“Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it’s badly translated, hard to figure out.” - Hugh Laurie (photo: unknown until you tell me)

“ To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of sel...

From my point of view, I see nothing but beauty. I see amazement and wonder. I see happiness. My daughter is a constant source of inspiration and joy. She rocked my world with a soft and sweet cry at birth, and continues to do so everyday with her smil...

Last week I had the chance to interview Shannon Eis from Time to Play Magazine about the top gifts this holiday season for Girls! I want to thank Shannon for her willingness to share her thoughts with you and hope that you will find this as informative as I.

There’s a Gardasil controversy? There may be some wacky chatter between walleyed politicians. There may be concerns the Mirada Cosgrove is ushering in a new era of free love. There may be widespread conviction that our governmental institutions are staffed by overpaid, underworked, slacking remora. But there is no Gardasil controversy. After human ...

For two-thirds of my offspring, it’s the first day of school, which has me ready to write my “How I spent my summer vacation” essay. I had the great good fortune to be able to take another extended vacation with my family this year, as I have ever year since ...

One of my colleagues works exclusively with teens and is noting an increase in oral sex among teens. It is interesting because the teens report being virgins and are adamant that they aren't having sex. According to a recent study, researchers in California found that oral sex is the ...

Female adolescence through the eyes of teenage girls for a teenage-girl audience. This empowering volume introduces the reader to an insider’s view of teenage girlhood. Through their participation in The Girl Project-created in 2007 by Kate Engelbrecht to explore the personal realities of modern female adolescence-teenage girls contributed intimate, heartwarming, ...

On behalf of Shadow Distribution, you and a guest are invited to a screening of THE KIDS GROW UP, the new documentary from New York filmmaker Doug Block (51 BIRCH STREET). The tender and funny coming of age story of both a daughter and her father, THE KIDS GROW UP ...