Entries by Tracee

Keira Knightly Stands Up For Her Girls & Yours

Keira Knightly is taking a stand against digitally enhancing her breasts for her upcoming movie, “The Dutchess.” When she stands up and declares herself “good enough” as she is, she stands up and declares our daughters “good enough” as they are. Every actress who resists media pressure to conform to the beauty ideal does all […]

Empowering Girls: Tanning

Mom can I tan? Wait, what? What do you mean by tan? Tan. Lay out in the sun to make my skin darker. You’re 6! So? Stephanie and her sisters do it. (Damn, older cheerleader sisters,) I think to myself. Look. At. My. Face. Right. Now. Do you see those brown spots on my forehead […]

Empowering Girls: Costuming

Mom, can we wear our matching Chinese outfits to the Chinese Restaurant? Yes. On a very basic and fundamental level childhood should be F-U-N.

Empowering Girls: Ho'oponopono for Girl Fights

Vacation Rerun by Tracee Sioux The only resolution (that I’ve come up with) for girl-fighting is to teach them Ho’oponopono, the theory that anything can be resolved by practicing I’m sorry, I forgive you, I love you. Girls are . . . . Well, if you’ve got one – then you know how they are […]

Empowering Girls: Princess Bubble Review

Princess Bubble by Susan Johnston & Kimberly Webb is the antidote to the Disney Princess Culture. It’s got all the “pretty” little girls want with the crowns and flouncy dresses and the gobs of bubble gum pink and castles and lavish parties. It’s full of the exaggerated femininity little girls crave, but balanced with more […]

Empowering Girls: Criticize Daughters' DNA

A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem. Naomi Wolf The reverse is also true. Divorce expert M. Gary Neuman says the worst thing any parent can do to their child is to criticize their other parent. Because children hear this as criticism of self. You criticize a child’s DNA […]

Cinderella Should Have Saved Herself

By Tracee Sioux Our daughters are inundated with Cinderella and her friends. Young girls love Cinderella and want to be her. For several years I allowed the Cinderella obsession to run rampant. I allowed the dress up clothes, books, movies, birthday party themes, posters, sticker and coloring books, flash cards, and on and on. There […]

Guest Post: Lucy

Lucy, today’s guest blogger, is a mother of three who lives in the UK. Lucy blogs at Free From , about gluten free food because her oldest child is a ceoliac.She observes the behaviour of the tribes of youth in her free time. But what was she doing at McD’s? That’s not very gluten free. […]

Guest Post: Candeelady

Candeelady has a line of make your own doll kits on her Etsy Store and also does craft parties for girls. This along with her Go Go Glue Gun blog.

Guest Post: Jeanne

Please welcome Jeanne from Jeanne’s Endo Blog as today’s guest blogger. Jeanne is the mother of one daughter and lives on the East Coast. She is also a women’s health advocate, running a support group and a blog about endometriosis. Visit Blog Fabulous today to find out how endometriosis has affected Jeanne’s own body image. […]

Empowering Girls: Twilight, Female Crack Cocaine

My much adored cousin told me I just HAD to read Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1), by Stephenie Meyer, which is flying off the shelves as women indulge our addiction to the love story. In the meantime, I’ve been contemplating a few things like why girls and women can be so self-defeating. Why does […]