As a young girl, I would always stuff my bra to see what I’d look like with bigger breasts. I was around 9 at the time and my lady lumps were nowhere in sight. Oh, but when 13 came around, I got real lucky; My breasts appeared out of nowhere. It was like I went […]
When I was a kid, I wasn’t allowed to have a full-length mirror in my room. My Jewish mother loathed hearing me complain about how fat I was and refused to invest in one. I never made the purchase for myself until I was a freshman in college—and even then my mom questioned whether or […]
I’ll never forget the vacation my family took when I was 7 years old. It was the summer before I entered second grade and we drove up to Vermont for a week of hiking, biking and staying up past our bedtimes. But the trip wasn’t so much fun for me. I had no energy to […]
Whenever anyone asks my mother what I was like as a child, she always responds by telling stories of her first attempts to put me in a dress as a toddler. “I would just finish dressing her and she would be looking like the cutest little princess,” she usually relays, “After I turned my back for […]
Parents are teachers, providing support and encouragement for their child’s learning activities at home as well as for those at school. In fact, we as parents are not only our children’s first educators but also their life-long ones. When our children begin participating in learning activities outside of home and family life, we have a […]
Newsflash. Work is terrible. It’s something that we all have to do, but no one particularly wants to do it. It’s a cruel trick in which you have to go to a place and do things that you would never normally do, for a nominal amount of money that is usually too little, and for […]
A new American Psychology Association study shows that while STEM is associated with masculinity cross-culturally, black women associate STEM with men less than white women do. The study mentions that African American women also study STEM majors more frequently than white women. The stereotypes women — as well as men, as well as teachers, professors, […]
Sometimes it feels as though winter will never end, and thinking about waiting what feels like forever for the flowers, warmth, and daylight to return can make a girl feel a little blue. I needed an old-school catharsis the other day, so I turned to Netflix. Every once in a while, we all need a […]
Every new home needs interior decorating that will help the family settle quickly. But regardless if you’re moving into a new home, or simply in desperate need to change this up, interior decorating is instrumental to give your home new life. So with all that said, here are our 4 interior decorating tips. 1. Choose […]
