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Tuesday, January 13: What is Your Relationship with Your Body?
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Location: Dobie Middle School - CANCELLED
Time: 2:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Audience: For girls
For many people, meeting society’s ideal body image has become
more important than being healthy. Society’s top solutions appear to be “a
diet” or surgery. But there are ways to change your body image without doing
damage to your body! Lynne Bannatyne, Ph.D., will discuss how learning to love
your physical appearance can positively affect self-acceptance, self-esteem and
physical health.
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Thursday, January 15: Big Tobacco Marketing Tactics to Young Women |
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Location: Redeemer Lutheran School
Time: 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Audience: For girls
Amy Hoge from the American Cancer Society joins GENaustin in our campaign against
teen smoking – oriGENal Voice – Austin Girls speaking out against big tobacco. Every year,
tobacco-related disease kills more than 178,000 women, making it the largest preventable cause of death among women in the U.S. Join Amy as she takes the mystery out of
tobacco marketing tactics that try to make you think smoking is cool, sexy, pretty and makes your life easier.
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Thursday, January 22: Girls as Friends, Girls as Foes: Strategies
for Spotting and Diffusing Relational Aggression in Your Daughter and Her Friends |
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Location: Burnet Middle School
Time: 2:40 p.m.
Audience: For girls
Peer relationships are everything in middle school. When they’re good, they’re very, very good. And when they’re bad… “Girl fighting” is
often a hallmark of middle school, and some of the most painful times in girls’ lives. Girls may express their aggression and insecurities through hurtful
words, gossip and other forms of relational violence that can damage each other emotionally. Parents can help by understanding the conflict and communicating
with their daughters. Middle school counselor Carolyn Brooks will share successful strategies for dealing with ways girls love, hurt and can heal each
other.
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Wednesday, January 28: The Roller Coaster Ride of Middle School
Years: Coping with Stress and Success |
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Location: Covington Middle School
Time: 11:05 a.m.
Audience: For girls & parents
School, friends, hormones, dances, sports, parents, drugs,
popularity, thinness. Yikes! How much pressure can young teens carry before it
begins to affect their grades, their relationships and their futures? Carolyn
Brooks, middle school counselor, will help parents and girls understand and
manage the stresses in girls lives.
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