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How to protect our children from victim blaming

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My parents taught me how to keep myself safe. But they never told me if I got hurt, it wouldn’t be my fault. By Jamie Beth Cohen

October 27, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

When somebody says stop, you stop

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I’m raising two boys. And I am conscious of raising them to be people who hear and respond to the word “no.” By Brianne DeRosa

October 18, 2017 Culture, Parenting Advice

Excerpt: Shonda Rhimes on the greeting cards mothers really need

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I don’t think it ever occurred to me how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible. By Shonda Rhimes

October 17, 2017 Books, Culture

How storytelling helps my daughter stand up for herself

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The stories I make up for my child are more powerful than any book, because she is the heroine.
By Lauren Kosa

August 3, 2017 Family

The day I wanted to buy all of the President Barbies

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Are we all so jaded and depressed by Hillary’s loss that we’ve just said: to hell with it, mermaid Barbies from here on out?
By Carrie Friedman

June 29, 2017 Culture

What the Dutch can teach us about our daughters and sex

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While American parents are talking to their daughters about the risks of sex, the Dutch are talking about the joys of intimacy.
By Peggy Orenstein

October 10, 2016 Books, Culture

Girls & Sex, a review

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Peggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex is a deftly executed, non-judgemental cultural commentary on the complexities of female adolescent sexuality.
By Lauren Apfel

October 7, 2016 Books

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