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Dialogue About Drama
With school start-up just a short time away, an ideal opportunity exists to get your daughter (or any other girl) discussing relational aggression. Rather than waiting to respond when a bullying situation occurs, spend some of your remaining downtime chatting with her and developing a proactive plan for the year ahead. Some tips: 1. Get [...]
Thrilled to be Tough
Just reviewed yet another research report that showed how often boys admit (and are even proud of) being considered a bullying type of person and how rarely girls will confess to the same. With Simon Baer Cohn’s book The Essential Difference” fresh in my mind, it’s shouldn’t be surprising that females hesitate to consider themselves [...]
Danish Dreams
As I mentioned in an earlier post, this past year involved many exciting projects for me. One in particular I’d like to share here was done in conjunction with Anne Marino, a social worker/actress/mom/community mobilizer/incredible gal pal I’ve known for several years. We had a group of middle school girls examine Hamlet with a critical [...]
Snow White and Other Wicked Mothers
It’s was interesting to read Demian’s last post, because the writing of my newest book just led me to revisit how women are portrayed in fairy tales. This is a well studied subject in feminist literature, but as I paged through the beautifully illustrated tales I read my own children, I realized that the female [...]
The Devil Wore Prada
If you’ve read the book, you know “The Devil Wears Prada” by Lauren Weisberger is very entertaining, and since Meryl Streep is one of my favorite actresses I find myself eager to see the movie. What I enjoyed about the novel (and a counterpart on the poetry publishing industry called “Apprentice to the Flower Poet [...]
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