Thank You for Making a Difference

Earlier this year I passed on a bit of  beauty advice from “Mom” to daughters  in my post Beauty Tips You Can Use – With Love – From Mom.

Now, I’d like to share with you more important information regarding self esteem, and how it’s especially important for moms with young tweens, pre-teens or teenage daughters, as well as grandmoms with granddaughters.

Too many girls and young women develop low self-esteem from hang-ups about looks and consequently fail to reach their full potential in later life. The Dove Self-Esteem Fund (DSEF) was established as an agent of change to inspire and educate girls and young women about a wider definition of beauty.  The DSEF is committed to help girls build positive self-esteem and a healthy body image, with a goal of reaching 5 million girls globally by 2010.  It has already reached 2 million young women.

The Dove Self-Esteem Fund is part of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, a global effort designed to widen today’s stereotypical view of beauty.  In the U.S., the DSEF supports the Boys and Girls Club of America and the Girls Scouts of the USA to help build confidence in girls 8-17 with after-school programs, self-esteem building events and educational resources.  In the United Kingdom and other countries, the Fund supports Body Talk, an educational program about body image and self-esteem in schools.  Since 2006, the Dove brand has conducted nearly 2,700 self-esteem rel=”nofollow”educational workshops around the world.

The Dove mission is to reach 5 million girls with self esteem programming by 2010. Since 2005, the brand has reached over 3.5 million girls globally. In fact, every time you buy Dove beauty care products your purchase supports the Dove Self Esteem Fund. This fall Dove launched the “Thank you for Making a Difference” program to thank supporters for building girl’s self esteem and to invite everyone to share their stories about making a difference in self esteem.

Dove will donate $1,000 to a national charity that supports self-esteem around the Holidays, on behalf of all our self esteem supporters to say “Thank You for Making a Difference”.

For More Information Visit: Dove Self Esteem Home Page

Moomette’s Magnificents  is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be two (2) winners of a Dove Package, featuring:

- 1 Plush Dove Spa Bathrobe
- 2 Dove products
- 2 Dove True You workbooks

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information may be shared with the contest sponsor in order to send your prize.

Main Rule:   (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Visit the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty site and leave a comment about what you like best about their site and how you found it helpful.

This contest will run until December 22, 2009 at 11:00 pm.

For Additional Entries, check out my Contest Entry Rules.

Open to USA & Canada

Advice to Help Our Daughters Build Self-Esteem: Dove Campaign for Real Beauty & Giveaway is a post from: Moomettes Magnificents

Related posts:

1. What Do You Wish You’d Known at 13? Dove Movement for Self Esteem October 22-24, 2010
2. Beauty Tip of the Day – Unilever Products Giveaway
3. Beauty Tips You Can Use – With Love – From Mom

When my daughters were school age, oftentimes I would drop a little surprise note into their lunch boxes just to let them know I was thinking of them during the day!  It almost served as a “good angel” ~ “bad angel” on their shoulder too ~ you know, putting the guilt trip on them?  (Bad mommy!)  Well, I guess I was ahead of my time!

I’m delighed to review Kids Lunch Box Cards ~ notes have now gone ‘High Tech!”

Pop Some fun Into Lunch!

Drop the fun into backpacks, overnight bags, coat pockets, even under a pillow. Cards are blank on the back for those days you want to write a special note or reminder. Want to send a long-distance hug? Add a stamp and drop one in the mail!

These colorful cards are full of surprises guaranteed to make lunch, or anytime, a blast! Tons of kid-tested topics sure to make any kid the center of attention at the lunch table.

A school weeks worth of colorful lunch cards full of fun facts and cool ideas:  Bugs, Fairies, Riddles, Gross-Outs…Tons of kid tested topics sure to make any kid the center of attention at the lunch table.

So, whether you send your kids off to school or home school, check these out!

The fun-filled cards are available at http://kidsfuncards.com/

Also check out their Wholesale/Retail site, as well as Fundraising information.

