Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. A blunt new ad campaign in Georgia, “Stop Sugarcoating,” featuring images of miserable-looking overweight children is stirring up a national controversy. While the ad campaign aims to increase awareness of childhood obesity, many parents are concerned it will only cause more stigmatization of overweight kids. While I agree that these ads [...]
By: Sheena Jeffers. My students don’t know that I see them, but I do. They will turn ever so slightly to the side, looking at their body in the mirror, and then it happens… the hand moves to the stomach and they suck in. As their dance teacher, I know the “Turn and adjust” experience [...]
Our daughters get all sorts of negative messages through the media that gradually chip away at their positive body image and self- esteem. No it seems that the retail chain, Urban Outfitters, has stirred up enough controversy with their latest “teen” fad t-shirt to attract the likes of Hollywood. Sophia Bush, the One Tree Hill [...]
