Do You Like Your Body?
February 23, 2009
February 22-28 is National Eating Disorder Awareness week.
Look at yourself and appreciate the life you’ve been given. There is beauty in everyone, and I hope you see that health is a gift. If you can make the oath to yourself to be healthy, then you will influence yourself and others around you for life.
The most important thing you can do this week is compliment your friends. Set a goal for yourself and see if you can give three compliments a day. Love yourself and your body!
Everyone Deals with Tough Stuff.
July 1, 2008
I had a little aha moment yesterday. Maybe it was more of a ‘duh’ moment. It reminded me again of all the reasons I started a Web site and wrote a book for teen girls. I was talking to some teens yesterday and they were sharing experiences they had growing up and in high school. Read more
Resources in The Powder Box Secrets
June 9, 2008
Want to learn more about the topics discussed in The Powder Box Secrets? Here are all of the resources listed in each chapter. After exploring each site, let us know which ones were the most helpful or eye-opening to you and why.
http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/
The Environmental Working Group shares news about the safety of common beauty products.
www.edap.org
The National Eating Disorders Association is dedicated to expanding public understanding and prevention of eating disorders and promoting access to quality treatment for those affected.
www.breakthecycle.org
This site is dedicated to raising awareness about the cycle of domestic violence.
www.girlswithdreams.com
Read stories, find resources, and talk to other girls about dating and relationships.
www.loveisnotabuse.com
This site provides information about teen dating violence.
www.loveisrespect.org
The National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline offers support and information to help understand dating abuse.
www.ndvh.org/help/teen-help.html
The National Domestic Violence Hotline
www.safeyouth.org/scripts/teens/dating.asp
The National Youth Violence Prevention Center
www.seeitandstopit.org
This site is dedicated to stopping violence in relationships.
www.teenrelationships.org
This site for teens and by teens provides information about relationships.
www.uhavetheright.net
This site offers dating violence information.
www.womenslaw.org/teens.htm
This site includes general and legal information about teen dating violence.
GAY AND LESBIAN RESOURCES
Wendy L. Sheppard, MSW, a contributor to this chapter, is a professional life coach and therapist specializing in the lesbian community and women with eating disorders. She has been featured as a parenting expert on TLC’s series Surviving Motherhood. She lives with her son, her partner, and their dog in a suburb of Philadelphia. Ms. Sheppard can be contacted by e-mail at wlsheppard@verizon.net. She welcomes questions from parents and teenagers who are struggling with their sexuality.
www.AdvocatesForYouth.org
This site has a section dedicated to LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual/two-spirited, queer/questioning) youth as well as information for parents.
www.GayTeens.org
This site provides support and information for young people and their families, and for those who are unsure of their sexuality.
www.OutProud.org
This is the site of the National Coalition for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth.
www.PFLAG.org
This is the site for Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays with local chapters nationwide.
www.WeAreFamilyToo.net
Read and submit your stories here.
CHAPTER 3: BEST FRIENDS OR WORST ENEMIES?
www.cyberbullyhelp.com
This site provides resources about cyberbullying.
www.cyberbully.org
This site shares resources to promote safe use of the Internet.
www.cybertipline.com
This site handles leads from individuals reporting the sexual exploitation of children.
www.girlswithdreams.com
This site provides a forum for meeting new friends from all over the world.
www.ryanpatrickhalligan.org
This site is in memory of Ryan Patrick Halligan, a young man who lost his life because of bullying.
www.safeyouth.org
This site is a central source of information on violence prevention and intervention.
CHAPTER 4: FUNKY FAMILY STUFF
www.childhelpusa.org
This site is dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children. You can also call (800) 4-A-CHILD.
www.rainn.org
This site is the rape, abuse, and incest national network. You can also call (800) 656-HOPE.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
CHAPTER 5: DEALING WITH SCHOOL, NOW AND BEYOND
HOMESCHOOLING
www.nhen.org
The National Home School Education Network
LEARNING DISABILITIES
www.ldaamerica.org
Learning Disabilities Association of America is a national organization of parents, professionals, and individuals with learning disabilities that promotes advocacy, education, and research into the causes of learning disabilities.
www.ldonline.org
Learning Disabilities Online is a leading site on learning disabilities, learning disorders, and their differences.
www.ncld.org
The National Center for Learning Disabilities provides essential information to parents, professionals, and individuals with learning disabilities.
