While social media use has many positives, research shows it can also negatively impact girls’ confidence, self-esteem, and body image. As parents, it’s important to know the risks and best practices of social media engagement.
When you’re raising a daughter, hearing this comment for the first time can stop you in your tracks. During puberty, our daughters are particularly vulnerable to body image concerns. Their bodies are changing and expanding into the shapes they’ll inhabit as adult women.
As our kids develop into adolescents, they’re experiencing physical, biological, social, emotional, and mental changes. A family can experience this as if a teen is now on an emotional rollercoaster.
Iron is a critical nutrient for many reasons, one of which is that it’s part of the hemoglobin in blood which carries oxygen to all of our cells. When iron is in short supply, less oxygen is available for energy production which can lead to fatigue, among other symptoms.
I can still remember shaving my legs for the first time. I was 12, at summer camp and it was a group activity. We all laid towels down on the floor, passed around a can of ‘old spice’ shaving cream one of us had snatched from our father’s cabinet, and carefully glided our disposable razors up our legs.
