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Cover Girls: How the Media Influences Teen Self-Image
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
You don’t have to look very far to see image after image of flawless, statuesque, unblemished, and usually very skinny women wearing the hottest trends in clothes, shoes and hair accessories. They’re plastered all over ...
Gearing Your Teen For Success
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
They really do grow up fast! It seems like only yesterday that your baby girl’s world revolved in a small sphere. She depended on you for even for the simplest things, and you lovingly catered ...
Developing Strong Bonds between Your Children
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
It can be pretty complicated once a new baby becomes a part of the family. Often, the second child arrives when the first is still a toddler, who suddenly has to share your attention for ...
What is Your Child’s Personality Type?
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
Child development experts are still locked in a debate over nature versus nurture. It is the longstanding argument over whether a person’s innate qualities ("nature") or her personal experiences ("nurture") carry more importance in determining ...
Parenting Your Toddler
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
Parenting is not for the faint of heart—especially if we’re talking about parenting toddlers! At this stage, your child starts to show her unique personality and to develop interests and preferences. It may be a ...
Are We Raising Spoiled Children?
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
As parents, we want the best for our children. We attend to their needs, and every now and then we indulge their wants. Be careful though—indulging too much can spoil kids.
You may feel that ...
The Mom Anxiety Factor: How to Cope
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
In a world filled to the brim with information, so much has already been written and said about parenting. If you immerse yourself in the books, the interviews, the tips (and the unsolicited advice from ...
Parenting A Princess
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
When a daughter is born, it feels like the most precious gift you can imagine has just been given to you. Her delicate little hands, her tiny arms and legs, her scrunched up face looking ...
Hair Hazards
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
If you have a baby girl, then I am sure that you are convinced that your mission in life is to make her the fairest of them all. It is so hard to resist all ...
Fashion Me: Summer 2010’s Hottest Trends
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
In the world of fashion, a new season does not only mean a change in the environment. It’s more importantly a change of trends, colors, textiles, textures—a whole new template by which to dress the ...
Hair, There, Everywhere: Hair Accessories Then and Now
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
A popular reality show quips, "In fashion, one day you’re in, the next day you’re out." Indeed, fashion can be very tricky. Trends shift quickly and without warning. And we’re not just talking about clothes ...
Mommy "Me" Time: Top 5 Tips to De-stress
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
"A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." –Tenneva Jordan
It’s true that once you enter motherhood, you ...
Baby's First Haircut
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
As your precious baby grows, so does her hair. Her once barely-there wispy hair will start getting longer and thicker and may even take a different color! This is the day you have long been ...
Getting Over Yourself: An Itsy Bitsy Guide for Teenagers
By Rachelle Salinger · 13 years ago
Teenagers. Where do I even start? While some people apparently did not get the memo that it’s just a phase and supposedly ends after high school, most of us have gone through the joys, tears, ...
Hair Ye, Hair Ye: Hair Care Tips for Your Baby
By Rachelle Murakami · 14 years ago
It has been said that the moment a child is born, a mother is also born. A woman may exist for many years, but she only becomes a mother once she gives birth to her ...