Making Puberty Less Scary

Dr. Jenn appears in the Staten Island Advance:

Making puberty less scary

Tuesday, April 07, 2009
By MELISSA CHAPMAN-MUSHNICK
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE

Dr. Jennifer Austin Leigh, a San Francisco-based expert on teen girls and moms, offers parents … ideas for making puberty less awkward.

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Dr. Jenn on Divine Caroline

Dr. Jenn appears on Divine Caroline:

Hyenas: Teen, Mean, and on the Prowl

By Jennifer Leigh, PsyD

Teenagers are having sex earlier and with less emotional attachment than ever before, and this means life isn’t getting any easier for their parents—or for the teenagers themselves.

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Dr. Jenn Featured in American Airline Family

Dr. Jenn was recently featured on the American Airlines Family website. Here is in excerpt:

Girl Power
By Jordan Rane

What’s it like being a girl these days? It may be a better time than ever, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

There are the pressures of acing exams, looking good, feeling better, brimming with self-confidence, and having the social life (real and “virtual”) to match. The pressure is on, and families have to collectively come together to guarantee girls a fighting chance.

A girl’s road to building an unshakable sense of joy and self-worth looks a little bumpier when you’re on it. And in fact, “there’s no one winning recipe,” says Jennifer Austin Leigh, PsyD (aka Dr. Jenn), a San Francisco-based life coach for teen girls and their mothers, and author of Girls, You Just Don’t Get It! What Guys Want You to Know About Love and Respect (Ignite Reality, 2008). “But there are things girls and their parents need to do if they’re going to grow into fierce, proud, wonderful women who truly love themselves.” Are you a girl? Or her mother or father? Would you like to know some of these things?

To read the rest of this article, go to: American Airlines Family