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10/20/2026

This is true of Grown Ups too

Hey so just a reminder that if a child is doing something for attention… it means they need attention.

10/20/2026

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10/19/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cy8B7g4oY/ This is true for Grown Ups too

10/19/2026

10/19/2026

The most important work we’ll ever do won’t happen at a job or out in the world where everyone can see it. It’ll happen within the walls of our own homes. Raising good humans. Loving them well. Showing up day after day in all the small, unseen moments that nobody claps for. That’s the real legacy right there. No title, no paycheck, no achievement will ever matter more than who we raised and how we loved them. Home is where the most important work lives.

10/19/2026

We’re building their inner voice. 🌱

The way we talk to our children during their hardest moments doesn’t just impact how they feel right now. It’s becoming the blueprint for how they’ll treat themselves for the rest of their lives.

When a child makes a mistake or struggles with a big emotion, and they’re met with a harsh label or a critical tone, they learn to turn that harshness inward when they fail as adults.

However, when we meet their mistakes with grace, curiosity, and compassion, things change. We teach them how to extend that same grace to themselves down the road. ❤️

10/19/2026

I simply can not recommend this any more highly!

Today's A Mighty Girl Community Pick: "Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men" by Caroline Criado Perez. The office is set to a temperature calibrated to men's resting metabolic rate, and she is cold. Her car's crash-test dummy was modeled on a male body, and if she is in an accident, she is 47 percent more likely to be seriously injured. Her heart attack looks nothing like the ones her doctor learned to recognize in medical school, because the studies were done on men, and it may be dismissed as anxiety.

This landmark work of investigative journalism brings together hundreds of studies, court cases, and government reports from around the world to demonstrate a single quiet truth: that in almost every domain that shapes modern life -- from medicine and technology to urban planning and disaster response -- the "default human" behind the data has been assumed to be a man, and women have been paying the cost.

Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Financial Times Business Book of the Year, "Invisible Women" is remarkable less for its outrage than for its rigor. Criado Perez, who led the campaigns to place Jane Austen on the British ten-pound note and to erect the first statue of a woman -- suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett -- in London's Parliament Square, builds her argument the way a prosecutor irrefutably builds a case: study by study, industry by industry. Translated into more than thirty languages and cited by policymakers, engineers, and physicians around the world, the book has become the reference text for anyone trying to understand why a world nominally committed to equality still keeps failing women in ways so ordinary they are almost impossible to see. Highly recommended for adult readers.

"Invisible Women" is available at https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9781419735219 (Bookshop) and https://amzn.to/45wXzMu (Amazon)

For Elinor Cleghorn's history of two thousand years of medical dismissal of women's pain, from ancient theories of "wandering wombs" to modern misdiagnoses of endometriosis and autoimmune disease, we recommend "Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World" at https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9780593182970 (Bookshop) and https://amzn.to/4g3sgyQ (Amazon)

For breast cancer oncologist Elizabeth Comen's bestselling history of medicine's centuries of dismissal, mistreatment, and misunderstanding of women's bodies, told through the eleven systems of the body, we recommend "All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today" at https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9780063293014 (Bookshop) and https://amzn.to/4lKkRoO (Amazon)

For Rebecca Solnit's essay collection that gave the modern era its vocabulary for a certain kind of gendered condescension and turned it into a global conversation, we recommend "Men Explain Things to Me" at https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9781608464661 (Bookshop) and https://amzn.to/4x9onhA (Amazon)

10/19/2026

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Grief isn’t psychological. It’s neurological. When you lose someone important, your brain treats it like a fundamental threat to its understanding of reality. That person shaped how your brain predicted the world. They were part of your sense of safety. Part of your reward system. Part of how you understood what matters.

Losing them forces your brain to rebuild everything from ground zero. Your stress response stays activated. Your sleep fractures. Your motivation disappears. The fog, the exhaustion, the flatness you feel aren’t weakness. They’re your brain literally reorganizing itself because a core piece of its architecture is gone.

The symptoms feel confusing because they are. Your brain is trying to function without data it depended on. It’s searching for someone who’s no longer there. Your focus shatters because the person you focused around is missing. Your reward system breaks because the brain doesn’t know how to feel pleasure when that person can’t experience it with you anymore.

This is why grief takes time. Your brain has to rebuild from the foundation up.

10/19/2026

The 2025 U.S. Violence Experiences Survey (USVEX) found that 61% of U.S. women reported experiencing intimate partner violence in their lifetime.