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You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self Are you a parent or caregiver of girls? Check out the NEW For Parents section on the Girls Inc. website.
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The world thinks girls should be mean to each other over things that really don't matter. I think girls should respect one other and be positive role models for younger girls.
You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self It's Teen Read Week! What are YOU reading?
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In honor of YALSA’s Teen Read Week (October 18-24), I’m revisiting two of my favorite teen reads: Heaven to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace. As a girl, I devoured ...
It’s been mighty busy with the book launch! In case you missed any of the action, here’s a quick roundup: Win a copy of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? There are two book giveaways running right now. Go throw your name in the hat! 1. Si...
The countdown is over and our “due date” has arrived ! Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby is out today. Fi...
You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self Video: Girls take action to improve the body image of women and girls.
I finally caught the HBO documentary “Youth Knows Knows No Pain” last night. Filmmaker Mitch McCabe is the 38-year-old daughter of a plastic surgeon. She grew up looking at her father’s before/after photos of patients and her feelings about getting older are complex, to put it mildly. But ...
You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self Check out this post on Daughters.com from Rachel Simmons, author of "The Curse of the Good Girl"
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I’ve been re-reading “The Power of Now,” which I like to pull out when I feel pesky thoughts getting the better of me. Especially those middle of the night ones. Did she not reply to my email because she’s ...
You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self From supergirls to superwomen...Why we need to encourage more risk-taking behavior among women:
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Over the past few months Deborah Spar, president of Barnard College and former professor at Harvard Business School, has been promoting the idea that if there had been more women on Wall Street, the financial ...
You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self "Real Life Doesn't Need Retouching." New ad campaign targets Australian youth.
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As part of its ongoing commitment to addressing body image issues in the community, the Victorian Government's Office for Youth has produced the above animated ad, encouraging young people to take a stand ...
You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self In his speech to students yesterday, President Obama talked about the importance of making mistakes. Don't let those mistakes define you. Let them teach you.
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today rested on two twin pillars of his vision: there is great hope and great potential in America; but the fulfillment of that hope is dependent on hard work and taking personal responsibility.
It’s the countdown to the release of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? on Ocotber 1st! ...
I am quoted in this article, which appears in today’s Wall Street Journal. In 1986, journalist Jeff Zaslow wanted to further explore a recently released statistic that 80% of fourth grade girls were dieting. He went into an elementary and interviewed girls and boys to get the truth. ...
You're Amazing! A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self You're Amazing mentioned in this WSJ article:
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Jeffrey Zaslow revisits the young girls—now grown women—whose dieting habits he wrote about in the 1980s.
The winner of Boyology, North of Beautiful, and School of Fear is Kim! Email me your mailing address and I will send your books on their way. Thanks to everyone who entered. More book giveaways will be posted soon!
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Girls have never felt more pressure to be perfect than now. With jobs so scarce and actresses as skinny as toothpicks, there is pressure coming from all directions. Claire Mysko, working with the organization ...
