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    Archive for June, 2011

    • Fear-Based Fitness: Exercise Should Be About More Than Weight Loss

      By Fiona Lowenstein | June 27th, 2011 | 0 comments

      Rising high school senior Fiona Lowenstein asks why fitness always seems to be about weight loss for women and girls.

      Tags: exercise, fitness, nysc, weight
      Posted in Blogs, Rachel's Blog | No Comments »

    • Fiona’s Junior Year Survival Guide

      By Fiona Lowenstein | June 20th, 2011 | 0 comments

      So-done-with-junior-year guest blogger Fiona Lowenstein serves up her guide to the junior year jungle.

      Tags: advice, junior year, SATs, stress
      Posted in Blogs, Rachel's Blog | No Comments »

    • 10 Reasons Why Prom is Better & Worse Than Ever Before

      By Fiona Lowenstein | June 14th, 2011 | 0 comments

      Guest blogger and high school junior Fiona Lowenstein’s got the good news and bad news about prom in 2011.

      Tags: boys, Curse of the Good Girl, Education, Fiona's blog, prom
      Posted in Blogs, Rachel's Blog | No Comments »

    • Guest Blog: A Mother’s Battle to Get Her Daughter Off Formspring

      By dev | June 9th, 2011 | 11 comments

      A woman shares her struggle and strategies to get her daughter off the destructive website Formspring.

      Posted in Blogs, Rachel's Blog | 11 Comments »

    • Bimbo or Overachiever? Running for Office as a Girl

      By Fiona Lowenstein | June 6th, 2011 | 11 comments

      Running for high school office, writes Fiona, is “like standing up in a big room full of people who love to judge other people, and saying, “I think I’m really smart and great and funny.’”

      Tags: Curse of the Good Girl, Education, Fiona's blog, politics
      Posted in Blogs, Rachel's Blog | 11 Comments »

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