All Blog Posts Tagged 'girls' (11)

Remember to Dream Big! Only when we dare to go outside the box, further than we ever thought possible, that is when we see how far we can actually go! - YC Continue

I was in the waiting area at H&R Block the other day waiting to get my taxes done. There was a Seventeen Magazine lying on a chair and I picked it up and started flipping through it. The one thing that grabbed my attention was a quiz called What Draws You In? This is geared towards girls fighting within their “crew” or clique. Two members of the group will be in a fight. There are other bystanders who are left wondering what happened in the first place for a fight to erupt. This quiz has th… Continue

In the 1990’s, I was a fan of the show Beverly Hills 90210. I watched it in college and during most of the decade. So, when a new 90210 came this season to the CW, I watched some of it as it had some of the old characters come back like Brenda and Kelly. The premise for this new show is about a family from Kansas who come to Beverly Hills to move in with their mother/grandmother who is an actress and getting older needing help from her son and his family. They have a adopted son and daughter who… Continue

I am finally sitting down to blog again after flying across country last week and getting everything back in order again. While I was away, I managed to pick up the book Escape by Carolyn Jessop. Mrs. Jessop is a former member of the FLDS which is the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints which is a strict belief system. One thing I do not do is try and give others a hard time when it comes to their religion. We all have our beliefs, grew up in different cultures and are entitled to these f… Continue

Summer Secret is the first book in the wonderful Christian fiction Sonshine Girls series, which is geared to tweeners and young teens. Issues that are raised include friendship, bullying, forgiveness, Christianity, cliques and peer pressure. There are four main characters that make up the Sonshine Girls. As I read, I could closely identify with Kristin and Charli. The author has done a fantastic job of capturing the moodiness and general camaraderie that girls often demonstrate. In the ba… Continue

I just finished an interesting book called The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) by Dr. Barabra Becker Holstein. It was a delightful little book about a girl who keeps a diary where she writes the truth, while leaving a fake diary around for her parents to find. She’s confident and insecure, a child and a young woman, practical and unreasonable—in short, everything that most girls are when they are on the cusp of adolescence. While the book is short, there is lot’s to generate… Continue

Category: Contemporary Age Recommendation: Grades 6+ Release Date: 1/1/08 Publisher: The Enchanted Self Press Reviewed by: Marta Morrison Rating: 5 Stars This is a very short little book that delivers a big punch. It is written in the form of a diary. The writer is a 12-year-old girl in an era before the big technology boom. There are no cell phones or computers. It reminded me of when I grew up. But the questions and the observations that "the girl" writes about are just as timely today. Su… Continue

BY LAURIE LAWLESS Hour Staff Writer As a young girl, does your life seem complicated? As a parent, does your daughter and her adolescent issues seem confusing and incomprehencible? Well wonder no more, because Norwalk native, Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein has written a new book to help struggling pre-teens and their non-understanding parents. "The Truth (I'm a girl, I'm smart, and I know everything)," is a fiction diary written by Holstein through the eyes of an 8- to 10-year-old girl. "I beca… Continue

Little girls provide distinctive perspectives July 24, 2008 - Frank Rosci, Jewish Exponent Feature Experts confirm what the majority of people know: Truth comes in a number of forms and reveals itself in myriad ways, and that it's often relative, depending on the needs and expectations of the seeker. Now, Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, based in Long Branch, N.J., and a nationally known positive psychologist -- an officially recognized branch of psychology that centers on what's right with people… Continue

A very slim, diary-like book, The Truth (I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know Everything) is the sort of book that appeals to girls and grown women alike. It is sweet and somewhat sadly nostalgic. Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein lays out this story in the form of a young girl’s diary, with all the high emotions, fears and joys of that time of life. It brings us back to remembering small happinesses, allowing them to make us glow - instead of steeping the all-importance of bills, chores and work. This is… Continue

I had an opportunity to read The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein. This is a journal of a 10 year old girl, her parents fight about silly things, and she’s in love with a boy in her class. We go through a year and a half with this girl, through a school year, a summer and right before her family’s move two towns away. She finds out her mom is pregnant, she may not “love” the boy as much as she originally thought, and her friend knows more about g… Continue