My 9-year-old daughter is on the cusp of tweenagerhood. She still likes princesses and Tinkerbell and still cuddles with a stuffed bunny at night. But she also loves everything Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers…well basically any of those tween shows on the Disney Channel.
However, her twin brother isn’t teetering on the edge of being a tween. He’s trying to skip right over it and move on in to the teenage years. I blame his older brothers (our teens). He worships the ground the teens walk on and wants to do every single thing they do. (And they, in turn, pick on …read more

Three seventh-grade girls were forced to strip down to their bra and underwear during a strip search at school. The female teacher, who was apparently asked to conduct the strip search by the school’s principal, was searching for $42 that went missing from another student. It’s not clear why they suspected these three girls or if they actually found the money, but I’m not sure it really matters either way. If my place of employment suspected I had stolen from then they wouldn’t ask me to strip to my skivvies. Instead they would investigate and get the police involved if …read more

Next Saturday my eight year old daughter will go to her first dance, and what a handsome date she will have – her Daddy. It is the Father/Daughter dance with her Girl Scout troop.
And what does every girl need for such an event? A dress, of course! A task that was definitely easier said than done.
My daughter is 8, but she is a small 8 year old – her 5 year old sister is about to pass her. We had a hard time finding a dress that was small enough for her, but not baby-ish. After all, she is going …read more