Daughters articles from March 2003

Daughters archives from March 2003

Charlene Giannetti on girls and adoption.(Interview)(Interview)
March 1, 2003... Adolescent parenting expert Charlene Giannetti has written a collection of must-read books with collaborator Margaret Sagarese, including the Roller Coaster Years and Cliques: 8 Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle (both Broadway/...

Is she too young to date?(Let's Talk)
March 1, 2003... Jill: "Mom, would you drive me to the movies on Friday?" Mom: "Sure, honey. What friends are you meeting there?" Jill: "His name is Dan." Mom: "Dan? Dan who? Hmmm. Is this a date? You're only 14 years old." Jill: "I don't know...

Of sisters and daughters.(Editor's Desk)
March 1, 2003... If you'd asked me 10 years ago what kind of daughter I might one day have, I'd have described a red-headed girl with pale skin and blue eyes. Instead, I am the mother of two beautiful raven-haired, golden-skinned, almond-eyed girls born in...

Girls just want coverage!(News to use: reviews, research, and new ideas)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Teen girls are starting to rebel against the show-all styles of Britney-wear, according to recent articles in the press. A group of Mesa, Arizona, teens recently presented Dillard's department store with a 1,500-signature petition, reports The...

Gay slurs common.(News to use: reviews, research, and new ideas)
March 1, 2003... Although most high school students dislike it, gay slurs have become the insult of choice among school bullies, the National Mental Health Association reports. Words such as fag and dyke are common bully tools, as is the expression, "That's so...

Real girls have curves.(News to use: reviews, research, and new ideas)(Real Women Have Curves)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Here's a don't-miss film for you and your favorite girl: Director Patricia Cardoso's Real Women Have Curves, an independent feature film released last fall by Newmarket Films. Starting America Ferrera as recent high school graduate Ana, the...

Fighting model culture.(News to use: reviews, research, and new ideas)
March 1, 2003... If your daughter is taken with the glamour of models and modeling, make sure she checks out a new website called www.cultureofmodeling.com. The site (along with a forthcoming companion book for girls), is produced by Audrey Brashich, herself a...

Vegetarian teens healthy.(News to use: reviews, research, and new ideas)
March 1, 2003... Parents often worry when their daughters swear off meat. Now a new study from the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine says they don't have to. In the study, University of Minnesota epidemiologist Cheryl Perry found that vegetarian...

Prevent dating abuse.(News to use: reviews, research, and new ideas)
March 1, 2003... Saving Beauty from the Beast: How to Protect Your Daughter From an Unhealthy Relationship is the title of an important new book by Vicki Crompton and Ellen Zelda Kessner (Little, Brown, 2003), which thoroughly describes abusive and controlling...

No room of one's own?(Family)
March 1, 2003... Ruth and Paul Erickson may live with their children in a mid-century split-level and prize their Minneapolis suburb for its excellent schools. But they are hot your typical American family. For starters, their four danghters--Sophie, 17, Ellie,...

Curing the crabbies.(Mind And Body)
March 1, 2003... Grrr. She's home from school, and once again ifs the familiar replies. There's the exasperated sigh; then the "Nothing's new! Why do you always have to ask?" followed by the slammed bedroom door. Too often, parents strike back with...

Troubled friends.(Working It Out)
March 1, 2003... Sometimes a sympathetic girl can find herself the sounding board of a truly troubled friend. And that situation, in turn, is often more than she can handle alone. When Christel, 14, started fielding the calls of a suicidal friend, she turned to...

What should you do about junior high dating?(Parents' Forum)
March 1, 2003... "My 13-year-old daughter has been going to movies unsupervised with friends for a year now. Sometimes these groups of friends include boys. Lately she has been asking to go with another girl and two boys, on a kind of date. Is she too young to...

Toward a family-work balance for dads.(Dad's Desk)
March 1, 2003... I was recently on a TV talk show to speak about fathering issues, when the self-described Gen-X host called on a teen girl and her dad in the audience. The host asked the girl, "What's your biggest issue with your dad right now?" "When I...

Throwing a menstrual celebration for girls.(Mind/Body)
March 1, 2003... I threw a Period Party for a bunch of middle school girls I know, and it was a roaring success. For an hour and a hall they ate red jelly beans, drank raspberry leaf tea, and gave their red balloons panty-liner mustaches. I read them stories...

My daughter, my muse.(Mothering Journey)
March 1, 2003... Every writer has her muse. Mine just happens to wear braces and rive down the hall. She answers to Gaby, and some say she's my daughter. But I know better. She's a muse in middle-schooler's clothing. I first noticed this a few months ago...

Liana's hands.(Fathering Journey)
March 1, 2003... It was Father's Day and my wife Giana had made us brunch. On the table were three presents, each with a card. Everyone was happy, laughing, and talking, enjoying the blintz and berries brunch. Luke, our 17-year-old, began to talk about some...

The value of solitude.(Consider This)
March 1, 2003... "Are you a lonely only?" people used to ask me when they learned I was an only child. The question always baffled me. True, I had no siblings; that was indisputable. But it never occurred to me that that made me lonely, both because I always...

When you can't fix it.(Her Dad)
March 1, 2003... Part of being a father in our culture, supposedly, is being the one who can stop all the hurts and fix all the problems. Ifs even easy to fool ourselves into believing this superhero fantasy for a while, since young children's issues are so...