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I am a recovering rat racer.
When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.
We have to teach girls communication skills.
Self-knowledge is the foundation of real success.
Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.
Ours is not a culture that cares much for the work of care.
Prom drops girls squarely into the beauty spending pipeline.
Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.
There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.
Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.
It never hurts to tell your teen they matter more than their looks.
Being jealous of a friend doesn't mean you hate her or wish her ill.
Jealousy is unavoidable - it's part of the price we pay for intimacy.
Instagram rocks. I love it, and so do the youth I work with and study.
Knowing that your parents are okay makes you feel secure in the world.
As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.
Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.
There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.
To defer to someone else's definition of a life well-lived is a Faustian bargain.
Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.
Real body satisfaction starts when you learn to see yourself for more than your weight.
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.
Girls who use jokes to be nasty are often hiding other feelings they are struggling to express.
The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.
When your child believes you really respect what he's feeling, he'll be much more likely to trust you.
Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.
Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.
Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.
Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.
When you're motivated by external rewards, it's often because you're trying to accomplish goals you didn't create yourself.
You can give them the opportunity to thrive, but when it comes to finding happiness or success, kids are really on their own.
Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.
Prom culture is now painstakingly documented on sites such as Instagram and Facebook, exacerbating the angst of the uninvited.
We learn best when we're intrinsically motivated - that is, when we try something new for the sheer enjoyment of the experience.
Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.
In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.
My experience is that aggression is a universal trait in human beings - girls feel it in any sort of environment, same-sex or co-ed.
I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.
Just like people date and break up, friends break up, too. 'Best friends forever' rarely ever happens; it's just that no one talks about it.
Isn't prom just a fun dance that hardworking students deserve? Sure, but it's also an event where girls internalize damaging cultural messages.
Parents of all girls must simultaneously explain overt and covert sexism, name it whenever they see it, and teach their daughters to do the same.
Girls must understand not only their moral obligation but their power to be allies to each other at parties and other potentially unsafe spaces for girls.
Classroom discussion is where you learn how to debate an idea and stick with an opinion, even when others don't agree - and not take it personally, either.
To teach their children how to show themselves grace in the face of a challenge, I coach parents to model self-compassion in the face of everyday setbacks.
If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves - and may try to emulate them.
Intrinsic motivation is one of learning's most precious resources. It bolsters us to stick out the tough moments of a challenge and pursue what we love to do.
Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.
When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.
Most of us are destined to be unhappy if we can't accept that we will have moments - or a waist size - that don't match our perfect vision of how things should be.
Sometimes true girl power means accepting that we are actually vulnerable and even powerless - then figuring out how to adapt and have our needs met in other ways.