Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Harry H Harrison Jr. Look, I’ve been in your shoes. You buy and buy and charge and buy for thirty days then early Christmas morning as you’re putting the finishing touches on building a tricycle that’s only taken ten hour to complete, you look at all the presents under the tree and discover a [...]
By: Gary M. Unruh MSW LCSW. Asking children repeatedly to complete chores or homework seems like just one more roadblock to effective parenting. It is…and here’s why. Parents focus on behavior — their daughter’s outside part — and miss the her inside parts: feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and, most importantly, trust in one’s self-worth. When a [...]
By Joanne Stern, PhD. Only a few short decades ago there was a prevailing belief that motherhood was the highest and holiest calling for a woman and that being a mom was an achievement that fully identified every mother. Today, millions of women will attest that it isn’t true. Nearly half the workforce is comprised [...]
By: Linda Brodsky, MD. Women, especially we mothers, can be our own harshest critics. And when we don’t live up to our own very high expectations, we experience one of the most destructive feelings—guilt. We take the blame. We carry the responsibility. And we always find fault. With ourselves and with our performance as mothers. [...]