Moomettesgram’s Musings is hosting a giveaway!  For a chance to win a 5-pack of these cards:

Now for extra entries (each task will get you 1 extra entry):
~Subscribe to my blog through my feedburner link (on the top of my left column)
~Add my button to your sidebar or add me to your blog roll.
~Blog about the contest on your blog, linking back to my blog and the post.
~Go favorite or fan me on Technorati (the link is on my left column if you scroll down) or both.

~Tweet about this contest.

Make sure you comment separately for each task after the required entry task so you will get credit for each one ~ and leave your e-mail where you can be contacted.

This contest will run until September 26th at approximately 11:00 pm.

Advice to Help Our Daughters Build Self-Esteem: Dove Campaign for Real Beauty & Giveaway is a post from: Moomettes Magnificents

Related posts:

1. What Do You Wish You’d Known at 13? Dove Movement for Self Esteem October 22-24, 2010
2. Beauty Tip of the Day – Unilever Products Giveaway
3. Beauty Tips You Can Use – With Love – From Mom

It’s been a week now since the 3-day Wedding of the Season took place. I’ve put away the (so I thought) sexy little black Red-Carpet Runway dress that I wore. You know how you look forward to special events, and then after they take place, it’s like such a letdown that the big event is now behind you?

My youngest daughter, the college student, looked stunning in her boutique Jessica McClintock dress, and got many compliments. She’s turned into a real stunner. But I have to mention that we spent many long hours in the waiting room of dermatologist offices when she was in High School. She had tried every over-the -counter acne products and prescription medicines to try to clear up her skin.

Are you planning a wedding soon?  Perhaps you’ll be a bridesmaid this summer.

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Advice to Help Our Daughters Build Self-Esteem: Dove Campaign for Real Beauty & Giveaway is a post from: Moomettes Magnificents

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1. What Do You Wish You’d Known at 13? Dove Movement for Self Esteem October 22-24, 2010
2. Beauty Tip of the Day – Unilever Products Giveaway
3. Beauty Tips You Can Use – With Love – From Mom

It’s hard to believe that we’re almost through the summer and Labor Day is right around the corner! My youngest daughter starts her Senior year of college soon, so I’m still in the parenting Back-To-School mode. My readers know that “Rosie the Riviter” decided to move back home for her Senior Year, so rather than being an Empty-Nestor for the upcoming school year, I’m still in Mama-mode.

No longer am I worrying about having to go out and buy apartment basics for Rosie, such as pots, pans, bedding and furniture. Most of it came back safely with her when she moved back in. Some of these items disappeared via roommates and probably would have returned home had they been labeled properly. That’s where Dymo label makers come in handy.

With the whiff of Autumn, New England fall foliage and and Back-To-School on my mind, I’m flashing back to the days when I used to take the obligatory first-day-of school picture, and waiving good-bye to the kiddos on the school bus. Flashback further, and I’m the one going off to school for the first time.

My first day of school would have been 51 years ago! I was a “walker,” even in Kindergarten. We only went half-days. When I was in first-grade, we were dismissed for lunch, walked home, and then back to school again. There was no such thing as a cafeteria, and I would say 99% of the moms didn’t work, and were at home to greet us with lunch! I still carried a lunch box for snacks, and we hand-wrote our names on masking tape in crayon to distinguish Betty-Lou’s from Suzie’s. That’s where the kids today are lucky, and have all the options such as color labels to mark not only their lunch boxes, but also their backpacks! We didn’t even have backpacks ~ I can remember carrying all my books in my arms, or once, in a rubberized green carrying sack!

If you’re a mom making a Back-To-School list, don’t forget to add a Dymo label maker to that list. Buying all those school supplies once certainly adds up! Having to replace them because they weren’t labeled is something none of us wants to do!

Whether you’ll be waiving goodbye to the school bus, or home school ~ don’t forget to charge the camera battery for those First-Day-of-School photos!

Advice to Help Our Daughters Build Self-Esteem: Dove Campaign for Real Beauty & Giveaway is a post from: Moomettes Magnificents

Related posts:

1. What Do You Wish You’d Known at 13? Dove Movement for Self Esteem October 22-24, 2010
2. Beauty Tip of the Day – Unilever Products Giveaway
3. Beauty Tips You Can Use – With Love – From Mom