What price perfection?
This month, alarming research was published showing that eating disorders now plague very young children. The study’s findings included a child only 5 years of age who was hospitalised with…
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“She’s just a cute Tween…but she grows up to be a curvy, cool Teen!”
Unlike most little girl’s dolls, which are designed to represent older teenagers or women, Mattel’s “My Scene, Growing Up Glam” doll openly set out to depict a tween, a girl…
Enlighten Education on 60 Minutes
Thank you to everyone who has responded so favourably to the feature story 60 Minutes ran on our work and the important issue of the sexualisation of our children. For…
The sublime and the ridiculous.
Indigo 4 Girls – an alternative voice. I first heard from Beverley Park and the group of “Power Gals” behind new independent teen girl magazine “Indigo 4 Girls” after Enlighten…
Learning to fail
“I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”Oprah Winfrey. How many of us can honestly say we enjoy the ride even when it ends…