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Bonding Over Beauty Isn’t So Pretty
Do you bond with your girl over beauty and the process to achieve it? Shouldn’t we be bonding with our girls over applying Band Aids to skinned knees, wiping dirt or finger paint off faces, fixing...
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Lying for The Scale: To Hell With That
Image via Fit Vs Fiction. Yesterday my friend and colleague Carrie Goldman (author, “Bullied”) tagged me in this post she wrote about her 10 year old daughter, K: “My 4th grade daughter told me that...
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Fancy Dresses and Hurtful Comments: A Lesson From Award-Winning Comedian...
A recent unfortunate event that comedian Sarah Millican experienced provides us with an important conversation starter for our kids. I’m uncomfortable raising my children in a culture where the public...
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This Is My Normal Face
Every morning I try to fix my hair or put on a touch of makeup to pull my overtired face together (I average four hours of sleep a night) before heading out with the kids. Usually only one happens,...
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Perfect Looking Girls at Target: Not Our Bullseye
The kids and I were running errands today and while walking past the girls’ section in Target my eight year old daughter Amelia asked me why all the girls on the signs looked perfect. At first I didn’t...
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Sex In A Bottle: Deconstructing Perfume Marketing With My Kid
The 8yo Original Pigtail Pal and I were at the mall yesterday running some errands when a marketing poster at the department store perfume counter caught her eye while I was making a return with the...
View ArticleThe Barbie Project: The Whole Conversation
We are overdue to change a conversation. A conversation is only as good as the information that travels through it. In order for a conversation to be a good one ideas need to be introduced, then ideas...
View ArticleLEGO Gets It And Seems To Not Care: The Elves Spa Edition
When the new LEGO catalog arrived I tossed it at my kids and said I needed birthday present ideas. While I love that my kids create and build with LEGO, I have really come to despise LEGO as a company...
View ArticlePulling Back Curtain On Beauty Myth
When young boys and girls are surrounded by media, marketing, and the entertainment industry nearly 24/7, what messages do they learn about beauty and physical expectations held by society? Let’s use...
View ArticleThe Expectations and the Authenticity Ten Hours After Birth
Looking at the photo of a royal ten hours after she had given birth made me curious about what other women’s stories were ten hours after giving birth. Those stories are below. I have been...
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