Hair Removal & Self-Conscious Tweens
How do you strike the right balance between body positive talk and practical help for your tween daughter who is self-conscious about a little extra facial hair?
How do you strike the right balance between body positive talk and practical help for your tween daughter who is self-conscious about a little extra facial hair?
Feel like you’re a better mother for giving all of yourself to your kids? Turns out that the best thing you can do is keep some of that for yourself.
Sure, we know to avoid comparing siblings to one another, but in trying to bolster and protect my kids this way, I very nearly screwed up even more.
I’m learning that it was never my son’s special needs that made his life more challenging, but his lack of self-esteem. What a difference some self-love makes!
On post-everything hair, skin, body issues…and how to not let them define your self-image.
A couple of life lessons I want to pass down to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, about the importance of a positive body image and the consequences of surrounding herself with people who hurt, not help, that image.
You’re nothing like me, in all the best ways possible. Where I am shy, you are confident. Where I am weak, you are strong. Where I am laid back, you are fierce.
Make a name acrostic using your kids’ best character traits to encourage them.
Women’s Day magazine and AOL Body (is that a thing, AOL Body? A place people go?) conducted a poll, you guys! A poll! It was on the Inarnet, I think it’s called, and women were asked, would they rather have Jennifer Aniston’s body or a…