It's fascinating to watch my girls develop into young women -- to see their sexuality, intellect and self-awareness grow. It's also scary to recognize that our influence in their life is waning.
Soraya Chemaly | Posted 02.29.2012
Forget girls, parents are the people who need a Princess Recovery Program.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 11.18.2011
Where did we become convinced that the faux is any more acceptable than the real? And why do we so readily buy into the idea that the images everyone else is presenting are any more real than our own?
Lori Day | Posted 10.15.2011
This article has been co-written with Michele Sinisgalli-Yulo of Princess Free Zone. It's hard to admit it, but we need you. We need you to join the ...
Rae Pica | Posted 10.11.2011
Early childhood professionals can play a part in helping young girls grasp that they are more than how they look. And they can start with how they talk to girls!
Lisa Bloom | Posted 09.13.2011
How do you find great books to read? Here's a reading list of books that will stir you, provoke you, keep you up at night and make you late for work, and get your grey matter sizzling.
Lori Day | Posted 08.15.2011
Following the publication of my recent Huffington Post article, "It's Time for the Global Village to Stand Up for Our Children," I feel much less alon...
Hilary Levey Friedman | Posted 06.01.2011
Is it possible that it is Amy Chua who has gotten it right? If parents don't let a little bit of their Tiger selves come out early, it's possible that Hymowitz's Cinderella model will reign supreme.
Tabby Biddle | Posted 11.17.2011
The wound that is being created and perpetuated by our cultural distortion and commercialization of female sexuality needs to be -- and can be -- stopped.
Susan Weissman | Posted 11.17.2011
Instead of telling our children that 'too much fat is bad' and 'being fat is bad,' maybe our message should be "Eat good fat."
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
The latest women's movement story from the New York Times Magazine has a farming theme. "The Femivore's Dilemma" by Peggy Orenstein describes how some...
Kari Henley | Posted 11.17.2011
As a mother, I have recently discovered Facebook. My kids knew about it long ago and I poo pooed it as another mindless waste of time. Finally, I join...
Deborah Stambler | Posted 04.03.2012