Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Friendship, Power of Words, Resources, Schools on Oct 9th, 2009 5 Comments »
Does my bum look big in this?
I HATE MY THIGHS.
You look great–did you lose weight?
Fat talk. Many of us do it every day as we play the “compare and despair” game, trying to live up to an impossible stick-thin ideal of what we should look like and what it means to be feminine. [...]
Posted in Parents, Resources, Schools on Sep 14th, 2009 3 Comments »
In my book, The Butterfly Effect, I include a chapter on girls and learning. I believe that once girls reach high school, parents can feel ill equipped to help their daughters learn, hence I was keen to pass on the words of wisdom I had gathered during my years of teaching – and learning – [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Feminism, Magazines, Media, Parents, Power of Words, Resources, Sexualisation of children on Sep 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
This week has been filled with powerful conversations around teen girls and my book, The Butterfly Effect. I thought I would share three of the more interesting interviews with you.
Sunrise – Raising Teen Girls – 4/9/09: click on the image below to view the segment or go directly to the URL: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=15377569
Podcast – Breakfast radio with [...]
Posted in Enlighten Education, Feminism, Power of Words, Resources on Aug 29th, 2009 21 Comments »
This week my first book is being launched by Random House. The Butterfly Effect provides a positive new approach to raising happy, confident teen girls.
Advance Praise for The Butterfly Effect
Dannielle Miller is the teen girl whisperer.’ Fran Simpson, teacher and mother of a teen
Dannielle Miller’s book is a must-read for all parents of teenage girls. The [...]
Posted in Media, Parents, Resources, Sexualisation of children on Aug 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
With the globalisation of sexual imagery, girls are growing up in the shadow cast by a pornographic vision of sexuality. This important new book has been edited by Melinda Tankard Reist and features contributions by Clive Hamilton, Julie Gale, Noni Hazelhurst, Maggie Hamilton, Steve Biddulph and other leading Australian experts.
Advance reviews for this important new collection of [...]
Posted in Resources, Sport, Women and Careers on Aug 7th, 2009 2 Comments »
This week I want to share some really interesting websites that offer grants for young women. Are there young women in your life who might be able to access these?
The Layne Beachley Aim for the Stars Foundation was created to “inspire girls and women across Australia to dream and achieve”. What a fabulous slogan! [...]
Posted in Power of Words, Resources, Schools, Women and Careers on Jun 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
I was really interested in the findings of a study conducted by Janet Hyde, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of psychology, and Janet Mertz, a UW-Madison professor of oncology, on girls and mathematics. They analysed studies from around the world on mathematics performance along with gender inequality as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index. [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Parents, Power of Words, Resources on Apr 26th, 2009 5 Comments »
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 Early Onset Eating Disorder (EOED).
It was Dr Sloane Madden from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, who raised the alarm: “What we are seeing [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Resources, Schools on Apr 1st, 2009 4 Comments »
May 6th is No Diet Day. This event, which began in Britain in 1992 with an anti-diet campaign called Diet Breakers, is now an annual internationally celebrated day that encourages community awareness and discussion about healthy attitudes to food, and celebrates diverse body shapes.
I think it is a day well worth commemorating at your school [...]
Posted in Enlighten Education, Parents, Resources, Schools on Mar 24th, 2009 8 Comments »
I am a long-time fan of Associate Professor David Bennett, Head of the NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health.
We first met back in 2006. At the time, I was combining part-time work developing Enlighten Education with a senior role as an Education Officer responsible for developing enterprise education in Catholic Schools. I had [...]
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