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June 23, 2008

High School (Musical) for Toddlers?

Parents Fret as Even Toddlers Love ‘High School’  This article from the NY Times via the AP.  Apparently little girls (3&4 year olds) are obsessed with Disney’s High School Musical.  If the princesses weren’t bad enough (and you know my opinion on princesses) then Disney has brought its pop confection about high school down to a much younger level.  I suppose on the surface, High School Musical may seem like harmless fun – and less loaded with gender issues, than say, The Little Mermaid or Snow White, but do you really want your 3 year old to be thinking about coolest clothes, crushes and other high school things?  I certainly don’t.  The signing I am fine with.  But I definitely don’t want to have to deal with crushes, cliques or the like at this age.

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June 18, 2008

Dominique Morefield - GirlMogul of the Day

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Young Dominique Morefield of Terre Haute Indiana gave chase to a man who robbed her lemonade stand of $17.00.  See the story here on MSNBC.com.  We salute you Dominique for learning about entrepreneurship and defending your revenues.  Just be careful! 

 

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June 17, 2008

Quote of the Day - How does a Garden Grow

"Just as you would not neglect the seeds that you planted with the hope that you will bear vegetables, fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming..." Jean Houston

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June 16, 2008

Tips on gardening with kids:

 

Kids take to the garden in different ways based on their age, and sometimes even their gender.  My three-old loves to play with the hose and can’t tell when a plant has enough water.  My one and half year old just likes to put her hands in mud.

 

Here are some tips, by age for getting the most out of gardening with your kids.

 

Preschoolers, Ages 3-4: Don’t expect to accomplish much in the way of serious gardening.  Instead focus on enjoying the garden.  Move mulch, look for frogs, water.  Even pull up a few weeds.  Try to plant some seeds in a small area or pot that is exclusively their own.  We’re growing pickles – so we’ll go from the raw cucumbers through the pickling stage.

 

Don’t forget to keep a watchful eye at this stage so nothing wrong goes in the mouth (tempting looking berries.)  Be warned pre-schoolers ask a lot of questions, so be ready to do some explaining – or head to the library for the answers

 

Kindergartners, Age 5: This is the time to create special spaces in the garden – tree houses, forts, secret gardens, even an out of the way bench will all serve to stimulate imagination and dramatic play.
 
At this age you can work on planting a more substantial garden with your little one – don’t be overly concerned with the results, just enjoy the process.


Elementary Schoolers, Ages 6-7:    Improving reading and math skills will add to the gardening fun.  Make plant markers, read seed packets, pore over catalogs, and pay for nursery plants. And yet they’ll still be wide-eyed and open to nature's mysteries. Soil, holes, and water hold endless fascination, as do bugs. 


Kindergarteners

But for children this age, the "doing" is still more important than the end result.

Middle Schoolers, Ages 8-9: The emphasis shifts from doing to doing well. Now is the time to work out a garden design on graph paper, thinking about garden design principles.  Or plan out a vegetable garden taking into account all of the varied needs of the different crops. They can translate that drawing to a real garden. 

Ability to use tools, supervised, of course, also increases, so consider some easy building projects like a trellis or fence.  Also, don’t forget growing competitions held by the 4-H or other organizations.

Middle Schoolers, Ages 10-11: Now gardening celebrates its ability to cross several disciplines with ease to speak to your children's many interests. Garden is science, math, art, and still fun. Your youngsters can organize a class project to create a small garden at the local nursing home — and gain the support of businesses and parent volunteers. They can build garden structures and community. T

Tweens: Not quite teenagers, yet, but gardening is likely to lose out to a host of toher “cooler” activities, unless you make gardening great.  Consider a more involved project or perhaps growing a garden into a small business – perhaps they can focus on oraginc heirloom tomatoes and sell them to a restaurant or at a garden stand.  Or grow lavender for a sachet and scent business – use the lavender to create sachets, soaps and scents and find an outlet to sell them – your girls will keep connected to the garden, learn the fndaamentals of planning, follow through and business while being crafty – plus you can promise they can spend the money they earn at the mall.

 

Also, don’t forget to encourage the gardent to table connection. For any future chef du jours out there, the movement to have more of ffod from organic, local sources is growing and very hip.  Encourage them to grow food to eat and design recipies around the garden or vice versa.   Combining gardening with a hip new trend might just assure their life long love of nature.

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June 13, 2008

Quote of the Day - A Garden Analogy

"Just as you would not neglect the seeds that you planted with the hope that you will bear vegetables, fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming..." Jean Houston

 

 

Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time, one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide.

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Rampant Sexism in the Media or Just Plain Dislike

There has been a groundswell feeling that Senator Clinton suffered an unusually high level of media based sexism while running her campaign.  A few women's group and a grass roots campaign of women are calling on the media to review their treatment and admit and correct any mistakes.   See the NY Times Article.

