by Michele Borba | Sep 28, 2011 | Empowering Girls
Q&A with Rachel Simmons, author of the must-read and revised ODD GIRL OUT One of the women I admire most in the fight on bullying is Rachel Simmons. Her work on building leadership with young girls is just profound and her books are magnificent. I met Rachel in...
by Michele Borba | Feb 24, 2011 | Empowering Girls, Stress, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Research shows a disturbing trend: girls are drinking and binging more to reduce stress. Parenting solutions to help young girls Think drinking is only a “boy” problem? Data from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America may make you think again. The survey results on...
by Michele Borba | Jan 29, 2011 | Empowering Girls, Self-Confidence, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Parenting advice to raise strong, secure girls from the inside out and counter those racy, raunchy “what you have to look like” type images that rob self-esteem These days it’s almost impossible to not read the diet of some pencil-slim celeb. Photos of...
by Michele Borba | Jan 11, 2011 | Empowering Girls, Parenting, Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution
Steps to reduce female cruelty and relational aggression and raise compassionate, respectful girls Forget “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Research too often shows a different picture with all too many of our daughters. “Vicious, mean, calculating and...
by Michele Borba | Dec 9, 2010 | Empowering Girls
Puberty Onset Four Years Earlier American Academy of Pediatrics: Over a decade ago, Marcia Herman-Giddes, a pediatrician and now professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, noticed many young girls in grades one to five were showing public...
by Michele Borba | Jul 25, 2010 | Empowering Girls, Late Breaking News, Parenting, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Parenting advice to raise girls from inside out and stop the outside wrinkle-free, large-breasted, pencil thin craze. Enough! Ask teen girls what is on their birthday wish list these days, and you may get a surprise answer: Botox! Yep, that appointed “youth wonder...