Announcing Wait awhile, our exciting initiative, encouraging teenage girls to slow down and reclaim their teenage years to avoid unnecessary regrets. Our project is backed by a comprehensive, independent, UK-wide survey, which reveals some regrets, including sexting, getting a tattoo and missing out on real-life experiences because of social media. Also, we discover regrets from women over fifty about their teen years. Find out more here
Reclaiming the teenage years
Today the UIO team launches our long awaited Wait Awhile initiative, encouraging teenage girls to slow down and reclaim their teenage years to avoid unnecessary regrets. For years now, I have watched the world of teenage girls change rather radically. I had suspected for some time that due to modern day pressures, girls were being…
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Valentine's Day Or Not
As if there isn’t enough pressure on dating as it is and crops up Valentine’s Day. Bear with, I’m not really a kill joy about this loveable day, and I do enjoy a good box of chocolates now and again and some lovely flowers, too. But the thing is, with all the hype around love…
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Time to Stop, Think and Put On The Brakes
There are some things that are better left in childhood—the way that we mismanage anger, our sole dependence on others to care for us and causing or being subjected to peer pressure just to name a few. Unfortunately, there is not always a clean break from our growing pains. Peer pressure, in particular, follows us…
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We’ve been talking about rising above odds since last October when we did Series 2: Episode 3 – Rising Above Odds with Hannilee Fish. It is a huge topic.Sometimes the odds are stacked against us owing to economics, a disability, or other complicated conditions. Hannilee talks about growing up in poverty and how she overcame….
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It’s Elizabeth as guest blogger again, this time writing about skin. Someone once said that youth was wasted on the young. With each new wrinkle that forms, I am starting to see the truth in that saying and often imagine how great it would be if I knew then what I know now. As a…
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