Entries by Tracee

So Sexy So Soon

I’m currently reading this book for review, I’ll let you know what I think about its strategies for parents when I finish.

Parenting Olympic Gymnasts

The Olympics are always an exciting time, to see those teenagers and early adults become the best in the world. It’s awe-inspiring. I want to do that! Ainsley said about her newest Heroine Gou Jing Jing. Those children train every day from the time they are 3 years old for hours and hours. They don’t […]

What Do YOU Want?

I’d like a better idea of who my audience is and what YOU want from this site. I won a blog critique from Chris G at chrisg.com. If the co-author of theProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income tells you to move your site and give it a makeover – well, you […]

10 Antidotes to Self-Objectification & Sexualization of Girls

Self Objectification occurs when girls believe the media and cultural messages that tells her she exists for male sexual entertainment. Sexualization of Girls is what the media and cultural messages designed to make her believe that her purpose is to be consumed and that her value is relational to men finding her sexually appealing. Self […]

Empowering Girls: Happy

The greatest gift a parent can give a child, Tracee, is the ability to become independently happy. And the greatest gift a child can give a parent is exercising that ability. An email affirmation/meditation from Tut.com I’d settle for that and call it parenting success.

Empowering Girls: Breast Cancer Risks

Parents should be aware that there are three things that increase a girl’s risk for breast cancer: * If she starts her period early. * If she does not have one baby before age 30. * If she does not breastfeed. From an interview with Teresa Knight, a St. Louis, MO OB/GYN with a Masters […]

Empowering Girls: Hootchy Clothes

If you are using words like hootchy, skank, slut, whore or any other sexually derogatory word to describe the clothing (whether inappropriate or not) of any girl you are an active participant in further sexualizing girls. If you are teaching your daughter (or sons) to use sexually derogatory words to describe other girls’ clothing you […]

Empowering Girls: Gossip Girl's Alison Tarrant

One major girl influence I would define as anti-girl is Gossip Girl. An Ad Age article declares Alison Tarrant one of the 2008 Women to Watch. It is the #1 show for girls 12-17. (Hello, Parents have you WATCHED this show? Make friends with the blocking system on your DVR already.) The senior VP-integrated sales […]

Empowering Girls: Olympic Hero's

Char has a great post on the 30 Olympians In Their Teens over at Weary Parent. The Olympics have served all of us in our lives as a source for some pretty good heros and role models. Who doesn’t remember Mary Lou Retton? Watch with your kids and talk to them about what kind of […]

Math: It's A Tie

Stop what you’re doing right now and dance a little gig. This is a big moment in girl evolution, a big moment in feminism, a big moment for education and a big moment for the future of the United States of America. Girls and boys are officially equal in their math scores, at all grades, […]

Y's Letter to My Body

Yvonne from Joy Unexpected read this as the Community Keynote at BlogHer. I don’t ever want my daughter to feel the way that I have felt most of my adult life about my body. Bravo Y. If you can’t watch her read it, you should read her Life Change Words.

Empowering Girls: Marketing Boundaries

Marketers are intentionally exploiting the vulnerabilities of our children. It’s unacceptable. It’s 100% within our rights and lies within our responsibility as citizens, as parents and as consumers to set some boundaries on marketing to kids. * Directly marketing unhealthy food is a direct cause of childhood obesity, according to the Federal Trade Commission. * […]