Daughters articles from November 2006

Daughters archives from November 2006

Bernice Sandler and Harriett Stonehill on sexual harassment.(Interview)
November 1, 2006... Girls are both victims and perpetrators of increasing sexual harassment in schools and elsewhere. We can help girls get and give respectful behavior, say Bernice Sandler and Harriett Stonehill, authors of Student-to-Student Sexual Harassment...

Helping her with early puberty.
November 1, 2006... Abby: Mom, I just noticed during my bath that I have a few hairs... down there. Mom: Wow! Well, remember how not long ago we talked about how this could happen soon, and that your breasts may start to grow, too. Abby: I know, but I...

Free and fabulous!(girls )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... As the holiday season approaches, there'll be plenty of pressure for girls--and everyone else--to start "working" on that holiday gift list. Gift-giving is great, but this season, consider starting a new tradition. Have the whole family make...

Opening her options.(education )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Who enrolls in the "career and technical education" classes at your daughter's school? Here's what happens nationally: Girls make up 87% of classes such as health services, childcare, and cosmetology, while boys dominate at around the same rate...

Watch "Thin" girls.(News to Use: reviews, research, and new ideas)
November 1, 2006... For one patient, it all started when she was declared fat at age seven and put on a diet. Now she's a mom of two who still struggles with anorexia and bulimia, and she's in Thin, a documentary set at a Florida eating disorders treatment center....

Girls got games!(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Girls often enjoy trivia games, so double their fun with inspirational questions like this: Who's wealthier--Oprah or Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling? Such female-centric brain teasers (it's Oprah, by the way) are part of Eve's Quest, a board...

Eating that heals.(News to Use: reviews, research, and new ideas)
November 1, 2006... One way to keep girls from viewing food as the "enemy" and risk eating disorders or chronic dieting is to have family meals together more often. That's one finding from The Surprising Power of Family Meals (Steerforth Press, 2005). Author...

Self-injury: why I cut myself.
November 1, 2006... Memory: I am six years old. I am playing at a friend's house. "Want to see something?" she asks. She lifts her skirt and points to a row of stitches on her knee. "! fell on some glass. They said it was going to scar," she boasts. "I didn't...

Read her online journal?(PARENTS' FORUM)
November 1, 2006... "Our 16-year-old daughter and her friends keep online journals and blogs at sites such as Live-Journal, MySpace, and Xanga. Many of the posts are not "friend-restricted" and accessible to the public. She doesn't know this, but I have read some...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... I'm a mom to twin girls who just began seventh grade. They did not receive any education in sixth grade about human reproduction; the teacher "ran out of time." I need to talk to them about sexuality, but don't know where or how to start. All...

Ask the expert.
November 1, 2006... I'm very concerned about how the girls at my daughter's school are using online forums such as MySpace, especially the personal information that can be viewed by strangers, crude language, and sexually suggestive photos and content. How should...

How to "read" her magazines.(MEDIA)
November 1, 2006... Even with cable and the Internet, many girls still turn to Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, and Teen Vogue for the latest on celebrities, fads, fashion, makeup, music, movies, and various "must-buy" products. Many of these magazines' articles--and...

Creating more connection time with her.(parenting )
November 1, 2006... When Drew McLellan's daughter Kelsey comes home from school, he gets an earful--in a great way. "We talk about everything from dating to sex to drugs," says McLellan. He knows that at middle school, "she's dealing with lots of peer pressure,...

My MySpace lesson.
November 1, 2006... When I first discovered my preteen daughters using MySpace, I had to ask them repeatedly to explain its purpose. "It's for leaving comments," they told me patiently, as if I were too feeble-minded to grasp the obvious. "You comment your...

Start a girls talking circle--with guys!
November 1, 2006... For the past 13 years, our organization, Teen Talking Circles, has been growing to meet the needs of young people who so often lack a forum to speak from their hearts. We started in 1993 with a Girl's Talking Circle in our community, and those...

Protecting her from the crossfire.(children of divorced parents )
November 1, 2006... Early one morning last June in the lobby of a Michigan hotel, I was scanning an online blog where some fathers were discussing how to get the upper hand in arguments and legal battles with their exes--the mothers of their children. I am certain...