Raising Daughters

Be Kind to Your Body: Your Daughter Will Be Wearing It Someday

Rebecca Silverman Fitzgerald | Posted 05.14.2012

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Rebecca Silverman Fitzgerald

When my daughter asks whether there's another baby in my not-perfectly-flat tummy, or even why I wear makeup, I find myself bending like a limbo champ to get my answer right.

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When Parents Just Aren't Enough Fun

David Valdes Greenwood | Posted 01.21.2012

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David Valdes Greenwood

It's not like she can't get one dad or the other to sit on the floor and enact elaborate serial dramas involving Barbie talent shows. But there comes a point when pretend-play fatigue sets in. And we adults reach that point long before she does.

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There Goes "Mom of the Year" Honors! My Award-Winning Lesson on Personal Responsibility

Signe Whitson | Posted 11.26.2011

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Signe Whitson

I just blew my shot at "Mom of the Year." Again. Like a storm that I didn't even know was brewing inside of me escalated to flood stage when my daughter said casually, "Mama, I don't care for the blueberry pudding."

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The Future Of Women And Girls

Tabby Biddle | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tabby Biddle

The wound that is being created and perpetuated by our cultural distortion and commercialization of female sexuality needs to be -- and can be -- stopped.

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