DROPPING OUT
www.cetweb.org
The Center for Employment Training is one of the country’s largest and most effective educational and employment training programs.
http://jobcorps.dol.gov/about.htm
Job Corps is a no-cost education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps people ages 16 to 24 get better jobs, make more money, and take control of their lives.
www.youthbuild.org
In YouthBuild USA programs, low-income people ages 16 to 24 work toward their GED or high school diploma, learn job skills and serve their communities by building affordable housing and transforming their own lives and roles in society.
www.4troubledteens.com/failing-school.html
This organization works with teens and their parents to find a solution to dropping out.
COLLEGE
www.campustours.com
This site compiles the virtual tours for campuses around the United States.
www.collegeboard.com
This site offers online SAT registration and other college information.
www.collegenet.com
This guide to colleges, universities, and graduate programs provides information on college admissions, links to academic resources, and online applications.
www.commonapp.org
This site leads you to the recommended admission form for 298 undergraduate programs at selective colleges and universities.
www.finaid.org
This site offers financial aid information about college.
www.princetonreview.com
This site explores schools and careers, prepares you for standardized tests and entrance exams, and researches scholarships and financial aid options and more.
FINDING YOUR STRENGTHS
www.accelerated-learning.net
Take a free quiz at this site to see which of Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences are most like you.
www.girlswithdreams.com
Need we say more? This amazing site is what we’re all about!
www.kolbe.com
Discover your natural abilities and instinctive talents with the online quiz at this site.
MONEY
www.richdadpoordad.com
This site founded by Robert T. Kiyosaki is a great resource about money.
CHAPTER 6: HANDLING THE TOUGH STUFF
DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE
www.afsp.org
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_teen.htm
This is a nonprofit resource with information about depression.
www.kuto.org
Kids under Twenty-One is a nonprofit agency helping kids deal with depression, anxiety and loneliness.
www.yellowribbon.org
The International Suicide Prevention Program
Suicide Hotline: (800) 273-TALK (8255)
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
www.al-anon.alateen.org
This site offers hope and help to families and friends of alcoholics.
www.checkyourself.com
This site allows you to check to see where you are with drugs and alcohol.
www.freevibe.com
Explore a teen’s approach to drugs, alcohol, and the medi
www.sadd.com
Students Against Drunk Driving
BODY IMAGE AND EATING DISORDERS
www.edap.org
This site is dedicated to expanding public understanding, preventing eating disorders and promoting access to quality treatment for those affected.
DATING VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE
www.childhelpusa.org
This site is dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children. You can also call (800) 4-A-CHILD.
www.preventchildabuse.org
Prevent Child Abuse America was established to build a nationwide commitment to preventing all forms of child abuse. You can also call (312) 663-3520.
www.rainn.org
This site is the rape, abuse, and incest national network. You can also call (800) 656-HOPE.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-SAFE (7233)
www.teenpregnancy.org
This nonprofit organization offers statistics on adolescent pregnancy, poll results, and analyses of factors affecting teenage sexual behavior.
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
National STD Hotline: (800) 227-8922
SELF-HARMING BEHAVIORS
www.selfinjury.com
Self.Abuse.Finally.Ends offers resources and information for self-injurers. You can also call (800) DONT-CUT (366-8288).
GRIEF AND LOSS
www.cancercare.org
This site offers professional support for people affected by cancer.
www.grievingchild.org
The Dougy Center for Grieving Children provides support in a safe place where children, teens and their families grieving a death can learn to cope.
www.kidskonnected.org
This site offers friendship, understanding, education, and support for children who have a parent with cancer or who have lost a parent to cancer.
