The Washington Post is devoting some of their space to a group of teenage girls to blog about their experience in Africa. Here’s the intro:
What happens when 11 Washington area high school girls, the picture of health and privilege, travel 8,000 miles to South Africa to teach soccer to girls their own age, all [...]
Archives for June, 2007
Teen girls in South Africa teaching soccer
Daily Condom Commercial #8
The second out of three! See below for the previous one…and come back on Monday for the grand finale!
Daily Condom Commercial #7
This is the first in a series, folks, so come back tomorrow for the girl’s perspective!
On abstinence and sex education
Here is a question from a regular reader:
“What role do you think the choice of abstinence should play in sexuality education?”
Well, I think it’s critical. All teenagers must know, absolutely, that the choice to have sexual intercourse is first and foremost theirs to make about their own body. And making the decision to [...]
On Increasing Blog Traffic
I am generally trying to increase my blog traffic, and as part of that I am linking to Technorati. This has everything to do with their little bots climbing around my site. If you’re interested, you can click on the link and see my Technorati profile. Here’s that link:
Technorati Profile
Now there is [...]
What’s up with the Sk*rt This link?
You may have noticed the new Sk*rt This link that is now at the bottom of all of my blog posts. Sk*rt is a social networking site devoted to women. By clicking on this link, you have the option of recommending the blog post to Sk*rt readers. (Yes, you can do this [...]
Daily Condom Commerical #6
This one is, of course, French. It promotes condoms as being conducive to physical pleasure.
When girls lose their voice
There has been much discussion of girls’ loss of voice during the middle school years. Girls go from being forward and vocal about their opinions and their knowledge to being quite and shy, particularly around boys. The recommendations about what to do as a parent or educator in the face of a girl [...]
Discipline
Yesterday a father asked me about discipline. He was grappling with the realization that interfacing with his almost teenage son about sex education will be very different than previous interactions on other issues. Notably, this father came to the realization that talks about sex and related issues should not involve discipline. It [...]
Daily Condom Commercial #5
As an added bonus, this one has visual puns. How many can you find?
