Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Anna M. Aquino. It seems to me that our society is moving further and further from the concept of the value of hard work and has shifted into a society that thinks that the perks in life are owed to them just by a matter of their being. Many have lost the value of [...]
By: Thomas Weck. This winter try something different with your children to cure the winter blues. Instead of simply reading to them from the books on their shelf, why not come up with your own story? Storytelling is a time-honored tradition, handed down from generation to generation. In some cases, handed-down stories turn into beautifully [...]
By: Melissa Linton. A battle brews every day and has for ages between parents and teens. Teens think their parents are too old and don’t understand “their world” and parents think their teens are too young and inexperienced for the “real world”. Teenagers of every generation have used slang to talk to each other in [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. In case you haven’t noticed, “texting” has become a common language amongst tween and teenage girls. To the dismay of teachers and parents – gone are the days of grammatically correct sentences and noun and verb agreement. Instead, today’s tech savvy girls are parting ways with traditional languages in exchange for [...]
By: Steve Sisgold. As a parent, a child advocate, and the teacher of a workshop titled, Boosting Your Child’s BQ: How To Empower and Not Discourage Our’s Children’s Innate Body Wisdom, I am concerned how disconnected our daughter’s minds are from their body’s wisdom. If I had to pinpoint the #1 reason why there is [...]
