Archive for the 'Tween Girls' Category

Yippee It’s Spring Concert Tonight!

Oh I’m a bad mother for even thinking this but I believe I would rather have hot pokers stuck in my eyes than go to my 3rd grade daughter’s Spring Concert. In the spring the concert includes both 2nd and 3rd graders. What this means is that if you want to have any shot of […]

Here’s Another Way To Torture Young Girls …

… Weigh them in public - school no less! I cringed when I read the Reuters’ article Obesity screening for schoolchildren questioned. In the UK schools are monitoring the weight of schoolchildren aged 4-5 years and 10-11 years old. This is done in the name of keeping "track of the nation’s obesity problem".
This article struck […]

Dove: Real Beauty

Great quick little reminder by Dove for our daughters!

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Tween’s, Training Bras and Ta-Ta’s

My daughter would kill me if she knew I wrote this on my blog about her so I need to keep it a secret! She is 9 years old and just starting to ‘develop’. I recently got her some sports bra’s for girls. She hates them! Complains daily. She really isn’t developing any earlier than […]