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Did you see my series on the book So Sexy So Soon? Authors Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne made a very compelling argument that companies – with their marketing – are making humans sexually attracted to objects. They are sexualizing objects. We used to be worried women would be turned into objects via porn – […]
<a href =”https://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1340570/” >How much exercise/physical play do your kids get? </a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”https://www.polldaddy.com”> surveys</a>)</span>
I bought that book Eat This, Not That! and already I’ve found a list of foods where I’m totally falling for the lies on the packaging. Eat This, Not That! is crafted to specifically target belly fatby filling you with smart, healthy choices that rev up your resting metabolism and helping you burn away flab […]
America’s kids are fat. Parents are taking the blame. Aren’t parents ultimately responsible for their kids’ health? But, this nice and tidy excuse rubs me the wrong way. It rubs me in the same way that the pornification of girls’ Halloween costumes rubs me. Parents don’t make the costumes. Parents don’t pose girls provocatively on […]
Scholastic’s Parent and Child Magazine is hoping to feature THE very best Mommy Bloggers out there. The Girl Revolution is honored to have been nominated. Please take 2 seconds right now to visit the site and enter your email address and this website address: www.thegirlrevolution.com. It would be such a prestigious and exciting thing for […]
I’m pleased to introduce Alexis Saint as a Guest Writer on The Girl Revolution. Alexis is a personal friend of mine. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and Guidance and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Intern. She is also the mother of five-year-old Sarah, one of our beautiful Poster Girls in the rotating […]
Yesterday, in Fit Girls: Weight = Moral Failure, we talked about how having a moderately overweight child isn’t necessarily a moral failure, but a side effect of prosperity. And then there was the Oprah Show with those severely obese teenagers. Sometimes its a form of neglect. Those parents are guilty of of neglect. These are […]
Let’s talk about the feeling of failure parents feel when they realize their kids weigh too much – or too little. You’re in the doctor’s office and she announces your child is overweight, in the red zone and a feeling of failure quickly follows. I’ve heard exactly the same feelings from parents who are told […]
“If we dont get serious about putting women into the leadership pipeline, we (will raise) the aspirations of a generation of American girls without doing enough to actually make their ambitions achievable, Marie Wilson, The White House Project. This year we will have 17 women in the US Senate and at least 74 women in […]
There are millions of parents out there who, like me, worry about their children’s weight and the weight of children in general. 16 percent of children (over 9 million) 6-19 years old are overweight or obese In the last 3 decades the childhood obesity rate has tripled for children aged 6-11 years. Overweight adolescents have a […]
Remember when they gave us Generation X – which basically meant that were were hopeless slackers? Gee that was fun. We’d wallow in our Baby Boomer parents shadow, drifting aimlessly? Even in The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream , John Zogby is calling us the Nike Generation. […]
I think so, Claire Mysko thinks so, therefore must be that You’re Amazing! Mysko wrote this book, Girls Inc. Presents: You’re Amazing!: A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self, to help your daughter feel like she is as amazing as you know she is. Read the review.
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