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		<title>5 Dangers of Too Sexy, Too Soon Ads Aimed at Our Girls</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2011/05/16/5-dangers-of-too-sexy-too-soon-ads-aimed-at-our-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 20:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders & Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empowering Girls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to buck the prolific negative, over-sexualized images advertisers are aiming at our daughters. Reality Check: This morning on the TODAY Show I shared how all the “too fast, too negative, too sexy, too soon” merchandising may impact our daughters and why parents should be up in arms. Here are highlights from that segment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Websites for Teen Girls</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2011/01/30/urgent-memo-to-parent-hot-new-internet-craze-called-the-bimbo-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Formspring]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Bimbo Game]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Parenting alert: Websites tailored to young girls that encourage negative self-image, eating disorders and cold-blooded cruelty Research is showing a clear and troubling trend in the mental health of our daughters. Eating disorders, stress, depression, smoking, binge drinking, a peer creulty are steadily rising. Though the internet is certainly not the prime cause, it can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countering A Too Sexy, Too Soon Culture for Our Daughters</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2011/01/29/michele-borba-beating-the-too-sexy-too-soon-trend-and-raise-strong-girls-from-the-inside-out-how-parents-can-counter-the-x-rated-sleazy-world-for-our-daughters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2011/01/29/michele-borba-beating-the-too-sexy-too-soon-trend-and-raise-strong-girls-from-the-inside-out-how-parents-can-counter-the-x-rated-sleazy-world-for-our-daughters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders & Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empowering Girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Self-Esteem and Empowering Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Esteem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Big Book of Parenting Solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Psychological Association study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empowering girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michele Borba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[over-sexualized culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Too Sexy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parenting advice to raise strong, secure girls from the inside out and counter those racy, raunchy &#8220;what you have to look like&#8221; type images that rob self-esteem These days it’s almost impossible to not read the diet of some pencil-slim celeb. Photos of them all to often leaving some nightclub (drink in hand) wearing some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Troubling Youth Trends in the News</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2011/01/02/seven-troubling-kid-teens-trends-of-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2011/01/02/seven-troubling-kid-teens-trends-of-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders & Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Attention Span, ADHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Big Book of Parenting Solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TODAY Show Appearance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 child development news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Botox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyberbullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early puberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michele Borba]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/?p=1809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[REALITY CHECK TIME: Bullying, depression, eating disorders, ADHD, stress, early puberty onset, plastic surgery and Botox are all on increase and in younger kids. Here is my pick of the top troubling child and teen trends, the research that shows why we better keep a closer eye on our kids, and what parents, educators and child-advocators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Puberty Onset Earlier</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/12/09/puberty-hits-girls-earlier/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/12/09/puberty-hits-girls-earlier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders & Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empowering Girls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puberty Onset Four Years Earlier American Academy of Pediatrics: Over a decade ago, Marcia Herman-Giddes, a pediatrician and now professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, noticed many young girls in grades one to five were showing public hair and breast development,” In her words, “It seemed like there were too many, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Teen Trends That Pose Health Risks</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/11/24/dangerous-teen-trends-that-pose-health-risks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/11/24/dangerous-teen-trends-that-pose-health-risks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sex and sexualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[: dangerous teen trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" ''Blaze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" ''K2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" and "Red X Dawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" Four Loko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Blackout in a can]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[caffeinated alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michele Borba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Big Book of Parenting Solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what K-2, Four Loko, Spice, Blaze, Red X Dawn, Blackout in can, and Toxing are? If not, it&#8217;s time to wise up and talk to your teens.  Here are three dangerous teen trends every parent needs to know. K-2 or Synthetic “Fake” Marijuana Teens smoke it as the new way to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Teens Getting Botox</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/07/25/more-teens-getting-botox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/07/25/more-teens-getting-botox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders & Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empowering Girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Self-Esteem and Empowering Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Late Breaking News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Disorders in Kids and Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/03/01/study-eating-disorders-rising-in-young-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/03/01/study-eating-disorders-rising-in-young-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders & Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Esteem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anorexia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study finds rise of eating disorders in younger children and boys as well as teens: 14 eating disorders signs and advice for this dangerous trend every parent must know REALITY CHECK: A new report shows that the number of children under age 12 hospitalized for eating disorders has increased 119% in last decade. “An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Disorders in Children and Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/02/07/michele-borba-blog-eating-disorders-now-in-5-year-olds-parenting-resolution-solutions-to-raise-girls-from-the-inside-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2010/02/07/michele-borba-blog-eating-disorders-now-in-5-year-olds-parenting-resolution-solutions-to-raise-girls-from-the-inside-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders & Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Self-Esteem and Empowering Kids]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/?p=1125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Parenting advice to help you identify the early signs of an eating disorder in children and what to do is you suspect your daughter (or son) has one “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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michele Borba: Parenting Alert-Fashion Magazines Affect Our Daughters&#8217; Physical &amp; Emotional Health</title>
		<link>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2009/10/16/michele-borba-parenting-alert-fashion-magazines-affect-our-daughters-physical-emotional-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2009/10/16/michele-borba-parenting-alert-fashion-magazines-affect-our-daughters-physical-emotional-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Borba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders & Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Big Book of Parenting Solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body image]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eating disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Lagerfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michele Borba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Lauren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Esteem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tween girls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Warning:  I’m ticked&#8211;or just darn-right over-the-top disgusted&#8211;about two recent events in the fashion world. First up there was top fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld’s attack on the women’s magazine, Brigitte decision to start using “normal-size women” for models instead of the pencil-thin variety. Such a concept, eh? Well, here was Lagerfeld’s comment: “These are fat mummies [...]]]></description>
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