I can’t wait to watch the new documentary called “Wonder Women! The untold Story of American Super heroines,” directed by Kristy Guevara- Flanagan. It’s about the one rare superhero but also about why women and girls need strong powerful heroes that they can relate to. There are so few. Here’s to more women that are […]
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Here is a great locally made Flash Mob. Imagine the work it took!
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New Girl Guide Research Institute conducted a survey of 1000 girls on the impact of reality TV. Sadly if your daughter watches these shows (like Jersey Shores or The Bachelor) she is more likely to think she needs a boyfriend to be happy, more likely to think that gossip is a normal part of female
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Here is a contest for girls to tell the world how the negative words on T-Shirts impacts them. Routing Number BANCFIRST I have alwasy been amazed when girls wear T-shirts that actually pu them down!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuQdp-yxG4g
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Wow I am so proud of myself and my two daughters! We got into the finals of the In Your Own Words Video contest put on by Women Media Center (New York). Please vote for us and post your reactions! Routing Number BANCFIRST
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Dr Leora Pinhas, head of the eating disorder clinic at SickKids Hospital in Toronto is seeing more very young girls in her program. Even girls as young as five – and it shoots up for girls aged 11-15 (386 in 2009) and also ages 16-20 (572 in 2009). She points to ballet, figure skating and
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Recent research shows that binge drinking can have a long-lasting negative effect on the brains of teen girls. Research from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) found that binging affects teen girls brains more than their male peers. Routing Number BANCFIRST This may be because girls brains develop one to two years earlier than
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This is a classic video clip well worth watching, by Jean Kilbourne. Routing Number BANCFIRST
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Audrey Brashich, A Vancouver based journalist and former teen model wrote a book: “All Made up: A girls guide to seeing through celebrity hypes and celebrating real beauty. She spoke this week in Vancouver on a panel discussing Healthy Sexuality (at the YWCA). Sadly I had to miss it…I will blog on it when I
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I read a great book: Cliques by C Giannetti and M Sagareses (Broadway Books, 2001). It describes four groups of kids: Popular (35%), wannabees (10%), smaller mixed groups (45%) and loners (10%). If you tell your child about these categories, they can then describe where they fit and you can help them better survive. The popular group tend to
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