Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. I was on my run the other day and stopped at the park to get some water. While there I sat on a bench and drank my water, I closed my eyes and listened. The happiest sounds in the world are listening to kids as they play: their little [...]
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. Magazines, television and music today are all focused on bodies. Thin, young, and beautiful bodies supposedly equate to more money, power, and fame. Our youth has never had a narrower concept of beauty, nor have they ever had the pressure of being able to pose for a photo and [...]
By: Joanna Dolgoff, MD. First there was the airbrushing of babies in magazines and now parents are starving newborns so they don’t become “fat babies”. What is this country coming to? We all know that being overweight is unhealthy and can put a person at risk for medical illness. Being too thin, however, is also [...]
By Denene Millner. Good grief, why didn’t anybody warn me? I mean, I had a bazillion dolls—most of them black with coarse hair that I spent hours combing and washing and pulling into ponytails and meticulously parting into perfect and perfectly fabulous rows of cornrows. Sometimes a piece of brown paper bag or a spare [...]
