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I have two sons, ages 6 and 3, so I guess have a more time before I have to start worrying about them transforming into hormone-raging cads. But if today’s world of sexting, rainbow parties, Girls Gone Wild and Tila Tequila is any indication of what’s to come, I’m going to have my hands full.
Moments after President Barack Obama got the news about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, his excited daughters came to congratulate him.
In her book "The Curse of the Good Girl," author and educator Rachel Simmons writes that girls are taught by society not to share their voices and opinions. Here, she offers tips for how parents can counter those messages to raise girls who are able to reach their potential.
It was a scene of pure Americana: A community swimming pool on a sunny Fourth of July, outside of which two young girls had set up a stand to sell patriotic hats and T-shirts, trying to help their dad’s struggling business during challenging economic times.
Finally, something that intimidates President Barack Obama: a bunch of tween girls.
For every 100 girls born to Vietnamese families, there are 112 boys born, a disparity in the sex ratio that has been rapidly increasing in recent years, an official said Thursday.
The parents of two young girls who were each placed on wrong flights while flying alone over the weekend are demanding that Continental Airlines make sure such mix-ups don't happen again.
A year after two young girls were gunned down while taking a walk outside a rural Oklahoma town, authorities are stumped — no motive and no arrests.
Baby bump watchers may want to keep their eyes on Mel Gibson’s suddenly famous other-woman Oksana Grigorieva. According to , Grigorieva is “definitely pregnant” with Gibson’s child.
It’s no wonder World War II is a popular backdrop for video games, what with all the bullets flying, the Nazis marching and the international air thick with drama and intrigue. War is hell, but it sure as hell makes for some compelling storytelling and gameplay.
For a lot of girls, it's the ultimate fantasy: to be discovered and make it big as a model or actress.
In less than a week, Anna Nicole Smith’s former attorney and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, is due in court to answer to charges that he furnished the star with prescription medications, but if Smith’s father has his way, Stern could have another court date soon.
North Carolina-bound Tierra Ruffin-Pratt scored 10 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to earn co-MVP honors as she led the West over the East, 69-68 in the eighth annual girls McDonald's All-American game.
Ubisoft made its fortunes selling squad-based shooters like the"Rainbow Six” series and the"Ghost Recon” games. You know, real guy stuff. So what are they doing selling games about clothes, babysitting and ballet?
President-elect Barack Obama's two daughters were whisked into their new schools on Monday past a line of waiting photographers.
They're only 10 and 7, and already designers are angling to dress them. They've been on the cover of People and Us Weekly. And there's that standing invitation — unlikely though it is to be redeemed — to the set of "Hannah Montana."
First daughters are popular by definition, but Barack Obama's girls Sasha and Malia's friend requests, to borrow from the parlance of Facebook, are becoming more impressive by the day.
The bullying came at school dances and in class, on Facebook and back at the dorm by girls who called themselves "Oprichniki," a Russian attack squad notorious for torturing suspected enemies of a 16th-century czar.
There was nothing exceptional about the blanket, really: No shiny, satin trim, no crocheted pattern, no waffled weave. It was just a plain, acrylic blanket, something plucked off a rack at a discount outlet.
Forget the psychologists and relationship experts, guys. If you really want to know how to meet girls, snuggle up to a clever little book written by 9-year-old love guru Alec Greven.
A Saginaw man was charged Wednesday with fatally beating his wife in an incident that sparked a brief nationwide search for the couple's missing children.
Parents, brace yourselves: The survey results are in, and you may not like what they reveal about girls and sex.
The crowd noise at the New Kids on the Block show at Madison Square Garden on Monday Oct. 27 almost defies description. Imagine a wave composed of root-beer lip balm, Barbie hair and sparkly hugs breaking you, and that might begin to explain the sensory experience.
Why Canada can't stop bullies - Parentcentral.caDaniel Sebben was just 13 when the taunts began. Day after day, for the next three years, the Newmarket high school student faced homophobic slurs, insults and verbal abuse from a group of six boys.
"Hit The @!$%#" Game Is Supposed to Deter Domestic Violence??The website was set up by a Danish anti-violence advocacy group, and ostensibly has a good message: making clear to men that domestic violence is unacceptable.
Wife posed as girl in online trap A suspicious wife posed as a teenager online to catch her husband propositioning girls in a chatroom, Cardiff Crown Court has heard. Cheryl Roberts, 61, pretended to be a 14-year-old girl and was asked by David Roberts, 68, to meet for sex.
