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Since Title IX has enforced rules about spending for girls sports in the public school system it has led to a 400 percent increase in the rate of female participation in college sports and a more than 800 percent increase in participation at the high school level. Sports are great for girls. They encourage healthy […]
Miss America, the pageant of all pageant’s. The, the, the . . . most obsolete thing in the world. TLC got a hold of the Miss America pageant and aims to modernize it on a reality show called Miss America Reality Check. Which sounded like a potentially promising thing. For a minute. There was this […]
There is a column worth reading on the New York Times Opinion Page about the film Juno. Juno, is the name of a teenager who gets pregnant and gives the baby up for adoption. Columnist, Caitlin Flanagan, has a valid point about the message of the film and how it effects girls. (I, personally, haven’t […]
by Traces Sioux Every parent of a daughter should see Little Miss Sunshine. It’s the story of a normal girl, Olive, from a dysfunctional family scrambling to get their hands on the American Dream. Olive’s aunt entered her into a beauty pageant and she placed as a runner-up. The winner couldn’t make it to the […]
Get your shoes on Zack, come to Home Depot with me, he said. We were going to watch Jon and Kate plus Ei8ht, I said. He’d rather go to the hardware store. Zack loves the babies. It’s his favorite show. What do you want to do Zack? Pick the hardware store. Don’t be a girl! […]
One of the things most important things I want to teach my daughter is how to make her life happen, as opposed to allowing life happen to her. I want to give her power. Power to do or be anything she chooses. I don’t want her to be limited by the past. I don’t want […]
I hope you shared this moment, when the first woman ever won a United States Presidential Primary, with your daughters last night. Regardless of your political leanings, I sincerely hope that the significance of Hillary Clinton’s participation in the democratic process is not going unnoticed. I also hope you watch what you say about her […]
by Tracee Sioux Did you catch the premier episode of Lifetime’s How to Look Good Naked? I think there is enough evidence that body image is, at least partly, emotionally-inherited. When mothers feel bad about their bodies, daughters are more likely to feel bad about their bodies. (There are always exceptions, of course.) Nothing is […]
Did you know that it is now common for girls to start their menstrual cycles when they are nine years old? Pubic hair and breasts begin showing up one to two years prior to menstruation, which put many girls in precocious puberty or early puberty at around age seven. I find this shocking. My first […]
I often have to bite my tongue to prevent myself from exclaiming, Oh, Zack you’re such a boy! It’s almost a reflex anytime he plays with machines, pushes around a car, stacks some blocks, plays with a ball or tries to fight. It’s a reflex most people in our family do not resist. Stereotypes are […]
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by Tracee Sioux I always thought I’d have four children growing up. But, then I had one and realized how incredibly hard it was and changed my ideal to two. When I had Ainsley I thought I’d save my sir name Sioux for the second girl. For some reason I can’t recall now I thought […]
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