Daughters articles from May 1999

Daughters archives from May 1999

When you're both angry.(Let's Talk)
May 1, 1999... Mother: (looking in refrigerator) "Have you seen the cheese?" Daughter: "I don't know where it is. You blame me for everything." Mother: "I wasn't blaming you." Daughter: "Yes, you were. You always do!" Mother: (slams...

Reel-world girls.(Media)
May 1, 1999... Strong women reshape the world every day. From Sally Ride and Alice Walker to our own grandmothers and aunts, our culture is full of real-life heroines. Unfortunately, video store shelves don't reflect this sensibility often enough. Media...

Editor's desk.(Daughters magazine)
May 1, 1999... For several months now, our staff has been on a quest. We've been looking for ways to make Daughters more dynamic, more reflective of the wonder and intensity of parenting girls. That's why this issue has a different format, why it feels...

Meg Cox on celebrations and rites of passage.(Interview)
May 1, 1999... A girl's adolescence is filled with firsts--her first day of middle school and high school, her first period, her first job, her first crush and first kiss. In a few short years, we parents witness amazing changes in the girls we love. Meg Cox...

Finding her voice.(Parents' Forum)
May 1, 1999... "My daughter has undergone a puzzling change. She seems determined not to say anything that would upset her friends. I feel as if I don't know her when she acts like this. If one of her friends offends her, she blasts off to me about it, yet...

The breakfast debate.(Mind & Body)
May 1, 1999... She slept late and skipped breakfast. By 10 A.M. her stomach was rumbling and she had a headache. Drinking a diet soda helped her forget her hunger for a while, but by lunchtime she felt starved. Pizza and fries didn't fill her up. She finished...

Real girls, real math.(News to Use)
May 1, 1999... Researchers have found that girls perform better in math and science after reading biographies of women who excelled in those fields. To find videos and books about diverse, real-life achievers, call the National Women's History Project (707)...

One a day.(News to Use)
May 1, 1999... Have you complimented your daughter today? Not enough parents do. While researching a forthcoming book on teens, Washington Post writer Laura Stepp discovered a pervasive pattern of demeaning statements to and about adolescents. Stepp...

Latte girls.(News to Use)
May 1, 1999... Surveys reveal that girls are drinking coffee in rising numbers. Yet researchers warn that caffeine may reduce a girl's ability to absorb bone-building calcium, and drinking caffeine at the expense of eating can play a role in developing eating...

Talking to herself.(News to Use)
May 1, 1999... Researchers find that teenage girls are more likely than boys their age to blame themselves for failure. The daughter who says "I'm not smart enough" or "I'll never get it right" needs your help to put her shortcomings in perspective. In How...

Popular and at risk.(News to Use)
May 1, 1999... Adolescent girls drink alcohol as often as boys their age, but for different reasons. Studies reveal that girls tend to drink in order to fit in, while boys more often drink to feel high. Risks are different for girls, too. Because their bodies...