Now is the perfect time to assess your family’s approach to eating healthy and promoting positive body image. What’s your game plan for the school year? Here are a few tips to get you started…
Make after-school snacks into DIY projects
Remember this guy?

Yeah, the whole “wagon wheel” idea made plain ol’ cheese and crackers seem like [...]

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Want to squeeze in a few good reads before summer gets away? Need some fun titles to offset the sting of cracking open those textbooks for the first time? I’ve got THREE amazing books up for grabs. The winner takes the whole kit and caboodle.
To enter, just leave a comment. You can score a bonus [...]

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“Being a a good sport in any competition means recognizing that losing doesn’t make you a loser. The more you can learn about yourself from those tough breaks, the more of a winner you will be in life.”
–from the “Tough Breaks” chapter of You’re Amazing!

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On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. But nine months before, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for doing the same thing on a bus in the  same city. She had been learning about black history at school that month. Reflecting on the day she [...]

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First, the good news. On March 11th, President Obama created the White House Council on Women and Girls. The council will be responsible for ensuring that the U.S. government develops policies to address women’s health care, violence against women, women’s economic status, and issues of work/life balance.

The announcement was certainly cause for celebration (I’m not [...]

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Here is Sarah Jessica Parker in her pre-style maven days, wearing denim overalls and giganto-glasses for the role of Patty on Square Pegs. Those styling choices were not made by Patricia Field, although I can sort of imagine her finding a way to bring back that measuring tape tie SJP’s pal is wearing. If you [...]

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We’ve come a long way from Mad Men-style office secretary groping, but make no mistake–the boys club is still alive and well. Is there “Girl Power at School, but Not at the Office”? Hannah Seligson raises that question in her recent New York Times article.
Seligson writes that she grew up feeling empowered in the classroom, [...]

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The school year is quickly approaching (just writing those words gives me flashbacks to my own stomach knots), so I’m doing a few posts dedicated to some of the back-to-school themes in You’re Amazing!
Let’s start with shopping. Not the spiral notebooks and #2 pencils kind of shopping. No, I’m talking about those August trips to [...]

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I live right around the corner from a high school. Yesterday afternoon, I ran into a huge crowd of seniors–all of them carrying identical plastic bags. What was inside? Caps and gowns! Some students had unpacked the contents right there on the street, while others clutched theirs under their arms or against their chests. I [...]

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