We celebrate girls every single day here at The Get In Touch Foundation.
We are committed to providing girls with our free lifesaving breast health educational initiative because we value their lives.
If you haven't seen the really wonderful #LikeAGirl video that was released last summer but burst onto the scene as a commercial during the Super Bowl, we wanted to make sure you had the chance to see it, so here is the link - please watch, and please share it with the girls - and boys! - in your life.
When each of my now adult daughters got their first period I rejected my mom's well-intentioned suggestion to "treat the poor girl to an ice cream" as a way of somehow making her feel better about what was happening. In other words, tell them they should feel badly, and then reward them with a prize - food, of all things - for having to endure the 'trauma' of menstruation. Augh.
Instead, I gave them each a simple gold ring that held a teeny-tiny garnet, and reminded them that this was another wonderful, beautiful part of being a woman, of being a girl.
It's good to be a girl! It's good to be a boy! You know something...it's just plain good to be alive!
Hope Lives! Mary Ann Wasil
President, CEO & Founder,
Breast Cancer Kickin' Survivor & Health Activist
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