Stop School Stress
Got a kid in your house who gets stressed out by schoolwork and tests? Never fear, Dr. Tim is here. Here are some suggestions for them to consider before the school year starts up. Stay […]
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Designer Lockers
School is just around the corner, and kids are starting to dread/think about the upcoming year. An article in the St.Louis Post Dispatch paper caught my eye yesterday, and I wanted to run it by
Adolescent Girls Lose Self-Esteem? I Don’t Buy It!!
We have been reading in the literature since the 1970’s that girls starting in middle school lose their self-esteem and don’t get it back for years. But from my experiences working with girls at these
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Girls and Body Image
I had a group of high school girls and boys at my camp last week draw pictures of the ideal woman at the age of 21 years. I separated the boys and girls for the
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A Spa Night at Camp
I just finished spending a week with 50 girls going into the 5th-9th grade at my Strong Girls Strong World Camp. When I told people what I was going to be up to, most of
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Finding A Best Friend
Starting in about the 3rd or 4th grade, girls begin to notice that their friendship groups start to change. Good friends from kindergarden start hanging out more with other people, and they experience a tremendous
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It’s Time for Camp!!!!
The excitement is building, because tomorrow 20 camp counselors will convene at my house to prepare for the equally jacked-up 50 campers who will descend on our camp Sunday afternoon for a week of fun-in-the-sun.
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Techno-Tattling
I was a little disturbed after reading an associated press article about a new technology that allows kids to report on bullying episodes via text as it is happening. Blackboard’s TipTxt program is being offered
A Fish Out of Water
I have decided that all the people who have been telling us for the past 40-50 years that girls lose their self esteems in middle and high school are off the mark. They have missed
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Girls and the Media
Two stories that have received a lot of attention lately have caused me to have more hope for our young girls. I’m speaking of Mike Jeffries, owner of Abercrombie and Fitch, and his comments about
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The Death of Princesses?
I have been fascinated reading about the latest debate on princesses, this time concerning the Disneyification (I just made up a new word!) of the lead character Merida from the movie Brave. The Disney company
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Our Kids Are Okay
If you ever get worried about the state of affairs of our youth today, just do what I did tonight; go to the musical Grease put on by an eighth grade class. Really. This group
The Un-Girl Solution- Part 1
As I have been writing my new book about adolescent girls, I have come across a slew of UN-words that describe some essential qualities all girls require for a healthy transformation from girl to woman.
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Fairy Tales and Myths
I referred to the value of fairy tales in my most recent blog, and I wanted to add a few comments here to state my case for why that is so. There is a reason
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The Value of Fairy Tales
As I read the recent stories about women who are trying to manage both a top-level career and their home-life, I am reminded of the lessons contained in many of the traditional fairy tales like
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LEAN BACK, NOT IN!!!
“Don’t lean back, lean in. Put your foot to that gas pedal and keep it there until the day you have to make a decision, and then make a decision. That’s the only way, when
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THE FAMILY iPAD
I saw a girl in my office recently who demonstrated a new phenomenon. During our hour-long counseling session, we discussed issues she was struggling with related to friendship dramas. But what struck me was how,
“I THINK I’M WEIRD!”
I was struck with something the actress Leslie Mann said in an interview in the December 21, 2013 issue of Entertainment Weekly. Here is a quote from the article: “When I was little, my family
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SULTRY SUPER BOWL
I watched most of the super bowl on Sunday, and I became extremely plugged into all the sexual content of the commercials and Beyonce’s half time show. And I worried once again about the effects
Middle Schoolers and Instagram Don’t Mix
There was another new story recently about someone at a local middle school misusing a social networking site to bully fellow students, this time Instagram. Which begs the question, at least for me: why are
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