As a parent, I find myself alternately loving the continued growth and maturity of my children and dreading the moment when they decide that their world will no longer be centered under our shared roof. As all children should eventually do, they’ll begin to look more and more out the kitchen window and wonder just …
Sometimes I wonder if my dad knew what he was getting into when he fought for split custody. I was just nine years old at the time, the youngest by far of his four kids. For the first time in his life, my dad, a dude in his 50s, had to take responsibility for every …
Pop Quiz: Who does a teen girl turn to first when she’s feeling low on courage? If you guessed friends, you’d be wrong. The answer was moms. Surprised? So were we. In Girls Leadership’s first major study, “Dare to Dream, Dare to Act: What Girls Say About Bravery,” 77% of girls ages 13-17 said they …
Are You Coming Back to Work? There are a few pregnant women at my office, and as their bellies grow, so do the number of questions they are constantly asked. In addition to the usual queries about gender and due dates, one I frequently hear is, “Are you going to come back to work?” I never …
Remember that small terrifying voice in your head when you left the hospital with your daughter… “wait, aren’t they supposed to give me a manual or something?” My wife and I brought two different perspectives to the parenting of our daughter, forged through years of being parented and life experience. Also, being self-aware and truthful, …
Dear Friends, Camps are blossoming all over! This week we are running a Day Camp for the students of The Young Women’s Leadership School in Brooklyn, then our first Summer Day Camp is breaking ground in Boulder, CO, followed by our flagship three-week overnight camp at Smith College (seven spots left!). Read below to learn …
Dear Friends, January rocked. We got to see 60 girls at our winter reunion, 134 girls signed up for summer camp, and 225 new families took part in our Real Parents, Real Daughters workshop series! When we weren’t teaching or working on new programs we were taking in some amazing new resources for supporting the …
