More on lost childhood: "Girls, Uninterrupted" article in NYT

Earlier today I wrote a post about bikini waxes for 8-yr-olds and the scary trend of making children grow up way too fast. A friend of mine sent me the link to a NYTimes article by Jan Hoffman, Girls, Uninterrupted. It's a fascinating story about a camp where middle school girls learn to be more self confident and develop the survival tactics for "Girlworld."

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 (Photo: Shana Sureck for The New York Times)

Game time for Molly Kaissar and friends at
 the Girls Leadership Institute camp. 

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At the Girls Leadership Institute in the Berkshires, teens learn skills to survive in the "Girlworld." Sounds fun, but it also begs the question, what is happening to childhood? Why is it rushing by so fast?

I loved camp--the boating, archery, crafts--and just about everything at camp, except the food. Even though I'm decades past my camp years, I'm sure I still could learn some amazing stuff about self confidence and more. 

In an article about the camp,Girl's Interrupted, a NYT article by Jan Hoffman:

"BY the time a girl turns 14, she knows the rules of Girlworld by heart: If you can’t do the pose — hand on hip, eye roll, hair toss — have enough self-respect to go hide in a corner. Let your hair fall over your face, cover your mouth when you speak, and always end declarative sentences like this?"

Read more here: www.nytimes.com