Raising girls

Teens can get a bit obsessed with checking themselves in the mirror, it’s partly because they become intensely self-conscious in these years but also because they’re looking to see who they are.  [...]

We need shy girls and loud girls and bright girls and sensitive girls. We need all the different kinds of girls that there are, so we have everything covered.

What are my options if I want to swim, dance or horse-ride when I'm on my period?

The adults in their lives can make a real difference to changing this shocking statistic.

A wonderful way to help your daughter feel prepared for her first period.

Dear Kim, Thank you for bringing us all together, Hopefully we’ll be friends forever. We will live our lives feeling very lucky, Even though our pants might get red and yucky. We giggled and [...]

One in four girls is clinically depressed by the time they turn 14, what can we do to change that?

In the teen years the world does not look like it did as a child, or how it will as an adult.  Teens’ brains are under reconstruction and they really do feel things more intensely.

I wonder what you most wanted at thirteen... and what you imagine today's thirteen year old girls wish for…?