At Healthy is the New Skinny this morning, my very short weekly column deals with encouraging teen girls to mentor and support their pre-teen little sisters — particularly because of the constellation of cultural and physiological pressures we see today.
A more detailed version of that can be found in this post: Biology Still Isn’t Destiny: Creating Safe Childhoods in an Age of Ever-Earlier Puberty.
Related: On Virginity and the Nonsensical Double Bind
See also:
Parental pride, parental anxiety: on ever-earlier adolescence and the ever-present double standard
I love how short and sweet your posts are at HITNS.