This is one of my favourite things to talk about and to teach. Why? Because creating a close connection with your daughter can be so hard. So I love to help! Disconnection is all to easy as both you and your growing girl are busy, tired, and distracted by screens and social media. Yet, cultivating connection is essential for growing girls to feel seen, heard, and validated. That is why I created a handout for you available in the resources section. It’s a free PDF! Download your copy here!…

It is so easy for girls to make a mistake and then feel ashamed. Quickly and easily they can fall down the shame spiral – recalling every mistake they’ve ever made, criticizing themselves, and feeling terribly and alone. Would you like some quick ideas for how to help your growing girl out her shame spiral? First, teach her to meet herself where she is at: “I am feeling ashamed about XYZ and I will be here for myself in this moment (even though its so uncomfortable and I want to avoid it)”. Second, help…

First published in Red Tri If she’s like most growing girls, she’s begging you for a phone and she feels ready to jump into social media. If you are like most parents, you are not ready (yet). The New York Times tells us that students are spending over eight hours each day on their phones, mostly scrolling and swiping through social media, creating videos on Tik Tok, watching You Tube Videos, and of course chatting on Snapchat. Girls tell me all the time how much they love social media – feeling they belong to the…

First Published at Red Tricycle on October 20, 2020 Is your daughter (or the growing girl in your life)…1. NEVER confident? 2. SOMETIMES confident? or 3. ALWAYS confident? If you are like most parents, teachers, and girl champions today, you will likely see that she is wavering between numbers 1 and 2, unlikely to be anywhere near number 3. I am so curious why girls seem to be confident until around age 8 or 9. Then, their confidence wanes, enormously. What happens? Where does this confidence go? And, most importantly, how do we work together…

First seen in Red Tricycle, August 5, 2020 It’s been months now since her social media feeds have been flooded with horrific images, posts, and stories about racism. In the midst of a global pandemic, we are witnessing senseless police brutality against black people, protests, marches, and social unrest. In my perhaps naïve attempt to promote social awareness, my conversations with girls, honestly, were disappointing. As I passionately talked about black lives mattering, systemic racism, and white privilege, specifically the murder of George Floyd and Amy Cooper who called the police on a black…