For generations, grandmothers have been admonishing young mothers to, “Enjoy this time! They grow up so fast! They’ll be grown and gone before you know it!” While it was hard to imagine…
Modesty
Teen Daughter Shopping Survival Rules
I sort of dread shopping with my two teenage daughters. We inevitably end up fighting those fashion battles that are so familiar to every mom of a teenage daughter. Me:…
Cover Up Girl
Summer is here along with all the fun bright patterns and colors, sandals and pedicures … and swimsuits. When our little girls start blossoming, their natural desire to look more…
Fashioned by Faith
My daughter’s hand-me-down clothes are like gold to my friends with younger daughters. Not so much because of the money it saves them, but for the painstaking hours saved finding…
Should My Daughter Have To Wear A One-Piece To Youth Group Swim Party?
About this time of year, I begin getting letters from moms “disgusted” that their daughters cannot wear their bikinis to the youth group pool party, or that there are “no…
Shaunti Feldhahn on Modesty
Tracey chats with Shaunti Feldhahn about how her daughter was impacted by a recent talk about modesty. Were you surprised by anything in today’s video? Are you talking to your…
Dannah Gresh Talks About Talking to Teens
Read Julia’s post about Dannah’s book 6 Ways to Keep the Little in Your Girl. “When the world wants girls to grow up too fast, how do you help your…
The Return of Cleavage
A glossy new “Vogue” magazine, the August fall fashion issue, was in my purse. We were about to get on a plane, and I needed some lightweight reading material for the…
Dressing Ourselves and Our Daughters
The fashion industry and its attempts to help women accentuate their beauty began, I imagine, when Eve set to work one day to make her animal skin attire more beautiful than Adam’s. …