Daughters articles from May 2003

Daughters archives from May 2003

Vicki Crompton on abusive relationships.(Interview)
May 1, 2003... Vicki Crompton became an expert on abusive dating relationships in the worst possible way: In 1986 her 15-year-old daughter Jenny was murdered by her boyfriend, who was enraged that she'd broken up with him. Although Crompton and her husband...

Moms: helping your daughter cope with your Divorce.(Let's Talk)
May 1, 2003... Finally, some great news for divorced mothers of girls: Most girls survive divorce perfectly well, and some actually become exceptionally confident and competent after their parents split up. This observation, gleaned from the findings of...

Editor's desk.(Editorial)
May 1, 2003... No one would ever call me insecure or shy; in fact the words loud and bossy have been used to describe me more than once. And yet 25 years ago, while still in college, I entered a relationship that I can now only describe as abusive. It...

Drinking=brain damage.(News to use: reviews, research, and news ideas)
May 1, 2003... Because the human brain doesn't reach full maturity until age 20, underage drinking can cause irreversible damage to developing brains, the American Medical Association says. In a study released last winter, researcher Sandra Brown, chief of...

Don't be a monitor mom.(News to use: reviews, research, and news ideas)
May 1, 2003... In another reversal of conventional wisdom, some experts are now telling parents to monitor their teens less and listen to them more. After decades of heating parenting experts stress how important it is to keep constant track of your...

Estrogen for tall girls?(News to use: reviews, research, and news ideas)
May 1, 2003... Despite the well-documented dangers, some U.S. physicians are still giving girls high doses of estrogen to control their growth. Although most physicians agree that hormone treatment is appropriate in cases of gigantism (in which an abnormal...

Happy as they are.(News to use: reviews, research, and news ideas)
May 1, 2003... Teenage girls seem more content about weighing more these days, reports fashion writer Ginia Bellafante, of the New York Times. Her own observations of girls in Manhattan, heavier than average but happy to wear revealing clothing like their...

Helping her avoid math anxiety.(Education)
May 1, 2003... For 15-year-old Marisa Morales, math doubts began in third grade. "She was having problems with multiplication tables, and she started saying, 'I'm not good at math," recalls morn Irene. So when an all-girls after-school math and science group...

Role-playing for self-defense.(Mind And Body)
May 1, 2003... Self-defense can be a heavy, uncomfortable word that settles right next to our worst nightmares. Of course we want our daughter to be able to ward off a potential attacker. We know that it would be good for her to take a self-defense course....

Sharing family air time.(Working It Out)
May 1, 2003... What's a girl to do when she's the middle of three sisters? It's hard to get away or get your parents' attention, especially when your older sister is disabled and your younger sister is lively. Here's how Alison, 9, and her mom, Ginna, are...

When girls drop out of extracurricular activities.(Parents' Forum)
May 1, 2003... "I have a 14-year-old daughter who is interested only in boys, shopping, makeup, hair styles, and who is dating whom. She no longer participates in school, church, or other extracurricular activities, and is bored with any ideas I suggest. She...

Save Title IX: open letter to a politician.(Dad's Desk)
May 1, 2003... Dads and Daughters recently sent this letter to fathers with girls in the U.S. House and Senate. As a fellow father of daughters, I write to urge your support for keeping Title IX strong, for the sake of daughters and fathers across the...

Is your daughter sleep deprived?(Mind And Body)
May 1, 2003... When my daughter was in elementary school, my maternal radar could easily recognize a certain quality in her usually cheerful face that signaled trouble. A puffiness under the eyes, a slackness in the jaw, combined with a whiny, defeated tone...

Striking Out on her own.(Mothering Journey)
May 1, 2003... When our daughter Maggie was in fifth grade, she was excluded from the central clique of her classroom. She agonized over whether she should assume the attitudes of the girls who had sacrificed their independence to fit in and be accepted, or...

Learning from Claire.(Fathering Journey)
May 1, 2003... I try to teach my 8-year-old daughter what I can: how to add multi-digit numbers by "carrying," how to play the left-hand part of a new piano piece, how to correctly spell difficult words. In return, Claire is teaching me about emotional...

Sixth grade sergeant: memories of an unlikely mentor.(Consider This)
May 1, 2003... As a woman who has been known to speak her mind both in print and polite company, I've often been asked about the people who mentored me while I was growing up. The unspoken assumption is that my role models must have been women. Strong women....

Talking about sex.(Her Dad)
May 1, 2003... One of a parent's most difficult tasks is talking to a daughter about sex. You just know you're going to get the rolling eyes, squeals of protest, and "Don't you realize I know all this?" looks. Yet the "sex talk," for all its awkwardness,...