Raising Strong Girls Together
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: Linda Brodsky, MD. Role modeling is one of the cornerstones of good parenting. For mothers, like you and me, our values are reflected not only in our behavior but also in our appearance. These values are communicated every day and in every way. Overwhelmed? No surprise if you are. Most of us find this [...]
By Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer. “I grew up hearing the story of my mother riding on the train from Brooklyn to Long Island. She was pregnant with me while holding my sister on her lap, who, for the entire train ride wouldn’t stop screeching. When we were teenagers, my mother told my [...]
