Boredom Isn't Bad: Dealing with the "Off-Week" Between the Holidays "Mom, I'm bored." If you have daughters home during that strange liminal week between Christmas and New Year's, you've probably heard this refrain more than once. The presents have been opened, the excitement has faded, and suddenly your girls are wandering around the house like lost puppies, phones in hand, sighing dramatically. Your first instinct might be to fix it—to plan an activity, suggest a project, or hand them a...

She's snapping at her sister over nothing. She's tearful one moment and bouncing off the walls the next. She can't seem to settle down for bed, and when she finally does sleep, she's up at dawn demanding to know what's happening today. If your daughter seems like a completely different person during the holidays, you're not imagining it—and you're definitely not alone. The holidays are wonderful, but they're also deeply dysregulating for kids. Late nights, sugar-loaded treats, disrupted...

In today's hyperconnected world, our daughters are surrounded by voices—some we know, many we don't. Between social media feeds, YouTube algorithms, and group chat dynamics, the question isn't whether our girls are being influenced, but rather: by whom, and toward what? The Invisible Influences When we think about influence, we often picture the obvious culprits: that friend who seems a bit wild, the celebrity they follow obsessively, or the trending TikTok personality du jour. But influence...