Exposing True Beauty

By Renee Bogacz

Girls start at an early age being critical of themselves.  It seems natural for them.  They grow up seeing it happen all around them.  Think about how many times we women have done this to ourselves (and probably still do).  Every time we worry about a bad hair More »

How to Teach Your Kids Healthy Competition

By Todd G. Buchholz,

Author of Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race

Back in 1986, an American minister named Robert Fulghum wrote a best-selling self-help book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. The book was filled with entertaining essays about sharing, More »

Video Game Addiction — Why They’re So Compelling and Five Warning Signs for Assessing Risk

By Scott Rigby and Richard M. Ryan, Authors of Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound

Games are powerfully motivating of deep engagement that can last for hours on end, day after day. The first step to really understanding how to manage gaming in your More »

How to Talk to Little Girls

By Lisa Bloom, Author of Think: Straight Talk For Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World

I went to a dinner party at a friend’s home last weekend, and met her five-year-old daughter for the first time.

Little Maya was all curly brown hair, doe-like dark eyes, and adorable in More »

Raising Financially Fit Young People

By Evangelia Biddy

Not all children’s books need begin with “Once upon a time”, shares financial literacy expert Susan Beacham and New York Times bestselling author, Lynnette Khalfani Cox. The dynamic pair joined forces to create The Millionaire Kid$ Club™ children’s book series. The picture books teach children that money is More »

Surviving Your Daughter’s Break Up

By Renee Bogacz

Any parent with a teenaged daughter dreads the thought of her dating boys.  What is even more difficult to deal with than some boy dating your daughter, though, is some boy dumping her.  As parents, our first instinct when our child is hurt is to be More »

Why Girls Get Pep Rallies and Boys Get Pills

An Interview with Jack Kammer 

by Evangelia Biddy

 

Girls Rule! We get it! For some time there has been a powerful, ubiquitous, sustained, effort to help girls achieve success, in well, everything. Girls were behind in math and science; programs and initiatives emerged to pull them up. Girls were not participating in More »

Breaking the Curse of the Good Girl: 5 Ways Moms Can Help Girls Be Themselves

By Rachel Simmons

Author of The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

 

1. Get in touch with your inner Goof Girls of all ages say they’re most in touch with their true selves when they’re being silly, crazy, loud, or goofy. By late elementary school, More »

Protecting Our Daughters

By Renee Bogacz

It’s a constant battle at my house: my seventeen year old daughter thinks she’s fat.  She wears a single-digit clothing size and her height and weight put her in a normal BMI range.  But somehow those things bring her no comfort; she stills sees herself as fat.  Just More »

Moving Up! Meeting the Needs of Middle School Girls

By Evangelia Biddy

Growing up girl is definitely not what it was even a few years ago! Today’s girls receive so many confusing messages via popular music and media that focuses on sexualized images of girlhood, consumerism, violence and the unattainable body images presented in teen and young adult magazines. A More »