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Girls, Uninterrupted

Bravo to the New York Times for covering (finally!) a story about young women breaking away from the over-hyped ambition and passive aggressive communication so typical of mainstream adolescent girl culture. In “Girls, Uninterrupted,” Jan Hoffman writes about Rachel Simmons’ Girls Leadership Institute, a place where girls come to learn about conflict, and have a silly, unselfconscious good frickin’ time. An excerpt:

That buoyant tone is set deliberately by Ms. Simmons, who believes that middle-school girls need to relearn how to have fun, to remember the creative giddiness they enjoyed only a few years earlier. In her office in Northampton, Mass., hangs a framed note from an eighth grader: “Dear Rachel: You are the most immature adult I’ve ever ...

Bravo to the New York Times for covering (finally!) a story about young women breaking away from the over-hyped ambition and passive aggressive communication so typical of mainstream adolescent girl culture. In “Girls, Uninterrupted,” Jan Hoffman ...