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The following is a press release issued by Parents Television Council at parentstv.org. I’m printing the release in its entirety because the information is so important. In a new special report, the Parents Television Council found that storylines depicting violence against females are increasing and being shown more graphically and in ways that have not […]
Harvard Business has a fascinating and super-exciting PDF about the female impact on the economy. Check it out in The Female Economy. Maybe its our turn . . . As a market, women represent an opportunity bigger than China and India combined. They control $20 trillion in consumer spending, and that figure could reach $28 […]
My extended family likes a good practical joke especially, one that involves fear and a few screaming children. Poor Ainsley still wont walk down my Grandmothers hall because of the time her Great Uncle Nelson jumped out of the closet screaming when she was three. She was terrified. When Uncle Nelson made his annual pilgrimage […]
In The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World, Anthony Rao, Ph.D. cautions parents and educators to stop treating young boyhood as an illness. Dr. Rao has spent 20 years working with young boys. Most boys he words works with are in need of intervention in some way. Some of […]
The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has finally agreed to research how companies market PG-13 advertising to preschoolers and elementary-aged children. The idea being that if your movie is PG-13 then you should not be marketing in Happy Meals, because those are generally purchased by small children. Nor should commercials run during television shows mean for […]
Michelle M. Lelwica is associate professor of religion at Concordia College and author of “The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women’s Obsession with Food and Weight She’s written a lovely piece in The Washington Post’s On Faith section. Like Lelwica, I too believe that many, many issues and disorders women and girls […]
This post originally appeared on PunditMom, printed with permission. Id be lying if I said I wasnt disappointed that I didnt make the cut for finalists in the Washington Posts Next Great Pundit contest. Im not quite sure why the Washington Post is doing such a thing. Last time I checked with Katie Orenstein from […]
The Washington Post ran an America’s Next Best Pundit Contest. I entered. I received an email notifying me that I am not in the 10 finalists. That would have been fun. According to The Op-Ed Project , which is tracking by-lines in major media, The Washington Post has only 14% female representation on its Op-Ed […]
Picking up speed, finish line in sight, bursting through my personal barrier of “I can’t run”, on my Race for the Cure 5k this weekend I congratulated myself for finally filling my life with positive peer pressure. Now, how do I translate the infinite value of surrounding one’s self with positive people going in the […]
I’ve gotten to where I can’t stand the word “empowerment” anymore. Maybe you’ve noticed as well that many of the websites, “resources” and programs out now to “empower girls” are about selling products to girls. Okay. Whatever. I do feel the need to point out that no human being’s power is derived from stuff. This […]
I took Ainsley to my annual Ob/Gyn exam yesterday. She stayed home from school with flu symptoms from the flu mist vaccine. My husband had jury duty. I didn’t want to reschedule, because I didn’t know how long that would take and they could hold my estrogen for ransom. What do you have to go […]
I’m a fan of Logan Levkoff, author of Third Base Ain’t What It Used to Be: What Your Kids Are Learning About Sex Today- and How to Teach Them toBecome Sexually Healthy Adults which I reviewed here. Last week she wrote a story for The Huffington Post, You Don’t have to Be Barbie: Girls and […]
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