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More Teens Getting Botox

Posted: July 25th, 2010 by Michele Borba


Parenting advice to raise girls from inside out and stop the outside wrinkle-free, large-breasted, pencil thin craze. Enough!
Ask teen girls what is on their birthday wish list these days, and you may get a surprise answer: Botox! Yep, that appointed “youth wonder treatment” by the 40 something set (who rave how Botox temporarily reduces those dreaded [...]



Signs of eating disorders & 6 ways to curb troubling trend #BBParentingSolutions

Posted: February 7th, 2010 by Michele Borba


“An eating disorder? Impossible!” “Not my daughter!” Disbelief is usually our first response when we read the headlines about anorexia, bulimia and binging. But the fact is at least ten percent of all adolescent girls suffer from eating disorders. Boys now make up about 30 percent of younger children with eating disorders. The disease has [...]



Michele Borba Blog: Our Parent Mission: Raise Strong, Secure Girls from the Inside Out (and how to succeed)

Posted: November 29th, 2009 by Michele Borba


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REALITY CHECK: A five-year study of 2516 teens by the American Psychological Association found that girls who frequently read those dieting and weight loss articles are far more likely to fast, vomit, or use laxatives to lose weight. In fact, the data proved that the more frequently a girl reads those fashion magazines, the more likely [...]