Girls and Sports

Girls Wrestling Gains Acceptance High School Girls Grapple with Male-Dominated Contact SportsA local newspaper dubbed her "The Gritty Grappler," and with good reason. At 112 pounds, Katrina Betts, a senior at Milan High School in Ann Arbor, Michi...

Linda Dobson's book Homeschoolers' Success Stories is filled with reports of athletes, artists, musicians, and others who were able to pursue their passions and achieve academic success through homeschooling. ...

A mother wonders if she should be concerned that her 12-year-old's participation in Little League hasn't been competitive this year. ...

Kids deserve more of a childhood than just going to school, doing homework, and training at the gym. ...

The athletic feats that a young female skater can perform are not so easy once she matures. ...

Raising Our Athletic Daughters Can playing sports build self-esteem and actually save girls' lives? We asked Jean Zimmerman and Gil Reavill, authors of Raising Our Athletic Daughters, to give us the scoop on how and why playing sports benefits gi...

A mother asks how she and her husband can motivate their daughter to get to the next level in sports. ...