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 Art of Beauty: Reinforcing Beauty Within

By: Kathleen Semp.

As a parent we love to watch our children succeed. We want them to use those experiences to help build self-esteem and set new goals and challenges for themselves. With my oldest daughter I have found myself in a bit of a conflict. The arenas she is most successful in [...]

Little Dolls: Tenderly Tending To Every Strand of Brown Girl Hair, With a Smile

By Denene Millner.
Good grief, why didn’t anybody warn me? I mean, I had a bazillion dolls—most of them black with coarse hair that I spent hours combing and washing and pulling into ponytails and meticulously parting into perfect and perfectly fabulous rows of cornrows. Sometimes a piece of brown paper bag or a spare sponge [...]

Combating Prejudice and Racism: Teaching your daughter to respect others.

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.

The election in the United States of the first African American President, Barak Obama, was indeed a special moment in history. One that parents can use to illustrate to their daughters just how far our society has come in terms of overcoming the major hurtle of race and color. Yet, in schoolyards [...]

Is Your Daughter a Tattle Tale?

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.

If you’re a parent, then chances are you’re familiar with a bit of tattling in your life. Sure, you try to ignore it – tell your daughter to go play and “get over it,” but some girls can be truly insistent on ratting out their siblings or playmates. Tattling is the fine [...]

Clothing Wars: Learning the art of compromise when it comes to your daughter’s clothes

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.

It’s 7:15 am and my 6-year-old and I are at it again. She’s insistent on wearing blue jeans and a Star Wars t-shirt to school and I’m aghast that Yoda will take center stage in her school picture scheduled for today. Welcome to the never-ending saga of girls who know what they [...]

Bullying More Likely to Have a Lasting Impact on Girls.

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.
Bullying is a problem among young girls that is becoming more prevalent. Bullying by girls has traditionally been swept under the carpet and researchers have focused more on boys as aggressors but lately, those statistics have dramatically changed. In fact, new studies have found that not only are girls more likely to [...]

The Fine Art of Disciplining Other People’s Kids: What to Do and How to Do It

By Dr. Michele Borba.

When I was growing up, if I misbehaved I was set straight by the parent in charge. If my friends misbehaved at my house there were held accountable by my mom and dad. But parenting has changed. These days parent are much more cautious about discipline kids who are not their – [...]

Talking to Your Daughter about the Economic Crisis

By: Mary Jo Rapini, LPC.

Many couples are struggling right now during this economic crisis and it seems like there is no end in sight. I was raised in a very poor family and I remember the “money arguments” my parents used to have. It affected me as a child. Children at this age are more [...]

Raising a Tomboy

If your daughter’s a “tomboy” or “tough girl” then you are already well aware that she speaks her mind on a regular basis, prefers to play with trucks over dolls, and has no problem running through the mud with the boys. In fact, in her view, the dirtier and rougher, the better.
Tomboys are viewed [...]

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