Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Sam Luther. As the US and UK population’s obesity numbers continue to grow, attention is being drawn to how schools encourage children to participate in sport. A recent report showed that schools are really letting girls down when it comes to encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Perhaps if we can combat this and increase sport [...]
By: Connie Young. In today’s society Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are often terms that are thrown around like candy. Everyone has it or knows someone who has it or who thought they had it but don’t anymore. Are therapists leaning too heavily on this diagnosis when they don’t know [...]
By: By Erik Fisher, PhD, AKA Dr E… Kudos to the British and their Advertising Standards Agency. Recently they banned make-up ads from Uber-star Julia Roberts and Uber-model Christy Turlington due to excessive use of digital manipulation. The claim was that this was basically false advertising for the product they were pitching with their photos. [...]
Motherhood always comes as a surprise to me. Just when I think I completely understand my daughters, I suddenly find that I don’t. But it is these constant changes in personality and attitude are what makes being a parent exciting – one day my 4-year-old loves the color blue (and insists on drinking out of [...]
By: Anna M. Aquino. We all remember the awkward moments in childhood when our parents tried to set us down and give us the dreaded conversation about the ‘birds and the bees.’ Usually the talk was as if someone was dragging their fingernails over the chalk board for both parties in the conversation. It’s known [...]
By Joanne Stern, PhD. Clothes are a very powerful way to communicate. They connote certain things about who you are and give specific messages-to express anger or sophistication, to flirt and indicate that you’re ready for a sexual encounter, or to show the world that you’re prim and proper. Clothes can be used to attract [...]
By: Denene Millner. This is the way it seemed to always work: A few weeks before Valentine’s Day, whatever loser I was dating at the time would break up with the kid. For just the most random of reasons. “I feel like we need to slow down and be friends.” “You’re a great girl—I’m just [...]
By: Annie Fox, M.Ed. The year our daughter turned 15 she announced that she didn’t want us to buy her any “stuff” for Hanukkah. Huh? Did I hear that right? No stuff? What’s going on? Did she still love us? Wasn’t she grateful for the many very carefully selected gifts she’d received since… birth? Was [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. Bullying is a problem among young girls that is becoming more prevalent. Bullying by girls has traditionally been swept under the carpet and researchers have focused more on boys as aggressors but lately, those statistics have dramatically changed. In fact, new studies have found that not only are girls more likely [...]
