Daughters articles from November 2000

Daughters archives from November 2000

Laura Sessions Stepp on divorce.(Interview)
November 1, 2000... Laura Sessions Stepp's parents divorced when she was a child. She lived with her father, whom she remembers as being very strict. By contrast, her mother was lenient. "I went between those two parenting styles for years," Stepp says. Now a...

Does she want to change the world?(Let's Talk)
November 1, 2000... (In the car, a dad talks with his 11-year-old daughter.) Dad: "You seem down. Didn't you enjoy the park?" Daughter: "Yeah, it was fun." Dad: "Then why the long face?" Daughter: "Did you see that family sitting at the other...

Coed sleepovers.(Her World)
November 1, 2000... These days, when your daughter requests a sleepover, she may mean a coed one--that's right, boys included. Increasingly, teens are spending the night together, either staying awake or sacking out in sleeping bags on the floor. What if your...

Editor's desk.
November 1, 2000... Daughters is written for parents, but we get a surprising number of letters from girls. And I'm glad we do. Sometimes their notes thank us for writing about girls "just like me." Others argue that being adults, we can't know what it's like to...

Menarche and depression.(News to use: reviews, research and new ideas)
November 1, 2000... Soon after her first period arrives, your daughter's odds of developing depression nearly double. That's the consensus of a new cluster of studies in the United States, New Zealand, Canada and Puerto Rico. Hormonal upheaval may be partially...

Strong mothers, strong girls.(News to use: reviews, research and new ideas)
November 1, 2000... Studies have found remarkable emotional resiliency among African-American girls. In 1994, the American Association of University Women reported that 58% of African-American girls said they were happy with themselves, compared with 30% of girls...

Herbal supplements.(News to use: reviews, research and new ideas)
November 1, 2000... According to the Washington Post, kids are buying herbal dietary supplements in record numbers. Unregulated by the FDA, supplements such as St. John's wort, ginseng and echinacea appear benign because they're sold over the counter like vitamins...

Horses on her horizon?(News to use: reviews, research and new ideas)
November 1, 2000... Last year the National Collegiate Athletic Association granted "emerging sport" status to equestrian teams, a move that may result in opportunities for girls across the country. Because as many as 80% of all U.S. schools still are not in...

Challenge her ideas.(News to Use reviews, research and new ideas)
November 1, 2000... What would happen if your family had a two-week vacation, unlimited funds--and only 20 minutes to plan the trip? That was the challenge researchers made to families in a study of adolescent identity at the University of Texas. As the...

What is she doing online?(Parents' Forum)
November 1, 2000... "I was deleting old files on the family computer when I came across sexually explicit e-mail my 12-year-old had received from a friend. How should I deal with this?" L. T., Birmingham, Alabama We caught our 12-year-old daughter talking...

Step by step.(Working It Out)
November 1, 2000... Does your daughter long to go places on her own? Here's how one family is working it out. Connie: "For the past two years, Sarah and I have been grappling with lengthening the symbolic umbilical cord between us. We live just outside New...

The pressure of family feasts.(Mind and Body)
November 1, 2000... Eleven-year-old Katie is a few pounds overweight, but she eats reasonably most of the time. She comes from a big family--lots of relatives who love to get together and celebrate birthdays, graduations, new jobs and new babies. This is a problem...

Is she ready for PG-13?(Media)
November 1, 2000... As a preschooler your daughter watched the Disney classics, all of them rated G. Then around age 8 or 9, she started watching PG movies. Perhaps some of them contained unwelcome material but nothing terrifically shocking. Now at 11, she tells...

When dreams change.(Parent Journey)
November 1, 2000... One day my daughter, Gabby, called me at work. "We need to talk," she said. She came as I was closing up my shop. Her boyfriend, Michael, was with her; and when I saw them together, somehow I knew. I hoped beyond hope that it was something...

Being a dad in a changing world.(Her Dad)
November 1, 2000... A friend of mine named Alex told me an interesting story. It seems that one day, he came home from work only to hear his wife say, "She went to the mall again without permission. I'm too angry to deal with her right now. You'll have to do it."...