7Wonderlicious: iPhone app to empower girls.
2011 May 19
I’ve been seeing a lot of articles lately about how disempowered girls become for every minute of television they watch. You might be interested in this article: “Commercials aimed at kids spend 55 per cent of their time showing boys building, fixing toys, or fighting. They show girls, on the other hand, spending 77 per cent of their time laughing, talking, or observing others. And while boys in commercials are shown out of the house 85 per cent of the time, more than half of the commercials featuring girls place them in the home.” While I haven’t downloaded this 7Wonderlicious app yet, I like the sound of it. Through interactive stories, it helps girls learn:
- leadership, taking initiative
- understanding that girls also can fix and build things not just boys
- helping others, supporting her community, sharing, helping out with the chores
- appreciating the uniqueness of each person, their differences. Accepting others and one self.
- identifying and celebrating her strengths.
- team work, using each-others strengths to accomplish better results and find solutions
- being adventurous and bold, trying new things, not giving up when it is hard
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Yay for girls doing things other than being princess’s and looking for fairies, while we do love fairytales sometimes its great to have a reminder that you could be a fossil hunting princess when you grow up. My little Maddy never was one for fairies; one of her favourite book series is EJ 12 Girl Hero, great chapter books about an ordinary girl who happens to be a secret agent, lots of problem solving, code cracking, adventure and fun!
Maddie your blog is awesome, and your readers leave such intelligent comments! Yay for clever and talented women!!!
What a good idea, Another idea is to remove the “free babysitter” time that you allow your children to watch
The time they are little for is such a small part of our lifes go outside, sit down and read some books and leave the house work you’ll have plenty of time to clean your house when they move out of home .
Rox
Thanks Maddie – I have just now downloaded it and I know Lulabelle will love it!
Awesome! Yeah I hate all those messages that get sent to our kids through t.v. shows, ads, magazines and the like. Yay for promoting strong, capable girls!