All posts tagged "raising girls"
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Jayme Kennedy | October 17, 2017
Little Girl Admiring a Soccer Referee in Viral Photo Shows Us Why Representation Matters
A 4-year old girl saw a soccer referee with long hair like hers, and asked her dad if...
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Valerie Williams | November 3, 2014
8 Things Every Mother Will Have To ‘Let’ Her Daughter Do At Some Point
When I found out my first child was a girl, I was a little freaked out.
Theresa Edwards | September 12, 2014Roller Derby Makes My Daughter Fearless
Every Monday and Wednesday, my daughter spends her evenings with people with names like Chainsaw and Problems. They...
Theresa Edwards | July 31, 2014Wishing For Boys When You Have A House Full Of Girls Makes You A Terrible Parent
Your child is your child, right? Who cares what kind of junk it sports? Well, apparently not everyone...
Theresa Edwards | July 16, 201410 Reasons I’m Happy To Be Raising A Girly Girl
I hadn't given a whole lot of thought to the concept of gender after my initial celebration over...
Eve Vawter | June 24, 2014Don’t Teach Your Young Daughter How To Wear ‘Appropriate’ Makeup
My nine-year-old daughter has a makeup bag. It's filled with all of my leftovers, lipstick shades I decided...
Taima Baudelaire | June 17, 2014My Daughter Is Worth Way More Than Her Virginity
Being a woman seemed to come with rules, even when I was small. Most of it hinged on...
MamaLoveJunkie And MotherTougher | May 29, 2014Mama Love Junkie and Mothertougher: I’m Beautiful And Heartbroken About My Ugly Child
I know that I shouldn’t care, and that I should tell her that she is beautiful because of...
Theresa Edwards | May 13, 2014The Only Thing Your Kid Will Get Out Of The Modeling Camp Scam Is A Body Complex So Don’t Bother
I am sure that there will be tons of bland, expensive summer camps for all of us to...
Eve Vawter | April 24, 2014Why I Tell My Daughter She Is Pretty Every Day
I have a beautiful little nine-year-old girl. She has gigantic warm melty chocolate eyes and waist length curly...
Rebecca Eckler | March 18, 2014My Daughter Saying She’s Fat is Way More Disturbing Than Her Saying The Other ‘F’ Word
My daughter is so skinny that she has been stopped a handful of times to be asked to...
Eve Vawter | March 11, 2014Maybe Telling Your Daughter She’s Fat Isn’t The Worst Thing You Can Do
I wonder if I had been taught how to deal with my weight like Charlotte Alter's mother taught her...
Rebecca Eckler | February 20, 2014My Daughter Is ‘Cool’ And That’s Way Better Than Being ‘Popular’
But, as my daughter explained, the MOST popular of “The Populars†take the private shower stalls. “But how...
Joanne M. Brathwaite | February 19, 2014(UPDATED) Despite What My Doctors Told Me, I’ll Give Birth To My Daughter Today
When it was clear that we had no intentions of terminating the pregnancy, we got the consolation prize...