Forget What the Media Is Telling You About Your Body
I need 4 minutes and 34 seconds of your day. I need you to watch this — every woman, man, girl, and boy — and I need you to absorb it. I need you to give yourself permission to start loving and...
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The Tooth Fairy is Friends with Mermaid Barbies
We’ve had a go of it at our house lately. Taking our stalker to court after a year of being scared and harassed, wasp stings, and this week: Oral Surgery. It was a rotten way to spend a week in the...
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Purposeful
“At some point you have to wonder if this crap isn’t purposeful. And then you have to wonder why they’ve chosen to do this to our little girls.” –PPBB Community Member Miranda Lollis In response to...
View ArticleI Am Beautiful, In Every Single Way
This just happened: My family lives across the street from our state’s residential school for the visually impaired, and as I was walking to pick up Benny from preschool I saw one of their students...
View ArticleOn Being Six In A Sea of Sexy Dolls
Many times when I’m sharing discussions I have with 6yo Amelia as she and I work through our hyper-sexual culture, I tend to get a comment or two about she or I being judgmental towards other females....
View ArticleMeeting With Mattel about Monster High
In early September I flew to Los Angeles to Mattel’s corporate headquarters to take part in round table discussion called an “influencer meeting”. At the invitation of Jess Weiner, an independent...
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Two Worlds of Doll Shopping
I had an interesting experience this weekend while I shopped for the 18 inch doll that the OPP wants for Christmas. First, the obvious stuff like there were no boy dolls, most everything was pink and...
View ArticleWater Slides and Body Image
I wrote this on Saturday before heading to a birthday party for a good buddy of my kids. Happy to report, we all had a blast: We’re headed to a swim birthday party this afternoon, which means I have to...
View ArticleGo Look In the Mirror, After You Tell Me How You Feel You Look
This morning while getting dressed for school, the almost-seven year old Amelia rejected the t-shirt I had grabbed for her to go with her leggings and fleece jacket. It surprised me because it was the...
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What My Radio Flyer Wagon Has To Do With My Body Image
My family has just returned from our first real vacation — a trip to sunny Florida to spend an amazing week with my parents and brothers and their families in a big house by the beach. It was a perfect...
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Girls Gone Hiking
Amelia and I went hiking in the woods the other day. We were familiar with part of the trail but we started our walk from a different trail head so when we approached the wooden bridge she likes to...
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The Indoctrination of Little Girls
Before you comment on this post, I want you to see the forest through the trees. This single link encapsulates everything we are fighting for in one screen shot. Here’s what I want you focused on:...
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Barbie in a Bucket
“Mom, how big is my waist? Like how big around?” asked my 7yo daughter, Amelia, this morning while getting ready for school. “It looks like it is seven years old big, just right for holding in your...
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Should – Guest Post by Cammy Nelson
“Should” – A Guest Post by Cammy Nelson “Should” is a powerful little word that has drained more energy, caused more stress and produced even more frustration than I want to think about for as long as...
View ArticleTake Up Space
If I had a dollar for every time I have been told I am too forward, too intimidating, too bitchy, too aggressive, too you-fill-in-the-blank I could retire. The thing is, aside from being aggressive...
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How to Talk to Kids About the Viral Adobe Photoshop Video
Image from Adobe Photoshop video. Smoke and mirrors! There is a video making the rounds that shows the transformation of a normal looking woman into a supernatural looking model via Photoshop. I see a...
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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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Establishing Healthy Body Image in Young Girls: Start Early
There are two very powerful influences in the lives of young children that impact their body image: the media and their family. This can start as early as AGE THREE. Are you prepared? Is your home a...
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She Looks Just Like Me
I watch my daughter closely as she watches herself in the mirror. She looks just like me. I watch her as she looks at her dark eyebrows. Her front tooth with a groove on the bottom edge. She studies...
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