This story from the brilliant Melissa Wardy of Pigtail Pals: Buyer Beware: “Oh no, not that skirt. Horizontal stripes will make you look fatter.” -Grandmother shopping next to me says to a little girl, slapping the girl’s hand away from a really cute tiered skirt. The little girl shrinks. My mouth and Amelia’s mouth fall [...]
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‘Horizontal stripes will make you look fatter!’
Posted in Parenting on April 29, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Parents less likely to take daughters outside to play
Posted in Parenting on April 5, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Time Magazine is reporting that new research shows “preschool girls are 16% less likely than boys their age to be taken outside by their parents to play.” This is a fascinating article and you should read it. It speaks a lot to parents expectations of their children. I really think that parents still have drastically [...]
Solution for three year old’s dress obsession that makes everyone happy
Posted in Parenting on March 20, 2012 | 14 Comments »
A while back, I posted about how by the time I’ve dropped my daughter off at preschool, she’d gotten about ten comments about how cute she is and how cute her dress is. Not long after preschool started, the second someone would see her, my daughter, just like the two before her, would immediately rip [...]
Post Halloween bliss
Posted in Body image, Health, Parenting, tagged Halloween candy on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This morning my five year old went to her food shelf, got out her plastic pumpkin tub of candy, ate half a Crunch bar, and then asked for a bowl of Cheerios. I’ve posted on Reel Girl quite a bit about how I let my kids eat what they want, when they want, and however [...]
‘Not a single onesie in all of humankind had a little girl and an airplane on it’
Posted in Body image, Cool and radical girls, Education, Health, Most girlpower *GGG*, Parenting, ReelGirl recommends, Sexuality, tagged Achilles Effect, Animal Planet, Butterfly Effect, Collective Shout, Crystal Smith, Diego, Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Jackson Katz, Mamafesto, Melissa Wardy, Operation Transformation, Peggy Orenstein, Pigtail Pals, Pink Stinks, Princess Free Zone, SciGirls, Scooby-Doo, Shaping Youth, SPARK summit, Wild Kratts, Word World on October 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
After JCPenney’s “I’m too pretty to do my homework so my brother had to do it for me,” shirt for girls incited a protest that went viral, Pigtail Pals, a site that creates clothing empowering to girls, put out a best-selling shirt that reads “Pretty’s got nothing to do with it.” Now Reel Girl talks [...]
Best books on raising strong girls
Posted in Books, Cool and radical girls, Health, Most girlpower *GGG*, Parenting on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I got this excellent list via 7Wonderlicious. I haven’t read them all but look forward to. Use the links to check out the books.
How do you protect your daughter’s imagination?
Posted in Most girlpower *GGG*, Parenting, tagged Cinderella Ate My Daughter, imagination, Peggy Prenstein, raising daughters on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the monochromatic girlworld of mass-marketing, how do you protect your daughter’s imagination? As Peggy Orenstein writes in her fabulous book Cinderella Ate My Daughter, this is her major concern as a parent: How do you help these girls to remember that pink is just one color in the rainbow? With the limited, repetitive roles [...]
Oreos for breakfast? Really?
Posted in Body image, Health, Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, Marriage & family, Parenting, tagged Babble.com, eating disoders, oreos for breakfast, raising girls on June 22, 2011 | 9 Comments »
After reading ReelGirl’s ‘Notes to the babysitter‘ post on my ‘let them eat cake’ (for breakfast) approach to feeding my three daughters, Babble.com’s Madeline Holler blogs on strollerderby: No bad food, no bad food, no bad food. Come on! Oreos are bad food! But, she’s got an open mind: I remember when my daughter was [...]
Gender gap persists in imaginary world
Posted in Art, Body image, Books, Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, Media, Most stereotyping *SSS*, Movies, Parenting on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why write fiction? I’ve always loved to, but I also felt like it didn’t matter as much. Writing about politics and culture is important. If you write about ‘issues,’ you can use your writing to change the world. Or try to. Making up stories might be fun but what’s the point? Then I had three [...]
Women, alcohol, and sleep
Posted in Health, Marriage & family, Parenting, tagged drinking and parenting, drinking and sleep, DrinkingDiaries, Science Magazine, wine on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Science Magazine reports on a new study that shows alcohol affects women’s sleep more than men’s. It’s long been known that alcohol can deepen sleep during the early part of the night but disrupt sleep later in the night, something called the “rebound effect.” But there’s been little research into how alcohol’s effects on sleep [...]