Can a Boy Wear a Dress to School?If the skirt is an acceptable length, can a boy wear it? Can a girl attend her prom in a tuxedo? In recent years, a growing number of teenagers have been dressing to articulate — or confound — gender identity and sexual orientation.
Listen up girls! There is so much drama and bullying at school... it has to stop! Girls are getting beat up and it is jsut childish! I would think that there would be more fights against guys other than girls... THIS HAS TO STOP
Afghan Girls Burn Themselves To Escape Marriage HERAT, Afghanistan – We watched a teenage girl die last Friday. Seventeen-year-old Shirin had been brought to the Herat Regional Hospital Burns Unit a few days before we met her. Ninety percent of her body was covered in third-degree burns.
Why Health Care Reform Is More Important Than EverYou're away for work on a business trip. You go out to a bar and two men offer to buy you a drink. The next thing you know you wake up on the side of the road with cuts and bruises on your body indicating that you were raped. The men who bought you drinks had drugged you.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Defying the Taliban to get an educationAround the world, millions of children have to go to great lengths to get a decent education. In the fifth dispatch in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Aleem Maqbool reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley, where girls are defying Taliban attempts to stop them going to school.
Polanski, "Hounddog" and 13-year-old voicesAs a society, we're just not much interested in listening to 13-year-old girls' thoughts on what they do with their own bodies, and what's done to them Interesting article about real-life-rape, rape-in-film, and the autonomy of girls.
Would You Prefer To Be Slapped Or Game With A Girl?It's your money — spent it the way you like. Newly opened Akihabara business "Cute Room" is offering otaku a bevy of girlfriend-like services that include playing video games, watching DVDs and playing board games with young female (paid) friends.
12 Hottest Geek Girls There has been a sharp rise recently of so-called geek girls, and the sad fact is that many, if not most, of these women are nothing near geeky. While the elusive geek girl does, in fact, exist, she's much less common than most would care to admit.
I need a diversion from politics for awhile, so I thought I'd think about something completely off the topic.
Tyler Perry Graphically Recounts His Own Childhood Sexual AbusePerry wrote that while at a playmate's house when he was about 10 years old, his friend's scantily clad mother locked his friend in the bathroom and told Perry to leave.
Girls have more chores than boys, survey saysMore girls than boys must do household chores, according to Highlights first "state of the kid" survey.
Sexual Favor Gone Bad"I have a younger friend who dates a Psychology TA at her school, and she sent me this amazing exchange he had with a student last semester." Read the exchange...
Girls warned not to hide boyfriends' gunsA campaign warning girls not to stash or carry guns for their boyfriends was launched by London police Wednesday.
Quite the predicament, having a kid. Many make it seem the most difficult thing to do, yet others make it seem like it is the easiest thing in the world. I would have to say it is as easy or as hard as the parent wants to make it.
Police arrest 8 girls after youth football fightBoynton Beach police say they stopped a fight that broke out at a youth football game and involved about 20 to 30 girls.
The Age You Lose Your Virginity Might Be Determined by Your Genes Girls who grew up without fathers at home tend to be early bloomers in the sex department compared with those whose fathers lived with them.
Birth Control Access Threatened by RecessionFor politicians (John Boehner), pundits (Chris Matthews) and all of those people who insist that family planning is a "women's issue" that has nothing to do with the far more serious economic crisis, here's a newsflash: it's all connected.
11 Things Wal-Mart Has BannedRetail giant Wal-Mart is the world's largest public company, and whether or not you're a fan of shopping at the House that Sam Walton Built, you've got to admit that the store stocks just about everything. But not quite, though.
Happy Hour (or Drunk Chicks)Three chicks celebrate Happy Hour and each hour that ensues. The longer the drink the more their good judgement goes out the window. New Tomboys in Fishnets video that parodies the progression of drunkenness after Happy Hour passes.
No charges for boy who took pictures in girls' restroom A male student secretly took pictures of girls using the restroom at Cypress Bay High School in Weston but won't be charged because none of the photos showed the girls naked, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office report.
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How We Sabotage Young Girls There is nothing wrong with being a nice person, nor is it my intent to undermine the unique sensibilities of women and girls. But girls need to have the tools to say no, to ask for what they need, and to say what they think.
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