Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.