“We aren’t always our best selves, but when we know better we can do better.” With three girls in my house ages seven through thirteen, you can imagine the number of living examples I get to observe of the topics I’ve studied like girl aggression, the female brain, the developmental […]
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When Words Don’t Get Through…. Your hand touches her shoulder and you can feel the reaction. First a stiffening, and then a relaxation. Just hang in there. The largest organ in your body is covered with touch receptors designed to feed information to the brain about what is going on […]
And then she becomes Nine…. Daughters grow up fast. At first they are those adorable, wrap you around your pinkie sweethearts. By four, they have a personality and the language to use it. As they round the corner on six and seven, that personality requires a little reigning in to keep them out of trouble. Those sassy words that used to be cute are now kind of offensive. I […]