For a chance to win a FREE one-year subscription to Kazoo magazine (for grounded girls, ages 5 to 10), tell me how you or someone else has inspired girls to be strong, smart, fierce and, above all, true to themselves (Kazoo’s mission) in the comments below. I’ll toss your name into a hat and draw a lucky winner sometime mid-December.
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Well as a grandma of 2 young girls I sure I & their mothers inspire them every day. I so wish I could spend more time with them to help them become great, forward thinking & kind young women. Thank you
My oldest daughter, Shannon, was and is, an inspiration to our whole family and our community. Everyone who knew her loved her. She was diagnosed with cancer and it spread to her brain. Throughout the ordeal, she was the one who made all of us laugh and when anyone came to pray with her, she always prayed for them and made sure they were comfortable. She showed us how to live and how to die and we are always conscious of her watching over us all from Heaven. It has been almost 9 years, and although she never got to meet her little niece, who is now almost 7 years old, we tell her about her Auntie Shanny all the time and I am sure she is inspired by the stories we tell her.
I have custody of my 8 year old granddaughter. two years ago, after signing up for girls scouts two years in a row and being told there was not room, I started my own troop. We now have over 40 meeting once a week at the church I work at. I’m so excited to help these little ladies be anything they want to be. We have guest speakers from our community, specifically women in mostly male dominated jobs, to prove to our girls they do not have to pick a career based on gender. We love our girls and our girls love themselves! Thank you!
This is for my great niece, who needs some guidance in todays too fast world.
I home school my daughter from age 8 to 18. My daughter and I both love cooking. For her home economic project she had to plan, set-up, and cook a CAKE party. We used the local church and invited about 5 older ladies who are good cooks. They had to help taste, grade, and enjoy the social event.
I have inspired girls to do things out in nature, grow plants, be around horses, make things for themselves and others, and take care of the environment.
I have moved back in September… Hoping that you received my change of address. I will re~ submit have a blessed week. Entering to win for granddaughter.., will enter for Grandson on something as well. They are a couple hours away from me, yet are in my heart very close…
Love, Granny Lisa R Mosier
I have amazing great nieces… I enjoy listening to them then encouraging them to pursue what interest them then follow up and see how they’re doing and if they need a listening ear to trouble shoot a problem… I also encourage them if they “fail” and use the experiance as a learning time and not a defeat.
I’m a retired school teacher whom had the joy of teaching many young ladies in a Christian school environment. The ultimate compliment I received was when a couple of parents told me that two of their three girls wanted to be English teachers because of me.
I pray that I will continue to influence and inspire young girls/granddaughters to be whomever God wants them to be.
I would like this magazine to take to the hospitals locally. I go once or twice a month and do crafts and other things like stamp collecting. A lot of times I am the sole visitor until parents get off after work. It is a magical act of love, paying it forward. My sister did this before she died in July from Stage 4 breast cancer.
Are you going to make a thumb drive with back issues? I would love to buy one or two.
Kind regards,
Robbie
Growing up, my mom’s best friend, Shirley, was also my Girl Scout Leader. She taught me so many things. How to Crochet, make ‘hospital’ corners when making a bed, how to decorate a cake. She was also my choir director, she is the reason I sing today. She is an amazing woman.
A few years ago, Shirley had a stroke. She remembers little of those times so one Sunday, when I was visiting my family in MI, we had a long chat. She would say, “I just don’t remember that but I am glad you do”. Occasionally, she would say, “OH, I do remember that, that was a good time”. Oh, to see her smile touched my heart. Such a giving woman, I was glad I could let her know how much she meant to me and how important she still is in my life. We both cried, it was a good cry.
I am a child psychologist. I work with girls age 5 and up. I encourage them to get in touch with their feelings, express and own them. This helps them to be fierce, bold and resilient in the face of life’s challenges.
When my oldest daughter was a Sophomore in High School she was chosen to attend a very honored event for a week. Everyone was so excited that she would represent our small, rural high school. However, when she saw the paperwork that she needed to fill out and return, that any student with a “disability” that would prevent them from gaining entrance to a building via a series of stairs, she was amazed and dismayed. She contacted the organization and asked if this were truly the case (this was in the early 1990’s). She was told yes, that was the case. We talked it over and she felt that if that was the case, she simply could not attend. So, she wrote a letter asking that they choose another and stated her concerns. The very next year, they changed their policy – found a building that was handicapped accessible and she felt very good about the stand she took. It was difficult as the whole community was very proud and excited that she was going; however she simply could not go – when a disabled student was not accommodated. I was and remain very proud of her, now a young mother teaching her own daughter to take a stand!
