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by Tracee Sioux In Texas, almost 188,000 incidents of domestic violence occurred during 2005, and more than 330,000 rapes occur every year, according to Gov. Rick Perry’s office. But it always starts with the girls and boys. Intimate violence is not a problem that develops when healthy adults get together. In 2007 Texas finally decided […]
This is the company photo for WordPress.com. See that one woman among all the men? This is 2007 and we talk a lot about all the opportunities available to women, but this is a current photo not a flashback to the 1970s. What do we say to our daughters about that one girl? Do we […]
We took our kids and my mentee to see Shrek the Third (Widescreen Edition). I was thrilled to expose the girls to the scene where the Disney Princesses, Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, deliberately nod off to sleep to “wait to be rescued” when the villains of children’s literature lock them up. Fiona and […]
by Tracee Sioux The beautiful America Ferrera won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series last night for her role as Betty Suarez in Ugly Betty. Hurray! While my husband believes the themes in Ugly Betty are too adult for our five-year-old daughter, and they are, I love Ugly Betty’s message about […]
by Tracee Sioux My daughter was reciting all the things about “A” she had learned her first week in Kindergarten. A is for alligator, apple tree, astronaut, Ainsley. Then she handed the phone back to me. Well, when she was reciting all the things that start with A, I refrained from listing Asshole. Well, thanks […]
by Tracee Sioux The American Psychological Association has published a Report of the APA Task force on the Sexualization of Girls. This 74-page report should be required reading for every mother, mentor, and educator. It contains a multitude of studies and evidence that girls are being negatively effected by being inundated with images and innuendos […]
by Tracee Sioux The absurdity of abstinence-only “education” and I do use the term education loosely, confounds me. It’s so blatantly anti-girl. The logic is so extremely flawed. The practice is entirely ineffective in preventing big social problems like teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. From the girl’s perspective, and I do […]
by Tracee Sioux I saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center in person, I snapped a photo at that very moment. The anniversary of 9/11 is something everyone on television will be talking about today. They will all be running the most graphic and terrible footage they can find. I won’t say they […]
by Tracee Sioux The first week of Kindergarten didn’t go as smoothly as I had planned. Perhaps that’s the problem with having a plan, you get too attached to the outcome and then become disappointed. Practical problems included the bus taking 2 whole hours to bring my kid home. Two hours is a heck of […]
by Tracee Sioux We, my husband and I, are participating in a federally-funded marriage education course designed to keep the family together. Vow, Healthy Marriage Education Initiative is being funded by the Administration for Children and Families and the US Department of Health and Human Services. Marriage. Where to start. Obviously, marriage and the success […]
I’m a big fan of Dove’s advertising campaigns. When I saw the real women in their white bra and panties on Oprah, the models for Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty, I got tears in my eyes. Finally, advertising that says real women are beautiful, I thought. I even wrote them a letter thanking them for […]
by Tracee Sioux I took my kids out for Chinese food last week as a special end-of-summer treat. I had given my 18-month-old Zack a chop-stick to play with. He was picking up kernels of rice with it and eating them. I was very proud. The waitress came up and took the chop stick away […]
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