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Prom Season is Breaking My Bank Account!
Our house has been crazy (well crazier than it normally is with six children running around) as my two oldest daughters have been busy preparing for their junior/senior proms. For months they have laid awake at night talking about what they would wear and shared their visions of the Cinderella moment that would soon be here.
Mom Spends $100K In Surgeries To Look Like Jessica Rabbit
We all have our ideals of beauty... those role models we wish we looked like... Some of us are content to sigh while accepting what we are. This one mother decided she wasn't about to accept anything. She wanted to look like Jessica Rabbit (from the cartoon "Roger Rabbit") no matter the cost. Bee Cameron…
Women, Girls and the Cost of Being Female
A recent study by the McKinsey Global Institute offered a startling calculation: the world can gain $12 trillion by 2025 simply by empowering women and achieving gender parity in the work place and our homes. This is big news for international leaders, multinational corporations, banking conglomerates – and moms and daughters everywhere. “The Power of…
Why Smart Women Trade on Their Looks
When London School of Economics research fellow Catherine Hakim published Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom in September, the mix of sex, candor, and salary stats c
Tom, Katie and Why it Never Pays to Marry a Rich Man
Two years ago, one of my daughters made the colossal mistake of declaring, to the family, that she was not going to finish high school. Im just going to marry a rich man, she said. Shed been watching a few too many episodes of The Kardashians. Fortunately for her in the long run – albeit unfortunately for her in the short run — we all set about educating her.