Daughters articles from May 2000

Daughters archives from May 2000

Nurturing her spirit.(Let's Talk)
May 1, 2000... (In the car, daughter puts a tape in the player.) Mother: "You listen to that a lot." Daughter: "Are you telling me to turn it off?" Mother: "No. Just thinking that you must really like it." Daughter: "Yeah." Mother: "What...

Missing home.(Keeping Time)
May 1, 2000... Your daughter is at overnight camp. You open her letter. "I cry every day because I miss you," she writes. "I want to come home." Fortunately, there are ways you can encourage her to cope. Gather information. Your daughter's homesickness...

Editor's desk.
May 1, 2000... I dropped my daughter at a movie last week. "Bye," she said and ran to meet her friend. I watched her go and thought about how little I knew about what she was thinking. I'm not alone. One of you wrote to us, "I listen in when I drive car pool....

Community connections.(News To Use)
May 1, 2000... If you're active in your community, chances are your daughter will be, too. But what if you're too busy to be her role model as a community volunteer? Then there's good news for you in a recent study published in the Journal of Research on...

Earlier discontent.(News To Use)
May 1, 2000... Does your daughter think she's fat? If she's typical, her perception of her size is somewhat elastic, varying with her mood, clothing, hunger level and the media images she sees. Yet some factors do remain constant. For example, girls become...

Career choices.(News To Use)
May 1, 2000... Don't assume your daughter gets all the career information she needs from her teachers or guidance counselors. When researchers at Central Connecticut State University tracked girls from 9th grade through their first year of college, they...

Dinner with dad.(News To Use)
May 1, 2000... A girl who has a good relationship with her father is less likely to experiment with smoking, drugs and drinking. A survey of 2,000 teens by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse found that when dads are emotionally engaged in...

Staying in the game.(News To Use)
May 1, 2000... As more and more of our daughters head onto basketball courts and soccer fields, they sometimes find themselves sidelined with torn ligaments and pulled muscles. Basketball accounts for the highest number of sports injuries among adolescent...

All 206 of them.(News To Use)
May 1, 2000... If your daughter is typical, she doesn't get the calcium her 206 growing bones need. Studies show that girls in adolescence too often skip breakfast mad choose soft drinks over milk. They also get too many calories from fast-food meals, which...

Too much mess?(Parents' Forum)
May 1, 2000... "My daughter's room is a mess, and it's a continual sources of conflict between us. Do I leave her door closed or make her clean up?" G.C., Nasville, Tennesse My daughter is 10 years old, and we used to argue about her room. My...

Carol Eagle on the brother factor.(Interview)
May 1, 2000... Are girls who grow up with brothers different from other girls? Psychologist Carol Eagle argues that they are. Head of Child and Adolescent Psychology at Montefiore Medical Center and author of All That She Can Be (Fireside, 1994), Eagle...

Stock in her future.(Money)
May 1, 2000... When you and I were young, we may not have given much thought to investments, but our daughters are growing up in different times. They're expected to be market-savvy, and 90% of them will work to support themselves for some portion of their...

Teaching her to cook.(Mind And Body)
May 1, 2000... Renee is a busy 16-year-old. She takes piano, volunteers, spends time with friends, maintains an A average--and skips too many meals. Over the past year she has lost weight, and she complains of being tired. Her dad has brought her to my office...

Mirror images.(Parent Journey)
May 1, 2000... There is an image of my daughter's face that will he etched forever in my mind. It was triggered by a casual remark from a classmate who had come to dinner. "Laura, you look just like your mother," she said. Out of the corner of my eye, I...

Too much protection?(Her Dad)
May 1, 2000... Ask a man what his job is as a father, and one of the first words out of his mouth is "protection." Between our genetic coding and our cultural training, protecting our children--particularly our daughters--is a strong and nearly automatic...