By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.