By now you probably have heard of the controversy over Thylane Loubry Blondeau, a 10 year old model who recently “graced” the pages of Vogue Paris. An absolutely beautiful girl, made up to look much older, to sell clothes to adult women. Make sense? As a parent of a girl & a child dev specialist, [...]
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We all get annoyed when someone becomes a back-seat driver in our own car. “Slow down!” “Speed up!” “Why are you going this way???” Back-seat drivers can make us feel like bumbling fools or they can just simply drive us crazy. But how can the same type of dynamic play out in the parenting relationship? [...]
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We all know that Amy Chua’s book and WSJ piece has been receiving a great deal of attention lately. The publicity has been going nuts since last week– I was interviewed for Yahoo.com last week (twitter chat for yahoo today at noon; hatchtag #yshinechat) and this morning, I was on Fox News discussing it again. [...]
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I was interviewed for this yahoo.com article posted today about the opinion of one “Chinese mother” (her label) on the difference between Western parenting and Chinese parenting. How self esteem is really cultivated is certainly in question. “Western parents are concerned about their children’s psyches,” Chua wrote in her recent Wall Street Journal article. “Chinese [...]
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Dr. Robyn Silverman, Child and Teen Development Expert, was on The Tyra show fielding questions about controversial parenting topics like; Should you snoop on your child? Should you allow your underage teen to drink in the home? Should you allow your teen to have sex in your home? Here is a clip from the show. [...]
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It can be difficult to cope when it seems that our children are growing up too soon. Parents often have a love-hate relationship with much of the media when it comes to their children. Especially their daughters. On the one hand you have the hypersexualization of women and girls in music videos, magazines, internet games [...]
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I had the pleasure of being on Dr. Drew Pinsky‘s radio show the other day (April 29th) to talk about the Miley Cyrus issue and the impact on parents and tweens. For your convenience, I took out all the commercials and just left the actual discussion between Dr. Drew and me. I believe the interview [...]
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