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Why our daughters need more heroes like Eleven

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Somewhere deep down, these girls sense that rage is exactly the right thing to feel. By Nan Mooney

May 27, 2022 Culture

Watching Bridgerton with my daughter was worth the embarrassment

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Viewing the show together became a rite of passage for both of us. By Lori Tucker-Sullivan

January 27, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How to empower our daughters to find pleasure

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It’s your vagina, you’re allowed to love it all you want. By Ellen Hagan

January 25, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

A letter to my daughter about breasts

Pink ribbon for an awareness of Breast Cancer.
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The loss of my breasts made one thing clear. I had wasted so much time hating my perfectly good functioning body. By Jenny Leon

January 12, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Finding a little bit of hope in a dark time

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During my treatment, and in the months after, my daughters watched me closely. By Jessica Wahlstrom

December 17, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Figuring out how to talk to my daughters about religion

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I never tell my children what’s real or what to believe, I simply lend definitions. By Katherine Sargent

October 12, 2020 Family

Sibling relationships are powerful, in lockdown and out

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On their first day of homeschooling a punch was thrown over whose turn it was to use the laptop. By Sylvia Carr Clebsch

June 9, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Balancing feminism with caring about what I look like

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I’ve raised my daughter to believe that a preoccupation with one’s appearance is trivial, but I’m a traitor to the cause. By Rebecca Knight

May 13, 2020 Culture

I wanted a girl, but it’s so hard

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What would I have done if her shorts got shorter, tops dipped lower? If she learned to sharpen her body like a tool? By Rica Keenum

April 29, 2020 Culture

Glennon Doyle on why teen girls don’t think for themselves

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When I ask if they’re hungry, the girls are silent at first. Then each looks to a friend’s face to discover the answer. By Glennon Doyle

March 13, 2020 Books, Culture

Our family took a stand on our school’s dress code

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“No skinny pants” was a rule we could not and did not obey. Instead, we pulled our children out of the school. By Jennie Burke

October 2, 2019 Culture

How to give love as a mother when you are an unloved daughter

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“Why is she like that?” my son asks. I hesitate. There’s no denying my mother’s passive aggressive disdain towards me. By Elizabeth Maria Naranjo

September 4, 2019 Parenting Challenges

How to explain to kids you can’t be what you can’t see

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It’s not that my boys don’t need motivation. It’s that for their gender, empowerment is always readily available. By Annie D. Stutley

April 11, 2019 Culture

Why are girls more stressed out than boys?

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I now hear regularly about girls who are so fearful of disappointing their teachers that they skip sleep to do extra-credit work for points they don’t need. By Lisa Damour

February 11, 2019 Books, Culture, Family

Fighting the patriarchy one grandpa at a time

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“Oh, relax,” he says, ruffling my daughter’s wispy blonde hair. “We’re just playing.” By Lisa Norgren

November 21, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges

The day I found out my boyfriend sexually assaulted my daughter

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I am ashamed to admit I believed you were a good man who deserved to be forgiven. By Jo Hall

July 25, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Perspective | Why I let my young daughter wear a bikini

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I want my nine-year-old to carry herself without shame. By Daisy Alpert Florin

May 24, 2018 Culture, Parenting Advice

Perspective | Why I don’t let my young daughter wear a bikini

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I don’t care for any “sexy” clothing on little girls. By Sharon Holbrook

May 24, 2018 Culture, Parenting Advice

This is why I let my nine-year-old wear makeup

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Perhaps by allowing my daughter to experiment with her appearance and create her own reality, I can put the power back in her hands. By Erin Ott

April 12, 2018 Culture

My tangled relationship with my daughter’s hair

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We are forever snarled in each other’s hair, my daughter and I, invested in the consistency of the people we know best and need most. By Leslie Kendall Dye

April 9, 2018 Family, Parenting Challenges

Does my teen need a label for her sexual orientation?

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Maybe she will meet the “right” guy or girl. Maybe she will never be interested in sex.
By Melanie Lopez

September 12, 2017 Culture

On being a part-time working mom

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Mothers are not static entities. We evolve in this role, as in any other.
By Lauren Apfel

July 25, 2017 Culture

To my daughter who thinks she might be gay

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There’s so much against you: the world’s cruel prejudices, its judgment.
By April Vázquez

July 24, 2017 Culture

What happened when my daughter and I stopped straightening our hair

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For black women, wearing our hair in its natural state was—and still is, to some extent—considered defiant.
By Margaret Auguste

March 30, 2017 Culture

The 10 ways my sons and daughter are not so different at all

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Is my daughter a “tomboy” or a “girly girl”? She is neither and she is both.
By Lauren Apfel

March 22, 2017 Culture

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