Being a Positive Role Model: Seven Ways to Make an Impact

She wants to be just like you. Are you being a positive role model?
A role model is someone whose behavior is imitated by others. Of course, there are good role models and bad role models. There is even the counterintuitive anti-role model who behaves so badly that s/he serves as a good [...]

Dr. Robyn in Bye Bye Birdie: Guest Blogger

Wow! I had the most amazing weekend ever! As many of you know, our very own Dr. Robyn Silverman took on the role of Rosie Alvarez in Bye, Bye, Birdie…and I gotta tell ya…she was AWESOME!
I had the pleasure of watching the show on Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon and it seems that [...]

Game Day for Bimbos and Sweet Valley High’s Low Blow

This week was filled with some body image garbage.
(1) My colleague Amy Jussel brought this fabulous story to my attention this week: Bimbo Bait: Is Silence or Outrage the Solution for Digital Drek?
She says: “Just when you thought media influence on body image had reached the tipping point of toxicity, our pals at Beauty and [...]

Feeling “Too” Tall or “Too” Short: Another Body Image Challenge for Children and Adults

It can be challenging for children to feel like they can fit in, feel confident, and thrive when they feel so different from others. Yesterday morning’s (3-26) New York Times featured “The Life of a Tall Girl,” an essay by the exquisite Becky Thomas. This essay talked about the tough mental challenge to [...]

Feminists Forgiving of Fat, Research Says

Yesterday’s New York Times highlighted some new research on fat and feminism. Researchers (Viren Swami and team) out of the University of Westminster in London showed that those women who describe themselves as feminists were more likely to positively perceive a wider range of body sizes than non-feminists. The research was published in [...]

BeingGirl Article Removed Due to Concerned Blogs

Congrats to all those who wrote about it! Proctor and Gamble removed the controversial article from their BeingGirl.Com website that many of the Body Image and Parenting Blogs, including KMA, wrote about recently.
Here is the result from our concerned colleagues over at Parents for Ethical Marketing who complained personally:
“As of Saturday morning, the article [...]

Body Conscious or Body Obnoxious? A Controversial Website for Girls

A reader alerted blogger, Kate Harding, to a controversial article on www.beinggirl.com, a website sponsored by Tampax and parent company Procter & Gamble. Many of the body image blogs are talking about it since it’s message is not of positive body image but rather, of questionable tactics aimed to help barely pubescent girls stay thin.
Here [...]

Moms, Little Girls are Watching! Body Image and Addictions Passed On?

On a recent episode of Intervention, a show on A & E, a mother and daughter were highlighted. While the intervention was initially meant to be focused on the daughter, Caylee, it became clear that the mother, Christy, also needed help. As a young girl, Caylee remembers her mother [...]

Raising Strong, Confident Daughters: The Next Five Ways

How can we build up our daughters’ self confidence?
Parents can do so much to help our daughters’ thrive. You’ve read volume 1. Here’s volume 2 of raising strong, confident daughters:
(6) Catch your child “being good:” We often are quick to jump when our child is exhibiting poor behavior, however, when our child is making [...]

Raising Strong, Confident Daughters: The first 5 Ways

What does your daughter see when she looks in the mirror?

Creating Powerful Girls (Volume 1)

By Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman
The diet commercials are in full force which can only mean two things; bathing suit season is right around the corner and nationwide body image is getting ready to plummet. Many parents worry that between all [...]