Growing up my mom always taught me that I could accomplish anything. She offered stability, understanding and reassurance that I was capable. Gender wasn’t the subject, accomplishing the goal was. If I was unsuccessful the first time there were plenty more times to get it right! Now being a mom myself I look through the eyes of her teachings. I honor what she instilled in me and now pass that on to another generation~
I am a 63 year old grandmother raising 2 girls 9 & 10. We adopted them at birth so I am the only Mom they have known. I grew up on a farm during the Women’s movement. I am instilling in them that they can do anything and be what they want to be while also doing their part to have a better world. I ave always been independent & worked hard. We now live on 5 acres in Wa. My girls are now in 4-h, have done public presentations, do competitions in dance to 400 people. & know that when they start something they finish it. I try to lead by example. They are becoming strong young women.
Oh this is my niece all the way. What a great magazine. I would love to win this for her. She 8 years old and definitely her own person and not afraid to be who she is. I credit her mother (my sister) for giving her this beautiful trait. My sister is strong and independent and my niece has definitely gotten this from her. Her father doesn’t hold her back and encourages her to be proud of who she is. My niece is a little firecracker all the way and loves life and loves helping people.
Wow!! What a super good idea for a magazine !!! I have a granddaughter and many girls at my Elementary School who would really be empowered by reading this type of magazine. So many feel inferior to others because they have no outlet and connection to interests that are special to them. Not everyone is playing sports or cheerleading. Find your heart and follow it !!!
As a former elementary school librarian, it was always difficult to find an age approrpriate magazine for young girls which empowers them and offers an alternative to the typical fashion or star mag.
I love teaching young girls to sew and quilt. I have volunteered at special needs schools and Girl Scout venues. I am working on a program for my local quilt guild in April 2017. We are having a special hands on program for daughters, granddaughters and their friends.
I love the idea of having a magazine for girls. I taught school for 17 years and I always encouraged girls to be involved in science and arithmetic. These are areas that girls are typically underrepresented. Additionally, I’m very involved in raising my granddaughter, I encourage her to try to do anything.
I am and continue to encourage my 7 year old Granddaughter to be strong and as
independent as possible at her age. She is bright and making very good grads in school. She lives on a small ranch and has learned the responsibility of caring for the
animals. When needed she will keep an” eye on” her 4 year old brother. They also play well together. Her future looks bright for whatever she chooses to do.
Inspiration … check out TAI, RAINN, BROOKE SHEPPARD of Bronx, NY, Jeuness Track Club, coach Jean Bell … three sisters who live in a homeless shelter with their mom who are on the cover of Sports Illustrated for Kids as SPORTKIDS OF THE YEAR!
I grew up reading American Girl magazine( and the historical based books)! I feel like there were some great stories in there that really shaped who I was as I was going into my middle school years. The women teachers in my life were also big role models. And now I find myself searching for these type of magazines for my daughter.
My oldest daughter is the strongest woman I have the pleasure of knowing. She has overcome many personal adversities, while taking each lesson learned forward in her life. She’s been the best aunt to her nieces, all the while quietly and gracefully waiting for her very own child. She’s had authentic joy for her sister and her pregnancies, and loved those little girls with all her heart.
After much heartache and patience; one year ago, baby Clover chose the most grateful, loving person to be her mother.
My nieces would love to have a magazine that would be reminder of the strong woman they already have in their lives.
I have a grand girl, 7 years old, who has had to deal with a mother who is an addict while living with her other grandma full time and with me every other weekend. We have many talks about truth and being brave. She is an amazing girl! ♡ She forgives, loves and is wise beyond her years! She would love a magazine like this! Thank you.
My mother always told the four of us girls, “There are worse things than being single.” I never felt like I’d better rush out and get married. I had a career and led a full single life before marrying my husband when I was near thirty. That was an amazing gift to encourage us to be content with ourselves.
I have identical twin granddaughters, Amber and Brenna. When they were really little we thought it was cute to dress them alike but we came to realize quickly that although they looked alike, they were 2 different girls with their own unique personalities. My husband and I look for ways to enhance their oneness. Amber has become a tomboy while Brenna has shown an interest in sewing. We will continue to foster their dreams and interests knowing that they can do anything if they just try.
I lost my Mom when my own daughter was just 8 weeks old. I struggled. I missed her. I continued on because I had a daughter to raise and she would want me to do my very best. Now Audrey is a beautiful 9 year old girl and I can’t help but imagine how proud my mom would be of her. You see, I don’t/can’t remember most of the advice Mom had given me through the years because I took our time together for granted. However, one nugget has remained and I can clearly hear her say “I did not raise you to be a cookie cutter.” I am doing my best to raise Audrey in that fashion. She is her own unique self that has a heart of gold, an independent nature, a zeal for adventure and all things learning, and I am a better person for having her in my life. I thank my Mom for her wisdom and I pray I continue to raise the girl that will become the woman I know she is destined to be.
Laura, GA
Just thought this would be a great magazine for my two great nieces Isabella and Mia ages seven and six