Raising Girls, a project of The Equipoise Fund, provides a forum in which parents, caregivers and educators can share research-based best practices for rearing healthy, confident, thriving girls.
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Check out this article from the Casper Star Tribune featuring words of wisdom from Dr. Meg Meeker and Raising Girls’ own Carrie Kirkpatrick! Thanks to writer Teresa Griswold for spotlighting this critical issue.
Posted Friday, May 4, 2012
Sexy Ponies and Tarted-Up Trolls? Teaching Toddlers Sexual Objectification »
In a 2010 study, Dr. Jennifer Harriger at Pepperdine University looked at how much girls aged 3-5 had internalized the thin ideal (the idea that beauty in females = thinness) and how they attributed stereotypes to others because of their weight (fat=lazy, stupid, has no friends while thin=nice, sweet, has friends). Click here to learn more about Dr. Harriger’s findings.
Posted Friday, May 4, 2012
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