Entries by Tracee

Frog Prince & Daddy

Kiss it. It might turn into a prince. You kiss it! I already got my Prince. This is what Daddy looked like when I found him.

SCHIPS Veto Override

by Tracee Sioux Let me tell you about two families I personally know who benefit from the State Children’s Health Insurance Program or SCHIPS, the continuation and expanse of which Pres. George W. Bush vetoed. Family one has a stay-at-home mom and a restaurant manager dad. He works 6 days a week, Tuesdays are his […]

Happy Birthday, Ainsley!

My daughter turned 6 yesterday. Six years I’ve been a mother and six years she’s been learning and developing on this earth. Her birthdays make me a little sad. They’re full of joy, but that’s six years we don’t get to do over again. Six years that have passed and we can’t have them back. […]

Isabella Toad

by Tracee Sioux If a toad is a symbol of something it must be change, transformation, evolution and growth. A tadpole seems like an itty-bitty fish-like thing and slowly evolves into a hopping leggy animal. If Darwin’s Theory of Evolution seems insane, UnChristian and unlikely to you, I recommend watching a toad evolve. Last week, […]

Political Survey

This website aims to be bi-partisan. In the sense that I’m interested in what the most empowering thing for girls is. I’m a Democrat, but the focus of the site is girl-empowering so I give myself permission to take conservative stances on issues that effect girls. Misogynistic and violent/sexual television like glamorizing rape on Gossip […]

Terrorism Commercial

by Tracee Sioux Flash from scared innocent kids asking these questions: Mom, Dad, how long should I wait for you? What if something happens, will you come get me? What if I’m at soccer practice, will you come get me? Mom, If you’re not home, should we go to the neighbor’s house? Calm female Narrator: […]

Onslaught

What is there to say? This is what we do to girls in this country and it has devastating effects on them, on us. They are born beautiful and then . . . The onslaught of terrible images of their worth related to a beauty ideal, weight management, and self-loathing. In short, we make them […]

Dance Revolution

We’re thinking about Ainsley’s 6th birthday which looms in the near future. She said she wants a DVD ballet class but there is no way she’s going to like doing ballet. I took ballet once as a kid and it’s extremely “disciplined.” I think my daughter will find it anal retentive and boring – but, […]

What Would Jesus Do?

Dear Christian Family Values Voters, What would Jesus do? It’s a test many Christians, including myself, apply to problems to determine a course of action. I’m writing today concerning health care in America, because I can’t understand your position. I’ve gone round and round in my head and I can’t see how the Republican position […]

Gossip Girl & R-A-P-E

by Tracee Sioux I tuned into Gossip Girl to see what it was about. The new definition of glamorous includes editing of a rape scene and an act of consensual (yet inappropriate drunken sex) with the intent to blur the distinction. The viewer was asked to be not only confused, but aroused, by the violent […]

Ainsley, Perfect You

Please steal this idea for your daughter’s Christmas or birthday. I felt with all the negative media images my daughter had to face I wanted to arm her with a really, really good one. I wrote her a book, about herself, for her 5th birthday titled Ainsley, Perfect You. I used MyPublisher.com because they have […]

Dear Mrs. Franklin,

Dear Mrs. Franklin, I would love to be the Room Mother for Ainsley’s class as I know you could use all the support you can get. Unfortunately, I’ve already committed to coaching the soccer team, volunteering at the youth outreach, mentoring a teenager, participating in church activities and working from home. I’ve simply run out […]