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 [...]

How Much Media Is Your Tween Girl Getting?

By: Amy Miller.

Media usage by children from 8 to 18 years of age has increased dramatically from five years ago according to a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. As a mom to two girls (nearly 8 and 10), I worry more and more each day about the content they’re able to access [...]

Branded: Redefining PINK

By: Linda Brodsky, MD.

From the moment we are born, girls are branded with the color pink. In the 1940s, after the previous 20 years of reverse color coding (pink boys and blue girls), a now-strange-to-us color inversion took place(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink). Since then, almost every hospital nursery in the US uses cool blue for the [...]

Helping Girls Ace Big Tests

By Ashley Leeds and Alexandra Mayzler.

I was working with a student in the library the other day, and beside me was a group of girls with open notebooks and textbooks, preparing to study for their exams. It was right after school, and these girls had yet to take a break and unwind before beginning [...]

Raising a Biracial Daughter

By: Single Momma.

There are endless challenges in the adventures of parenting for all of us. Single parenting a rambunctious and inquisitive little girl is a challenge I take on and enjoy daily. My daughter’s a fascinating little person and she’s absolutely gorgeous. Long dark hair, big brown eyes, the longest lashes I’ve ever seen [...]

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 [...]

What’s a Parent to Do? Dealing with Your Troubled Teen

By: Laura Day.

Where Did We Go Wrong?
Somewhere along the way, parents and teens have forgotten the difference between rights and privileges. As parents, we live such busy lives just trying to support our family that we feel guilty about not being able to spend as much time with our teen as we should. To [...]

The Gift of Gratitude: Why Saying “Thank You” is Important

By: Ebony Sonnenberg.

With the holiday gift-giving season all but over, there is one more gift that we can afford to give our daughters right now. It is the opportunity to say, “Thank you.” Sending these note cards have long-since been a tradition in many homes. It can be quite a task for a young [...]

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 [...]

I Told You So: Four words your daughter doesn’t need to hear

By Erik Fisher, PhD, AKA Dr E…

I was at the park the other day with my daughter and overheard a conversation between a mother and daughter. Now please understand that I do not make a habit of listening in on other’s conversations. The problem was that this mother was sitting back to back from me, [...]

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