Calendar
May 5, 2008
2010 Events
Please RSVP for our events on Facebook.
January 2010
2008-09 Past Events
July
28-1 Lewis and Clark Community College, “Just For Girls” workshop, visit www.lc.edu/c4k
September
24 Sperring Middle School, After school workshop, Lindbergh District
October
7 Seven Keys to Create Powerful and Connected Relationships with the Young People in Your Life, This event is for adults and teens. This is a St. Louis/IL Joint ESPW event in Shiloh, IL. To register, go to www.espw.org
23 Teen Night Just for Girls at the Middendorf-Kredell Branch Library, O’Fallon, MO. More information can be found at www.youranswerplace.org, or register at http://host5.evanced.info/stcharles/evanced/eventcalendar.asp
Interview with Club E http://www.clubenetwork.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=276&task=videodirectlink&id=200
November
6 Teen Night at the Glen Carbon, IL Library, 6:30-8:00 PM, http://www.glencarbonlibrary.org/, For more details follow http://www.glencarbonlibrary.org/Meeting%20Room%20Calendar.htm
24 1:00-4:00 PM, Girl Talk, St. Lukes Hospital, Institute for Health Education, An interactive FREE event for moms and daughters 11 and older, Carrie will be the keynote speaker talking about self esteem, peer pressure, and keeping girls safe, must register at www.stlukes-stl.com or 314-54….
August 2009
18 Radio Interview with K.L. McLoughlin , Secrets Girls Keep and Tips to Help Your Teen Daughter
September 2009
8 Teen Advisory Circle Meeting 3:45
16 Frances Howell North High School, Presentation
19 Crisis Aid-Run/Walk for Freedom, Register at http://www.crisisaid.org
Donate at http://www.firstgiving.com/girlswithdreamsica
22 Teen Advisory Circle Meeting 8PM
October 2009
2 Boost Your Business Online: Six Secrets to More customers and More Revenue Using Your Website, Social Media, and Video, Presented by Julie Hood, Michelle Nelson, and Carrie Silver-Stock for eWomen Network, St. Louis, Greenbriar Country Club, 11:30
6 Teen Advisory Circle Meeting 3:45
8 Blog Talk Radio, Family Focus Coach Line Brunet interviews Carrie Silver-Stock, 12:00 PM, listen to the recorded show here.
12 5:10 PM, “The Other Side of the News”, KXYL-FM, Abilene, TX, Mark Cope, host
13 10:40 AM Radio Interview with Mike Moore, host of “Let’s Talk” WMYN-AM, Greensboro, NC
15 5:00 PM Radio Interview with Dr. Liz Holifield, host of “411 Teen”, WFSU-FM, Tallahassee, FL
16 Girl Scouts St. Louis, Understanding Yourself and Others, 6-8:30 PM
22 5:00 PM Radio Interview with Denice Newton, host of “After Thoughts”
26 11:10 AM, Radio Interview with Phyllis Hall, host of “KXLO Live”, Gret Falls, MT
27 5:00 PM, WFSU-FM, Tallahassee, FL, “411 Teen”, hosted by Dr. Liz Holifield
November 2009
Do you want to schedule Carrie to speak to your group? Please contact Carrie at carrie@girlswithdreams.com
For media interviews, please contact Elaine Krackau Elaine Krackau, PR by the Book, LLC | elaine@prbythebook.com | 512-733-5145
About Us
March 4, 2008
A message from our founder, Carrie Silver-Stock:
I didn’t just want to start a Web site or a blog. I wanted to start a movement, a revolution, and a change in the world. A place where girls can be girls and empower one another to reach their dreams!
