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What Is the Value of a Minute?
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute." - Albert EinsteinCredit Image: woodleywonderworks on FlickrDoing...
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How Kate Winslet Taught Me I'm Not Showing My Daughters the Right Things...
Recently, I’ve started to see my daughters’ bodies changing. Not quite puberty yet, but a little rounder here, a little curvier there. Yep, it’s almost time to have “the talks” in my house.I’ve done my...
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The Greatest Gift I Received on Mother's Day Was a Driveway
Yesterday was Mother's Day, and after opening my presents, the kids and I decided spur-of-the-moment to drive half an hour down the road to a movie theater that was having a special Mother's Day...
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They're Baaaack! 6 Tips to Help You Survive Summer with Your College Student
Over the next month or so, college students will be returning home to spend the summer with you. Within a few days, several of your conversations will begin with any or all of the following...
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Why Doesn't Princeton Review Rank Best Sexual Assault Prevention and Response...
As high school graduations are celebrated around the country, a number of seniors and parents are turning to the Princeton Review to make final choices about colleges, but the women's rights activist...
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Loving Your Daughter Through the Preteen Years
And then she said: Mom, I need a bra.A bra? For what? It was not yet time to worry about such womanly things.I pointed out that I didn’t get my first training bra until fourth grade. Suddenly it...
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Cup Shopping: What Do You Mean, "How Big Is He?"
Similar to the school supply list we moms are allotted at the beginning of every school year, baseball coaches should hand out a “baseball supply list” at the start of each season. How is a mom who...
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Parenting Book Fail: Ridiculous Parent/Child Dialogues
There are a lot of things that irk me about the parenting book world, but nothing quite ticks me off like the inane, complicated, Danny-Tanner-esque conversations all these multitudes of parents are...
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My Son and #YesAllWomen
Last week my firstborn, 14-year-old Elliott, informed me that a group of girls at his middle school were (and I am quoting him directly here) "causing a fuss about #YesAllWomen."I was delighted,...
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Everything I Want to Teach My Daughter About Life, She Can Learn From Maleficent
If those of us who have girls plan to continue perpetuating the idea of the fairytale, we should do our daughters a favor and require them to watch Disney's Maleficent around age 11. My husband and I...
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Should #DWT (Driving While Texting) Be A Misdemeanor, Even For Your Teens? A...
Editor's note: Yes, Ford is a regular sponsor of the BlogHer community. No, this is not a sponsored post. My 18-year-old son got his drunk on. He got behind the wheel of a car, picked up his mobile...
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Shame and Misplaced Blame: The Problems With a Girls-Only Dress Code
There's an article going around the internet right now about a sixth grade girl's outfit. A mother published on Slate after her daughter was made to wear an oversized t-shirt because her (mighty cute,...
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HelloFlo's"First Moon Party" Ad Got Periods Right, Parenting Wrong
HelloFlo—a start-up that offers a starter kit of supplies and information about menstruation for young women, as well as subscriptions for monthly care packages—went viral last year with the very funny...
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6 Things Your Teen Can Do This Summer
When I was in high school, everybody had a summer job, and we would meet to go to a movie in the evening or the beach on our day off. However, finding a job these days is hard for teenagers. The labor...
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Texting and Driving is Dangerous: How Can We Get Our Teens to Stop?
It’s been exactly a year since the day 18-year-old Merritt Levitan was killed while biking cross-country. She was on a national tour slated to last six weeks. Her group was pedaling through rural...
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Shopping with Tweens and Teens Is Harder Than Shopping with Toddlers
The other day, I found myself at the entrance of Target with the task of buying a birthday present for the party that started in half and hour, along with picking up a few basic necessities, such as...
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I Gave My Daughter Her First Joint
I gave my daughter a joint this past weekend.I don’t mean that to sound like it was no big deal, because it was not at all a casual decision. My daughter is almost 15 years old and a freshman in high...
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Embracing a Low-Tech Summer as a Tech-Loving Family
For the past few years, I have debated the benefits of letting my kids use technology during summer vacation. Most of the time, we are an unabashedly tech-friendly house. My kids have e-readers and...
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I Forgot My Son's First Words and Lied About It
First, let me say that I love my son. He has brought more joy to my life than I could ever have imagined.Good, now that we have that straight, I must confess.I don’t actually remember all of my son’s...
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Should Training Bras Be Sexy?
My sweet little thing is turning 12 in a month, and this girl is changing! Not only emotionally, but physically. A couple of months back, her friends started wearing training bras, so needless to say...
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