Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Vicky Anscombe. Mothers and daughters can often find that their relationship is becoming hard to handle, and it’s not just puberty that can lead to a rift. Moms of toddlers and preteens often bemoan their daughter’s sudden bad attitude, and search for reasons why she can be behaving so disrespectfully towards them. If you’ve [...]
By: Linda Brodsky, MD. Genital warts. Not a pretty picture for sure. No, not our daughter. Never. Well, as in the case of any sexually transmitted disease, unless there is complete abstinence, there is no better protection than prevention. For genital warts, caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV), a new vaccine! Three shots in [...]
By: Joanna Dolgoff, MD. A new study from the journal Pediatrics finds that girls are beginning to develop breasts at the early age of 7 or 8. These results support the findings of a 1997 study that noted puberty beginning in girls at the age of 7 or 8. But why are our children starting [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. Our daughters are growing up fast – too fast according to the latest study that found American girls are reaching puberty at earlier ages than ever before bringing with it new questions about what roles the environment, genetics, and food play in early development. A recent study, published Monday, August 9, [...]
