Daughters articles from July 1999

Daughters archives from July 1999

Is she trying to be perfect?(Let's Talk)
July 1, 1999... (evening, mother in kitchen, daughter enters) Daughter: "That popcorn smells good." Mother: "It'll be ready soon." Daughter: "I swam slowly today. My time was off by a couple of tenths." Mother: "That's still pretty fast." ...

Home from camp.(Keeping Time)
July 1, 1999... Camp is over. She comes home with a duffel full of dirty clothes--and an attitude. You ask what she enjoyed, and she snaps, "Stay out of my life." Don't panic. You've stumbled into the reentry zone. When camp ends, your daughter may feel a...

Editor's desk.
July 1, 1999... When I was an adolescent, I didn't like being called "girl." There were too many limits on what girls could do back then, too many games we weren't encouraged to play Years later, my girlhood long behind me, I became the mother of two...

Home work.(News To Use)
July 1, 1999... A recent survey by Zillions magazine reveals that boys and girls do the same number of chores, but girls are more often responsible for housework. Because indoor chores are more likely to be done on a dally basis, girls end up putting in more...

Secret sadness.(News To Use)
July 1, 1999... In a recent study of adolescent depression, 13 emerges as a watershed year. Until that age, girls report slightly fewer depressed feelings than boys. Between 12 and 14, however, girls become more depression prone. Girls don't always tell...

What she doesn't know ...(News To Use)
July 1, 1999... Most teenage girls have some working knowledge of pregnancy prevention and AIDS--but mention chlamydia or gonorrhea and they go blank. That's the conclusion of a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Children Now. The 15- to...

Game grrrls.(News To Use)
July 1, 1999... Do girls' computer games such as Rockett's New School or Barbie Fashion Designer help your daughter feel comfortable at the keyboard, or do they limit her horizons? Are gender-neutral games more likely to teach her computing skills? These are...

Girl Pages.(News To Use)(Consult Girl Pages: A Handbook of the Best Resources for Strong, Confident, Creative Girls)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 1999... Does your daughter want to excavate Anasazi pottery this summer? Would she like to attend lacrosse camp or enhance her rock-climbing skills? Consult Girl Pages: A Handbook of the Best Resources for Strong, Confident, Creative Girls by Charlotte...

Paradox at play.(News To Use)
July 1, 1999... At 10, our daughters climb frees, play ball and ride their bikes. But during adolescence, the typical girl slows down. The percentage of teenage girls who exercise regularly has been on the decline for two decades. By the lime our daughters...

Private matters.(News To Use)
July 1, 1999... More than half of us can't resist listening in on our daughters' phone conversations or reading their journals. And our daughters are just as curious about us. A survey of 20,000 moms and daughters, readers of Ladies' Home Journal and...

When she is lonely.(Parents' Forum)
July 1, 1999... "My 13-year-old daughter is lonely. Her best friend moved away. She calls other girls, but they all seem to be linked up with best friends already. They do things together and don't include her. What can I do?" P.T., Nashville, Tennessee...

James A. Levine on dads and daughters.(Interview)(Interview)
July 1, 1999... Does your daughter retreat behind a "No Dads Allowed" sign? James A. Levine understands. The author of Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family (Addison-Wesley, 1997) and director of The Fatherhood Project at the Families...

TV--girls and magic power.(Media)
July 1, 1999... Surf the channels any night. Buffy is blond, a cheerleader, and defends the world from vampires. Cassie, Rachel and Alex Mack morph (change their shape) at will. Sabrina's whole family is magic, including the cat. Why are so many girls on...

Money of her own.(Money)
July 1, 1999... The self-sufficient girl can handle money. She knows that how she earns and spends her money matters. She learns all this from you. By the time a self-sufficient girl leaves home, you have taught her to earn money, budget, save and invest. The...

Playing back the positive.(Parent Journey)
July 1, 1999... Imagine that as you're reading this page you hear a voice nearby saying "Do this now!" You drop everything and try to respond. Sometimes our minds work like tape machines. We play the same messages again and again for ourselves--even when...

Girls and boys: crossing the cultural divide.(Girl Culture)
July 1, 1999... A 12-year-old girl stands talking to another, her hand propped on her hip. Two boys approach. As they pass, one of the boys pushes the girl's elbow roughly. She glares at him. "Hey, watch it!" He makes a face. "You watch it." What's going...