on a regular basis, prefers to play with trucks over dolls, and has no problem running through the mud with the boys. In fact, in her view, the dirtier and rougher, the better. Tomboys are viewed [...]
