How To Help Your Daughter Eat Healthy On A Play Date

By: Joanna Dolgoff, MD.

Play dates are a great way for your daughter to interact with other children, learn to share, build social skills, and most of all, have fun! But what happens when your overweight daughter comes home to tell you about the fried Oreos or fast food snack she consumed at her friend’s house?
It [...]

Sending Your Daughter to College? Get Organized and Be Prepared

By: Marie Carr.

Congratulations, your daughter has been accepted into college! Now, as parents, there are many things that you need to do. Being informed, prepared and organized makes a world of difference.
8 Essential Things To Get Parents Started:
1. Create a filing system.
Purchase and label folders such as: Bank Accounts, College Brochures, Finances, Housing, Meal [...]

Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne

Reviewed by author, Pam Allyn.

Recently, March was declared National Women’s History Month in the United States. In this spirit, Seven Brave Women celebrates the accomplishments of seven women in different generations of the author’s family. Though so much of history is discussed through the lens of war, Hearne shows how seven brave women in [...]

Is Your Daughter A “Carb-etarian”?

By: Joanna Dolgoff, MD.

It is commonly believed that a vegetarian diet is a healthy diet. And that is usually true, but not always. Consider the mother who recently told me that her child had decided to become a vegetarian. As she described his diet, I realized that he did not eat a single fruit or [...]

Solving Sibling Strife

By: Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE.

Some parents “let kids work it out” by doing nothing, but if the children use insults, humiliation, or physically duke it out, then it will only make matters worse!
Some parents will dive into the action and solve problems for their children. While this may bring peace and order quickly, it [...]

Healthy Girls for Life: Breakfast – Setting Your Daughter Up for Success

By: Linda Miner RNC, CHN, CMTA.

Imagine building a house without a foundation. It may stay standing for awhile, but eventually it will start to shift and crack and eventually collapse. Starting the day with a healthy breakfast should be considered as important to your body as a solid foundation is to a house. [...]

The Quest For A Thin Baby Girl: How Far Some Parents Will Go?

By: Joanna Dolgoff, MD.

First there was the airbrushing of babies in magazines and now parents are starving newborns so they don’t become “fat babies”. What is this country coming to?
We all know that being overweight is unhealthy and can put a person at risk for medical illness. Being too thin, however, is also not healthy [...]

5 Steps to a Calmer Evening with the Kids

By: Erin Kurt, B.Ed.

Whether you work outside the house or stay at home full-time, the toughest part of the day is the same: those frantic early evening hours when there are mouths to feed, homework to do, and cranky kids to handle. The trick is to streamline your to-do’s so you can feel calmer and [...]

Not Guilty! Learning to Let Go of Guilt and Blame.

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 [...]

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Unattainable Perfection for Both Mothers and Daughters

By: Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer.
Beauty remains one of the most pervasive and principal standards by which women are judged, regardless of their age. Both mothers and daughters struggle to meet what the media and our culture defines as beauty. Of course, these narrow standards are impossible, especially when we are expected to [...]

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