November Challenge: What I Am Thankful for Today
November 10th — Today I am thankful that I am not a competitive person. I don’t condemn anyone who is a competitive person because I am aware that a lot of competitive people reach their...
Posts Tagged ‘Girls Can Do Anything’
Why Meghan Trainor Did NOT Write an Empowering Anthem for Healthy Body Image…
I wrote something recently about this song on my personal page. I was making more of a joke, but the discussion got started about how I feel about the song “All About That Bass”. I...
Get Bigger with Wisdom, But Never Grow Old!
I could NOT love this more! There’s a time and a place for seriousness, and there is most certainly a time and a place to be responsible, BUT there is never a time in our...
Reproductive Justice: Learn What It’s REALLY About
As a former single mother, this is so very important. A society that puts a child’s wellbeing behind the importance of the workplace is simply saying that a parent’s job is not the #1 priority,...
Let them be children. Let them be young. Let them alone.
I have never even THOUGHT about dragooning my daughter into “fixing” her already-perfect self. Yes, my daughter has very (gorgeous) bushy eyebrows. She also doesn’t like to brush her hair thoroughly. She also doesn’t always...
Don’t Use Your Children as a Weapon
No matter what happens in your adult life — no matter what hardships you suffer, what wrongs have been done onto you, or if someone disappoints and becomes an absent or deadbeat parent — don’t...
Being Nice to Someone You Dislike Doesn’t Mean You’re Fake
You can turn your dislike for someone into indifference. This makes it much more simple to cast aside the behavior, actions, or words of others. It does *not* mean you are fake, as this image...
9/10/2013 – Today’s Top 3 Things I Would Like to Tell My Daughter Going into Adulthood:
9/10/2013 Today’s Top 3 Things I Would Like to Tell My Daughter Going into Adulthood: 1. Travel! It’s not always easy to travel because travel takes both money and time, and often times, we have...
Don’t Waste Words on People Who Deserve Your Silence (Mandy Hale)
Understandably so, this is not always the easiest thing to do, but very many times it is so very worth it in the end. 1) You don’t end up wasting your very valuable time on...
A Gallant Girl: The Early Days of Heather Angelika :)
I previously mentioned how I was the president of my 2nd grade class and how I hung a poster from my desk that said, “Girls can do anything!” Well, last week my mother sent me...