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Week in Review, Weekly Essentials

Week in Review: 1/13-1/19

No Comments 19 January 2013

Take advantage of the nice long weekend to catch up on Beautyskew: Kids are never too young to appreciate the beauty of Design: Weekend Observations: Even Kids Get the Design Thing It’s not just girls who are plagued by body image issues.  We must focus on boys too Boys Feel it Too: Negative Body Image More [...]

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Sites and Sounds, Weekend Observations, Weekly Essentials

Weekend Observations: Even Kids Get the Design Thing

1 Comment 13 January 2013

I was walking in the streets of the Upper West Side of NYC with my younger two kids this morning.  During a conversation with my daughter, my 9-year-old son interrupts me to let me know he just saw something cool.  A minute earlier, he happened to notice a logo for a waxing salon, maxwax. (See [...]

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Weekend Observations, Weekly Essentials

Weekend Observations: The new “f” bomb

1 Comment 21 October 2012

My daughter dropped the “f” bomb.  No, I don’t mean “fuck”, which unfortunately she may actually know given she’s the third child.  No, she said “fat.” A little context: I was home after a week of traveling, eating a yummy (and a bit greasy) dinner with the whole fam, and enjoying every bit of it. [...]

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A Cultural Perspective, Beauty Theories

Should We Ban Fairy Tales? Our Perspective

1 Comment 29 March 2012

I just read a review of a new book, Princess Recovery: A How-To Guide to Raising, Strong Empowered Girls Who Can Create Their Own Happily Afters.  While this isn’t the first critical analysis of fairy tales, based on the review, I think the book gives a refreshing approach to how to deal with these stories [...]

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A Cultural Perspective, Beauty Theories

The Real Issue with Little Girls and Pageants

No Comments 15 March 2012

How can you NOT reel in horror when you see all the pics of toddler beauty pageants?  With Toddlers and Tiaras in full swing, you’d think I’d get used these images.  But I can’t.  I’m not the only one, clearly.  A few months ago People magazine did a whole feature on it. But am I a [...]

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