Tag: daughters
How to Throw Your Daughter a Period Party
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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...