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8 Tips For Raising Girls with Confidence

I grew up in a picturesque suburb of New York City. By all outside appearances, I had it together: confident, carefree, and a natural leader.  I went to college, built a high profile career in the media industry, got married, and had children. Then I had a daughter. The second I heard “it’s a girl,”…

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Building Confidence in Your Teen

The most awkward time for you child is when they stop being a kid but aren’t quite an adult. Their bodies are changing, and their hormones are going nuts. Some handle it gracefully, but most freak out. And it doesn’t help that the role models they are presented with in the media are airbrushed into oblivion and have press agents to make sure they’re saying the right things for their image. The reality your teen faces is filled with so much fake-ness, it’s hard for them to look at themselves and recognize that what is real is normal and perfect.

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Build Your Children’s Confidence!

I have always said that the single most difficult thing to do as a parent is to sing your childrens praise only because its constant, never-ending praise. The you are so smart, funny, cute, fast, a great artist, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, football player etc. is mentally exhausting. I never got that as a child. I was the last of five girls, and I am sure that by the time I came flying out …

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Ways to Gain Healthy Weight

If you are underweight and want to gain, you may not get a lot of sympathy from friends who are constantly battling to lose their baby weight or their freshman 15. The need to gain can be important to your overall health and self-confidence. In the quest to gain weight, it is important that you do it using healthy foods and methods so you gain without increasing your risk of heart disease, cancer and other health issues.