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Supporting girls with self esteem and positive body image - what works best?

Posted in Body Image, Enlighten Education, Parents, Resources, Schools, Transition to High School on Apr 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »

A number of innovative schools and gifted, intuitive psychologists have crossed my path of late - all seeking out ways in which they can best assist the girls they care for to develop a positive body image and respond intelligently to our toxic “girl hating” culture.  
Firstly, I have thoroughly enjoyed Professor Martha Straus’ seminal work “Adolescent Girls [...]

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The Journey - from Primary to High School

Posted in Enlighten Education, Friendship, Parents, Schools, Transition to High School on Jan 21st, 2008 1 Comment »

  “Sail away from the safe harbor. Dream. Discover. Explore.”
Mark Twain.

The Enlighten team running The Journey at Ascham School.
The transition to high school for students can be exciting but also challenging as they must learn to traverse a new (and usually much bigger) landscape with different expectations and possibly with less individual nurturing than they [...]

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