By Peg Streep — 2020
Looking at the collateral damage we rarely talk about.
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Being a single father to a daughter can be particularly daunting, as you navigate all the social situations, complex feelings, and developmental changes your daughter experiences throughout her youth—without a firsthand understanding of some of what she's going through.
What’s it like to raise a daughter? The answer to that question is as different as each individual child, as well as each individual parent.
Teens want honesty from adults just as adults crave the truth from teens. If we both want the same thing, why is it so hard to get there?
As children grow and their digital imprint becomes greater, so does their need to feel validated. But it is important to encourage the value of self-worth and validating ourselves.
By linking their value to approval from others, they are searching outside of themselves in order to feel good and worthy.
“We’re raising our girls to be perfect, and we’re raising our boys to be brave,” Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani has argued in a viral TED Talk. The difference is important.
Every woman has an awkward story about her period. And some of that awkwardness might be due to the fact that periods, although a completely natural and vital part of humanity, are shrouded in taboo (in fact, the word taboo, from the Polynesian word tapua, means “menstrual flow”)!
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We’ve all heard of the gender pay gap in the workplace (including the so-called “motherhood penalty” and “fatherhood bonus”), but research shows that inequitable compensation between boys and girls starts in the home, with chores and allowance.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends starting to teach children about sexuality as early as 18 months, which allows them to learn about themselves slowly and over time, just as they learn about absolutely everything else.
The world puts limits on girls, telling them what they can't do because they are girls. As a result, girls learn to play it safe, look pretty and smile. Instead, we can teach her to use phrases such as "I will try," "I can improve," and "I am going to do this."