I am not a big watcher of cable news or regular news - I heard most of the comments long aster they happened - Chris Matherws calling Sen. Clinton a she devil. Tucker Carlson saying he felt he needed to cross his legs every time he saw her.  Now some may argue that it's not women in general that brought about these comments, but the specific person.

 Fine. And while most of us will never be subjected to level of media scrunity that faces a presidential candidate it pays to remember while no one is telling you to go home and iron shirts, that there lots of other, little ways that shape up to sexism - it may be someone else deciding you don't want the traveling job, it may be that someone (man) doing the same job gets paid more than you do because he has a family to support...it may be laughing at what other's say and not getting mad about it.

So just remember no matter how far we've come ladies and girls, we're not all the way there.   Don't let anyone count you out.

 

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June 10, 2008

Nerd Girls

Check out this Newsweek article on Nerd Girls.  It's about how girls are embracing the term ggek and letting their love of science and technology show.   This article features a group of young wmen at Tufts who are building a solar car.   It also provides a social comment on how geekdom is changing and how the STEM (Science Technology, Engineerging & Math) are changing as well.   It lists out some great resources for getting girls interested in math and science - TechBridge and MAGIC - More Active Girls In Computing.

 So check out the nerdettes and don't forget - get you own GirlMogul Computer Geek T-shirt right here.

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Rich Women vs. Rich Men

I came across Fortune's Richest list online.  One section was "Richest Billionaires under 35"  There were maybe 20 names on the list - two were women and the rest men.  For the women, one was listed as being a fashionista and loved to attend fashion shows.  The other was heralded with the comment "Beware gold diggers - she's already married."  For all the men, the snapshit listed the details of their wealth, their accomplishments and what they were doing - serious stuff.  Now - there is a difference - several of the men were self-made millionaires.  The others on the list, including the two women, inherited their wealth - and that does account for a difference in the list of activities - self made millionaires keep working.  Those that inherit wealth seem to shop, and get married...But surely these women must do something else worth mentioning - even the German prince who raced cars was taken more seriously - he races with a "team",then these two women.   I am sure several of the male billionaires have shopping passions or are already married and thefore - unavailable.  But there was no mention of this trivial information in their bios. 

The media still seems intent on trivalizing the accomplishments of men over women...women who control the wealth of small nations perceived as shoppers and housewives, when in realityt they wield a lot of influcence and we should give them their due - as billionaireness...

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June 09, 2008

Quote of the Day - Optimism

"You should promote the most positive, but the most genuine spin on things...people will just dig you for your energy."  - Lucy Lawless.

I couldn't resist a quote from Xena, Warrior Princess, cause who's cooler than that.  Maybe Wonder Women.   Or Buffy... You get the idea.  Anyway - this post isn't about GirlPower heroes - we'll save that for next time, but it's about optimism, and having a positive mental attitude.   You don't have to be a Pollyanna but things are usually not as bad as they seem, and if they are, a little looking on the bright side will help you get through.

It's true - people with positive energy attract good things to them - other people with positive energy, great possibilities and other great things.  Resolve to be positive - try for a day. I'm going to - and I'll let you know how it goes.

 

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June 06, 2008

Trivia Question of the Day

Test your smarts -see if you know the answer to this question:

 What region, not part of a country, is adminstered by way of a treaty with 42 signature countries?

Post your answer in a comment.


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June 05, 2008

Quote of the Day

"Be adventurous. Try a lot of different things.  Who cares if it doesn't work out?  It's only paper!"  Mary Engelbreit

 A bit of encouragement for all those frustrated artists and writers out there - get out there and draw, write and think - it's only paper and no one has to see it or read it - though you may desparately hope they do someday.  But for today, just pick up the pen and the paper and go for it.  I draw all the time -- and I am terrible at it.   But sometimes, it's not half bad (meaning it's recognizable) and a feel a small little burst of pride - I did it, by myself, without having to wait on anyone else - how great is that.  So this summer, promise yourself you'll be more creative - and see where it leads you.

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Future Leader of the Free World

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We know one for sure, it won't be a woman.  But that's ok, because this year the presidental race offers choice, excitement and diversity.  But you might want to start prepping your GirlMogul for her generation's run. Feel free to encourage her ambitions with one of our GirlMogul Future Leader of the Free World shirts -- including the GirlMogul character teees.

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June 04, 2008

Answer to Our Trivia question

We had a correct answer - poster Jeff56chevy correctly answered the peninsula of Athos Greece.  With rules set by local Christioan monasteries, the whole penisula is off limits to females.  This practice goes back a thousand years and excludes even female animals!

 

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June 02, 2008

Trivia Question of the Day

Ok all you smarty pants - here's a trivia question for the day:

 

On which European pennisula are no woment permitted?

 

Hmm - post your answers here - I'll put the correct answer up tomorrow and we'll celebrate the winners.

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