Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Richard Keane. Your little girl looks in the mirror and says: “Mommy, do my lips and eyes look like Angela Jolie?” An exclamation mark flies into your mind as you think: “The before or after?” Cosmetic surgery such as facelifts, brow lifts, dimple creation and facial reconstructions create certain looks that the media popularizes [...]
By: Maggie Ruggieri. Parents go to exhaustive lengths every day to protect their children from potential harm. We buckle their seat belts, we look both ways and hold their hand, we protect them from germs with soap and water. While we shield our kids the best we can, they still get colds, and they still [...]
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 [...]
Too much technology and multitasking do not mix for tween girls new study shows.
Does your teen or tween daughter dress too provocatively? Find out what to do…
Christina Aguilera, the amazing singer who can belt out perfectly toned notes, is no stranger to Hollywood or it’s quest for perfection – she’s been in the business since she was 17. Aguilera, the lone female judge on the hit TV show The Voice, has recently found herself the target of tabloid fodder concerning her [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. We see it all of the time everywhere we go in everything we do. It’s something that plagues all women – mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, and grandmothers. Perfectionism is societies way of reminding women that they can never quite measure up to a false sense of reality. The reality that our [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
By: Anna M. Aquino. Recently an acquaintance brought to my attention some recent trends in high school girls prom dresses. I was shocked to see a neckline almost reaching one child’s belly button. Where I went to high school, we had a strict dress code. I can remember wanting to put the nickname “Nanna Butt” [...]
