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Weightlifting Girls Say The Darndest Things…
For those weightlifting ladies…A video from Catalyst Athletics highlighting all the awesome things weightlifting girls say… My personal favorite line “you probably would have made that if you had a pink shirt on…” Shit Weightlifting Girls Say…
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Encouraging Young Girls to Be Themselves
Encouraging Young Girls to Be Themselves and that It’s OK If you don’t already know this by reading my blog regularly, I love my kids. They bring me such joy and clear perspective on all things in life and for the most part, they just think I’m the cat’s meow. I am preparing myself for…
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Is Your Daughter’s Wish To Be Thinner?
What Do You Do When Your 10-Year-Old Girl Says She’s Fat? According to MissRepresentation, 80% of 10-year-old girls say they have been on a diet, and “the number one magic wish for girls 11-17 is to be thinner.” Now, personally, I’m pretty sure I didn’t figure out that I was fat and unlovable until I was around…
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Getting sweaty is not feminine and other myths
What can we do as parents and mentors to encourage and support young girls to embrace physical fitness? I don’t know about you all, but I know for a fact that women do sweat! Feminine, girly, frilly women – they do. I have seen women in the gym – leaving sweat angels all over the…
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Girls, You are Full of Awesome!
Waking Up Full of Awesome Holy Smokes do I love this! There was a time when you were five years old, and you woke up full of awesome. You knew you were awesome. You loved yourself. You thought you were beautiful, even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers. You…
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Going Light on the Lady
I woke up with a sore throat so when I woke up this morning, I had some hot lemon tea so I could be ready for a workout. And today’s workout was all kinds of suck – as my fellow athlete Jon likes to say. It was one of the Girls of CrossFit – Nancy.…
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Girl Scout Walk Together
Today I am heading to the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve for a Girl Scout Walk Together with Hannah Bea today for a 3 mile nature hike. Its a crisp fall day and anyone that knows about No VA knows its one of the most beautiful times of the year for this area — with the…
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The End of the Best Friend
The End of the Best Friend – NYTimes.com. A Best Friend? You Must Be Kidding But increasingly, some educators and other professionals who work with children are asking a question that might surprise their parents: Should a child really have a best friend? Most children naturally seek close friends. In a survey of nearly 3,000…
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Teaching Girls Programming
Here’s a pic of Hannah and her partner working on a small basic training module on Sunday. I wrote about it last week: Teaching Kids Programming Event. Although I think Hannah was a bit younger than the ideal age to introduce some of the concepts, it did spark some overall interest in programming. One the…
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SMALL BASIC – TEACHING KIDS PROGRAMMING
Join us July 11th for an event that will transform the lives of 20 young girls. Programming? For girls? ….YES! Programming has evolved and now more than ever girls have the opportunity in a world they’ve only known through technology to shape and mould the future of our society. So many young women have already…