Daughters articles from March 2008

Daughters archives from March 2008

John Badalament on modeling healthy relationships.(IN THE KNOW)
March 1, 2008... What kind of future does your daughter see at home? We want our daughters to believe they will be able to "have it all" as they grow up, finding fulfilling work, contributing to the world, and above all, enjoying healthy relationships. Yet in...

Are friends more important to her than family?(LET'S TALK)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We want our daughters to enjoy the wonderful bonds of close friendships, and it's normal for these friendships to take on a more dominant role as gifts grow older. But the peer pull often makes striking a...

Home-grown politicking.(HER WORLD)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Who's going to be our new president? Your girl may be especially intrigued with this election year's possibility of our nation's first-ever female head of state. Now's an excellent time to pique her political curiosity by showing her that...

Editor's desk.(Editorial)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... We'd like to give you something today: our most popular Daughters Special Collection with the best advice on girls' friendship issues from our 10 years of publishing. We're sharing this resource because we're aiming to bring you more resources...

GirlCaught! you've been "GirlCaught!".(News to Use: reviews, research, and new ideas)
March 1, 2008... Is your daughter steamed about all the offensive images of gifts and women she sees in advertising and the media? "GirlCaught" stickers are great tools for fighting back. Go to www.tbio.org to print them out; your girl can then slap one on any...

Have some pi!(News to Use: reviews, research, and new ideas)(Pi Day)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Another day to set aside for some fun: March 14. It's Pi Day--a fitting day to celebrate the math constant 3.14--and a good day to use some engaging activities to make math come alive for girls. Buy your daughter her favorite pizza, and let her...

Family meals Rx.(News to Use: reviews, research, and new ideas)
March 1, 2008... Teen girls who frequently eat meals with their families are less likely to use diet pills, vomiting, laxatives, and other extreme weight-control tactics five years later, reports health researcher Dr. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer in the January,...

Fun: make art, make history!(News to Use: reviews, research, and new ideas)(Women's Art: Women's Visions)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Lots of girls love making art, so this March is an ideal time to inspire her further. The 2008 theme of National Women's History Month is Women's Art: Women's Visions. Browse through the honorees listed at the National Women's History Project...

Step-by-step sex ed.(SEXUALITY)
March 1, 2008... On the way to school, your 12-year-old daughter tunes into her favorite pop station where loud, sexually charged lyrics rattle you out of your morning daze. As she starts to sing along, you shoot her a disapproving glare, quickly change the...

Don't count on school sex ed.(SEXUALITY)
March 1, 2008... As a mother of a ten-year-old son, I understand that talking to children about sex and sexuality is not easy. Many parents comfort themselves by trusting that schools will provide adequate sexual education. But as a professor researching...

Rewriting rap.(SUCCESS STORIES: Celebrate! Great girl moments)(Concert review)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the top issues that made them mad? The girls in Atlanta's FIREGRL club agreed: They were sick of street harassment, and they weren't happy about the degrading ways girls and women were portrayed in the media....

Book of love.(SUCCESS STORIES: Celebrate! Great girl moments)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... I wanted to celebrate the onset of my daughter's menses, so when my daughter turned 11, I asked a number of women Mends who are special to my daughter and me to write her a letter about being a woman. They gave her all kinds of advice--about...

Fun and games for IT futures.(SUCCESS STORIES: Celebrate! Great girl moments)(information technology)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... How to get girls interested in info tech? Teach them how to make the games they want to play, and pair the games with real-life information technology experience that increases their confidence to pursue further design and programming...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... Thank you for publishing Daughters. You might be interested to know that I frequently "gift" a subscription to dads whom I see in therapy. The format is just right: short, nicely headlined, excellent information. Daughters becomes an unbiased,...

Ask the expert.
March 1, 2008... My eighth-grade daughter recently told me about a panic attack she had in class, saying that she felt anxious about her performance there and "just everything." I'm scared she'll have another one. Should I get her professional help? And how I...

Discovering her real beauty.(BODY TALK)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] She thinks her feet are too big, her nose is too small, and her eyes too close together. Her thighs are "huge," and she despairs of ever being pretty and skinny "enough." You've probably met a girl who is...

Is her voice strong?(LIFE SKILLS)
March 1, 2008... What happens when a girl uses a high, uncertain voice? People don't fully listen to her or take her seriously. During pre-teen and teen years, when a girl may already be going through a serf-esteem slump, the feeling that others aren't really...

Get her talking "side by side".(MOTHERING JOURNEY)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Mom, please stop asking me how my day went when I get home from school." When my youngest daughter made this request one recent afternoon, I was nonplussed. I'd greeted my three girls with that question for years,...

Reaching out to her.(CONSIDER THIS)
March 1, 2008... The last time I saw my niece was when she and her mother visited me, and I was stunned. Her long hair now sported two pink stripes and her beautiful eyes were lined with black eyeliner. At 13, Emi was officially a teenager with made-to-shock...

Talking with her about sexuality.(DAD'S DESK)
March 1, 2008... A girl's emerging sexuality can prove difficult for many dads and stepdads. We're likely to worry--or dare we admit it, obsess--about her losing her virginity or being taken advantage of in a sexual way. Meanwhile, most people (including most...