Raising Strong Girls Together
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 [...]
Can you do as many push-ups as First Lady Michelle Obama?
By: Rachael Miller. Wondering what to get the kids for Christmas? Long gone are the days when a doll or a football would suffice; nowadays girls are as hooked on technology and gadgets as much as their adult relatives. iPads, mobile phones, laptops, 3D technology- it’s all in high demand, even for the little ones. [...]
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” [...]
By: by Mary Jo Rapini, M.Ed, LPC. I read a disturbing article in the Houston Chronicle recently, and I am hearing about it from other psychotherapists, psychologists and pediatricians. Girls are acting out, filming it and putting it up on YouTube. Oh yes, and it is getting a lot of attention. The girls are punching, [...]
By: Marilyn Wedge. Over the years, I have counseled many parents to limit their child’s TV-watching to one hour a day of PBS only and to keep the television turned off at other times. To this well intentioned advice, I am often met with looks of incredulity and even protests. “I like to watch the [...]
By: Linda Brodsky, M.D. I am guilty! Yes, in my office sometimes I forget myself when I meet a new female patient, almost always a child. As I try to establish a rapport (with the child and family) sometimes I will slip and tell the 5 year old in a pink (my favorite color after [...]
By: Linda Brodsky, MD. What could possibly be bad about singing teens on a mission to get to the nationals? Sounds like good clean fun. But the snake oil salesmen of Hollywood have once again been very successful at luring the public (that’s you and me) into the new TV show Glee (Fox network). Billed [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. This TV show his BIG – no, make that HUGE! The ABC network launched the critically acclaimed show Huge, a couple of weeks ago that highlights the struggles and triumphs of overweight teens. The show takes place at a weight loss camp and features the fun and peppy Nikki Blonsky (as [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. The Halls of Justice have been traditionally filled with male egos and superheros to match them – save for Wonder Woman, Batgirl and part of the “Super Twins” who literally had to fight twice as hard to get the recognition Super Man, Batman, and Spider Man have commanded for years. But [...]