When I was a teenager, I looked like I had it all together. Underneath the surface, however, I was struggling with depression, an eating disorder, friends, boys, and a lot of the same stuff many girls continue to face today. After college, I continued to work with young people and began noticing patterns that never seemed to go away. I also noticed that it seems even more difficult to be a girl today! Then I started asking these questions: Why are are bright and beautiful girls putting themselves down? Why do so many girls lack confidence? Why are girls making choices they regret, and then keeping it to themselves? Why are so many girls obsessed with this “bad girl” culture? Why are so many girls bullying each other and pulling other girls down instead of building each other up?
Girls With Dreams, www.girlswithdreams.com, and The Secrets Girls Keep: What Girls Hide (& Why) and How to Break the Stress of Silence were created as responses to these questions. So, I’m glad you made it here because you have so much to share! More importantly, you get to write your own rules here. You can be completely yourself. You don’t have to worry about insults here because we don’t do that. Here, you can practice being confident and thinking for yourself. There is no secret too terrible, and we’ve always got your back! Our mission is simple: girls empower each other to make a positive impact in the world. Read more at www.girlswithdreams.com/category/dreams.
I hope you’ll jump right in and tell us about yourself! Tell us what you’d like to see on our site. If you like what we’re doing, consider joining our team as a blogger, artist, or model. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Check out www.youtube.com/girlswithdreams to hear more from our team!
Girls With Dreams is a proud member and Confidence Builder of the Confidence Coalition. The Confidence Coalition mobilizes the many organizations, companies and individuals that promote self-esteem and confidence among girls and women.
Part of the GWD Team
Why Parents Will Love the Body Scoop for Girls by Dr. Ashton
March 10, 2010
Every parent struggles to find the right words to talk about health, safety, sex, and body image with her daughter. I love Dr. Jennifer Ashton’s new book, The Body Scoop for Girls. Creating an atmosphere of trusted talk with our daughters is key, but so is giving them the right information they need to make good choices. Girls feel empowered when they can balance quality information about their bodies with talking with their parents or a trusted adult.
The Body Scoop for Girls is one of those must read book for parents and their daughters. Dr. Jennifer Ashton shares straight talk advice on important health topics for girls from puberty, periods, hormones, sex, body weight, mood disorders, and smoking, drinking, and drugs.
The Body Scoop for Girls is written in a voice that girls will relate to and appreciate. At the same time, parents will find it important to use as a basis for having conversations with their daughters. Parents might want to use some of the same examples Dr. Ashton uses or even get ideas for how to talk about tough subjects from Dr. Ashton.
Giving our daugthers information about their bodies is extremely important to them making safe, healthy choices for themselves. Every parent and daugther will thank Dr. Ashton for sharing the straight talk in The Body Scoop on some topics that aren’t always easy to talk about.
If you’d like to read a teen review of the Body Scoop, you can see what Stevie, one of our teen advisors liked. Make sure to get your copy own copy of The Body Scoop for Girls today!
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November 23, 2009
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“As media and commercial culture is putting increasing pressure on girls to conform to standards that can be very harmful to themselves and their relationships with others, Secrets Girls Keep gives teen-age girls down-to-earth, practical, heartfelt advice that will empower them to resist the pressure and take care of themselves and others in these hard to grow up times. Parents will thank Carrie Silver-Stock for giving them this book to give to and discuss with their daughters.”
Diane Levin, Ph.D.,
Professor of Education, Wheelock College,
Author of So Sexy So Soon
“The key to happiness is getting real and finding a way to be okay with who we are…our authentic selves. How great would it be to learn how to tap into this honest and open place as a teenager? When girls follow Carrie’s guidelines for shedding their secrets and taking charge of their lives, the world has no choice but to be a better place!”
Deborah Reber,
Teen advocate, speaker, and author
“Secrets Girls Keep is compelling in its honesty, openness, and just plain good sense. Written for teenage girls, who face pressures that are almost impossible to imagine, it models getting beneath the silence and shame that all too often accompany life problems (e.g., loss, sex, abuse, eating problems, mood disorder) and actively engages them in self-exploration and disclosure. A vitally important book.”
Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D.,
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley;
author of The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures
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November 3, 2009
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“As media and commercial culture is putting increasing pressure on girls to conform to standards that can be very harmful to themselves and their relationships with others, Secrets Girls Keep gives teen-age girls down-to-earth, practical, heartfelt advice that will empower them to resist the pressure and take care of themselves and others in these hard to grow up times. Parents will thank Carrie Silver-Stock for giving them this book to give to and discuss with their daughters.”
Diane Levin, Ph.D.,
Professor of Education, Wheelock College,
Author of So Sexy So Soon
“The key to happiness is getting real and finding a way to be okay with who we are…our authentic selves. How great would it be to learn how to tap into this honest and open place as a teenager? When girls follow Carrie’s guidelines for shedding their secrets and taking charge of their lives, the world has no choice but to be a better place!”
Deborah Reber,
Teen advocate, speaker, and author
“Secrets Girls Keep is compelling in its honesty, openness, and just plain good sense. Written for teenage girls, who face pressures that are almost impossible to imagine, it models getting beneath the silence and shame that all too often accompany life problems (e.g., loss, sex, abuse, eating problems, mood disorder) and actively engages them in self-exploration and disclosure. A vitally important book.”
Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D.,
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley;
author of The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures
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November 3, 2009
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“As media and commercial culture is putting increasing pressure on girls to conform to standards that can be very harmful to themselves and their relationships with others, Secrets Girls Keep gives teen-age girls down-to-earth, practical, heartfelt advice that will empower them to resist the pressure and take care of themselves and others in these hard to grow up times. Parents will thank Carrie Silver-Stock for giving them this book to give to and discuss with their daughters.”
Diane Levin, Ph.D.,
Professor of Education, Wheelock College,
Author of So Sexy So Soon
“The key to happiness is getting real and finding a way to be okay with who we are…our authentic selves. How great would it be to learn how to tap into this honest and open place as a teenager? When girls follow Carrie’s guidelines for shedding their secrets and taking charge of their lives, the world has no choice but to be a better place!”
Deborah Reber,
Teen advocate, speaker, and author
“Secrets Girls Keep is compelling in its honesty, openness, and just plain good sense. Written for teenage girls, who face pressures that are almost impossible to imagine, it models getting beneath the silence and shame that all too often accompany life problems (e.g., loss, sex, abuse, eating problems, mood disorder) and actively engages them in self-exploration and disclosure. A vitally important book.”
Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D.,
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley;
author of The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures
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November 3, 2009
Secrets Girls Keep: What Girls Hide (& Why) and How to Break the Stress of Silence (HCI) by Carrie Silver-Stock is finally here!
Carrie and her supporters want to thank you for your purchase with some very special FREEBIES! Click here to Purchase and get your FREE Stuff! This offer is only good TODAY, Tuesday November 3!
“As media and commercial culture is putting increasing pressure on girls to conform to standards that can be very harmful to themselves and their relationships with others, Secrets Girls Keep gives teen-age girls down-to-earth, practical, heartfelt advice that will empower them to resist the pressure and take care of themselves and others in these hard to grow up times. Parents will thank Carrie Silver-Stock for giving them this book to give to and discuss with their daughters.”
Diane Levin, Ph.D.,
Professor of Education, Wheelock College,
Author of So Sexy So Soon
“The key to happiness is getting real and finding a way to be okay with who we are…our authentic selves. How great would it be to learn how to tap into this honest and open place as a teenager? When girls follow Carrie’s guidelines for shedding their secrets and taking charge of their lives, the world has no choice but to be a better place!”
Deborah Reber,
Teen advocate, speaker, and author
“Secrets Girls Keep is compelling in its honesty, openness, and just plain good sense. Written for teenage girls, who face pressures that are almost impossible to imagine, it models getting beneath the silence and shame that all too often accompany life problems (e.g., loss, sex, abuse, eating problems, mood disorder) and actively engages them in self-exploration and disclosure. A vitally important book.”
Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D.,
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley;
author of The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures
