Awesome Thoughts from our Blog

Playing sports is a sure-fire way to help girls develop their superpowers of strength, confidence, and leadership. Through sport, we learn how to collaborate, how to compete, and how to make progress over time through consistent effort. Sport has the added benefit of teaching girls to respect and value their bodies. Through sport, girls learn they can be strong and that strength is a good thing.

We've teamed up with Bethany at Math Geek Mama to create a fabulous, fun, and easy craft for Pi Day!

Pi-lentines!

It’s the two-year anniversary of our Kickstarter finish, and we are so happy to be here, doing this work we love that our backers made possible - making awesome clothes for awesome girls. Here’s our quick update from the past year.

Children often feel powerless (and sometimes they complain because of it). As parents we can show them that they always have the power to take some action, even if that action is acceptance. What can we do to help them regain a sense of control? We can help them learn to reframe their perspective as choice-based. We can show them that they can choose how to react to the problems they face by taking action or by letting it go.

More than any other measure, our passion for what we’re doing, combined with the determination to get better at it, predicts whether we will succeed. If we want to empower our children to achieve their goals, we can do two things: help them discover what they’re interested in, and teach them the self-regulation needed to stick with it.

Tana and Myla Zapf are the teen inventors of Curly Petz, currently on Kickstarter to raise funding to put their idea into production.

From Necessitees.co Founder Karina Dixon: "I wanted to start a business that would give a percentage of every sale back to helping end diaper need. I was already working full-time, volunteering with other organizations and focused on life with my husband, Sean, and Eliot. But the idea of starting a business of my own that would give back just wouldn’t go away. I had a background in operations and HR, and Sean’s technical and marketing expertise made him the perfect partner to help me get things off the ground."

A child may know how to narrate stories effectively, but writing them down can be difficult. We can help our children develop the skills and motivation to feel comfortable expressing thoughts in writing at a young age. To empower a child to write, we can help them see that writing is a skill they can learn, and that it’s not just useful – it’s fun! Here are five ways to empower a child to write.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just for you, here are some awesome Princess Awesome geeky, math-y, science-y valentines. Just print, color, and sign! There are 8 total - here's a preview of four of them.

“You are not only extremely beautiful, but intelligent beyond what you even recognize.”

I wish someone had shared these words with me as a girl growing up. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York by a single immigrant mother, more things seemed pressing than the need for positive affirmations. I was always told that hard work was inevitable for success and that good company was essential for good character so that was my focus throughout my adolescence.

I am extremely fortunate to have an expert laundress as my mother-in-law. Her father was a tailor, and she learned to care for fabrics and do laundry (well!!) from him.

I asked her what to do to keep the fabric from fading.  Here's the secret!

We live in a world full of choices.

This can be a wonderful thing as your daughter grows up because she can try so many different hobbies, sports, trends, career paths, books, technology tools, and more. However, with the plethora of choices also comes the challenge of encouraging her to make strong choices.