Diane Levin recently spoke with Yahoo! Parenting about the recent cover of Sports Illustrated featuring Hannah Davis and the message it’s sending to our children
By Rachel Simmons | February 25th, 2010 | 107 comments As a relationship advice columnist for Teen Vogue, I get a lot of mail from girls in “no strings attached” relationships. The girls describe themselves as “kind of” with a guy, “sort of” seeing him, or “hanging out” with him. The guy may be noncommittal, [Click for more…]
The election of Republican Scott Brown to the US Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy made last week a very bad one for Democrats, Obama and a new political agenda. And appallingly as it turned out, when Brown made his acceptance speech, it also became a very bad week for girls and young women. During [Click for more…]
Many early childhood directors are worried about the ways they see young children trying to be sexy, and have bought copies of So Sexy So Soon for their resource libraries. They hoped that parents in the school community would read the book and discuss how they could improve the problems created by sexualized childhood. They [Click for more…]