Tag: daughters

How to Throw Your Daughter a Period Party

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If you're an adult biological female, chances are you vividly remember getting your period for the first time. I was twelve years old when...

A Playlist for My Daughter: 15 Songs to Empower Girls

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I love my daughter. I really do. She is the sun in my sky and light of my life and rose in my garden...

International Women’s Day: Celebrating Inner Beauty and Strength

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I am an Iowa transplant, and one of the things that I loved about Iowa when I moved here was its diversity. When my...

Six Ways I Am Going to Raise My Daughter to Have...

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I scheduled my 20-week ultrasound for May 23, 2014, because it was my birthday. That morning, we found out that “Baby Marshall” would be...

‘Mother of Dragons’…I mean Daughters

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Some of you may recognize the title from Game of Thrones: "Mother of Dragons." Unfortunately, it is not original to me. However, there are...

Wake Up Call: My Role in My Daughter’s Future Body Image

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The other morning I was halfway watching the end of Good Morning America while stacking cups with my daughter, Ella. One of the segments caught...

A Letter To My Daughters About Their Father

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Dear girls, This month your father and I will be married 20 years. You don’t know it yet, but you have the best dad in...

Dear Daughter: Why I’m Tired

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Dear Daughter, I’ve seen you noticing lately. My droopy eyes. My hunched shoulders. My long, heavy sighs. You curl up next to me during bedtime...