Finding Her Brave
Shelley and I are at the pool watching our toddler girls play in the shallow water. My two-year-old scrambles quickly up the stairs to the small water slide and whooshes …
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This Teen Went Medieval – Old School Combat Gets Teen New Skills
Our InspireHer articles explore interesting, empowering, and unique ways that women and girls are living and loving their lives. As I was thinking about interesting women to highlight, my niece …
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Growth Mindset: Using Children’s Literature to Raise Gritty Girls
I have a confession to make. I have a fixed mindset. I first heard about Carol Dweck’s fixed mindset theory and its influence on growth when I was in graduate …
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Help Your Girls Foster Happiness
Happy is a habit, and science backs five ways to put it into practice Today was the kind of cold and rainy spring day when we all wish the weather …
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Encouraging girls to explore STEM fields
With the journey to Mars under design and self-driving cars taking to the roads, science is changing our world at a lightning pace. Recent years have seen an increasing focus …
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Do feminists let their daughters wear makeup?
She watches me intently as I moisturize, brush powder over my t-zone, and swipe my lashes with mascara. For a moment, I feel guilty about the example I am setting. …
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InspireHer: Megan Campbell is the Renaissance Woman
She sews. She races Half Ironmans. She is raising three girls. And she can teach us a lot about creativity, making time for our health and wellness, and keeping our …
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Rejected as a model, and turned out okay
It’s funny how memory works. I’m not sure that everyone knows what a “lookbook” is, but looking back on my experiences exploring beauty as a teenager, it’s the first word …
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On nourishing my daughters (and myself)
It’s the summer of 1986. The massive expanse of our blacktop driveway traps the Kentucky heat, making it at least a thousand degrees hotter on the surface than any other …
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Them, too?: Talking about #metoo with our girls
In October 2017, women spontaneously joined a grassroots movement to post #metoo to their social media accounts, identifying that they are victims of sexual harassment or assault. The movement was …
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