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A new study has come out pointing to the idea that a television drama is a better way to move teens to action or alter teens’ behavior than giving them a news story focused on facts. The study gave students a fact-based news story about teen pregnancy and showed an episode of The OC. The […]
According to an article, Puberty gap: Obesity splits boys, girls on MSNBC.com, new studies have indicated that the current obesity epidemic among children is causing boys to hit puberty later than previous generations. Girls appear to be hitting puberty one to two years earlier than previous generations. Theories on what might cause late puberty in […]
This guy in my Sunday school class, Thomas Ratliff, is running for Texas State School Board. He’s the moderate Republican opposing a right-wing conservative Christian Republican, Don McLeroy. McLeroy is a dentist who leads a majority voting bloc on the Texas State School Board, which is literally rewriting American history in textbooks from a Christian, […]
The other day a group of junior high boys were laughing about having pantsed a girl. One of them had pulled her pants down and it was extra-hilarious that she was wearing a thong. I told them that was actually the criminal offense of sexual assault. I told them if I were the principal, I […]
Self Magazine is taking nominations for Women Doing Good. SELF is looking for extraordinary womenwho make a difference and work tirelessly so others may live better lives. That woman could be you or someone you knowa woman driven by compassion, who truly strives to improve her community, the environment or the world around her. The […]
The White House Project, a non-profit which aims to put a woman in The White House as President of the United States, has some great insight and advice on women’s relationship with personal finance. Several different studies by researchers at Pepperdine University, McKinsey & Co., Catalyst and othershere and abroadhave found a strong, positive link […]
The proposed United States Budget, currently before Congress, includes a little-publicized, no-drama, brilliant piece of funding and legislation. This is brilliant. This is long overdue. Currently, in the United States of America many disability insurance programs do not include pregnancy or birth, nor are they legally required to. Never mind that you’re not medically allowed […]
Oprah’s discussion with sex offenders got me thinking. Hopefully it had this effect on you. Stranger Danger is . . . well, it’s very unlikely harm comes from a stranger. In fact less than 10% of all rape, molestation and battery of girls and women comes from a stranger. So how do parents walk the […]
Anyone who has children should watch the two hours of Oprah’s Conversation with Child Molesters. The molesters are candid and as honest as they know how to be. It should make parents Fear Less and tune into their Intuition More. There are four molesters who confess a great deal: one old man who molested a […]
An International Violence Against Women Act has been introduced in Congress. Any country that allows acts of violence and terrorism against its own girls and women is a country that would also commit an act of violence and terrorism against The United States and any other country it deems unacceptable. Countries that educate girls, economically […]
Today my Mom yelled at me. So I cried until the room was a lake. ~Ainsley (The cartoon mother (me) is screaming Get Off The Table!) I’m certainly not proud of the yelling and I did apologize. Still, as a writer, I can’t help but show you my parenting flaw, so you can see the […]
My name is Kevin and I’m 17 years old. I discovered your website and thought you might have some good insight on an experience I had involving a girl’s image of her body. She was a girl I had just met at a dance a few weeks ago. We talked for a good half hour […]
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