Trish's daughter's twin
1. What and who is P.I.N.K. Backpack?
2. Why is your company called P.I.N.K. Backpack?
3. How is P.I.N.K. Backpack different from Internet articles and other girl-power resources?
4. What age group is P.I.N.K. Backpack for?
5. What's next for P.I.N.K. Backpack?
There are many more topics I want to cover. Here are a few:
- P.I.N.K. Backpack is a handbook collection that equips parents with practical guidance to prepare girls for upcoming gender-equality opportunities. Along with developmental psychology counsel, Trish Allison is the founder and writer of P.I.N.K. Backpack books.
- After being laid off from her Silicon Valley corporate writing job at middle-age, Trish moved into the extra bedroom of a college friend in Edmonds WA and became one of America’s ‘hidden homeless.’ When she saw an Internet image of a little girl in pink glasses peering over a laptop that looked exactly like her own grown daughter, she committed to getting a day job, her own apartment, and using her writing and parenting background to create a set of handbooks that would help parents steer girls toward gender-equality confidence.
2. Why is your company called P.I.N.K. Backpack?
- Two reasons. First, I wanted to use an acronym that redefines a typically-feminine word in a positive, progressive way. Defining 'pink' as Persistent. Intelligent. Necessary. Kind. was the perfect solution. And second, I wanted to target the tween years (ages 8-12) because tweens are just starting to recognize themselves as independent beings and are still willing to look to their parents for guidance. I also wanted to use a metaphor for something that is typical of tweens (backpack) and could be filled by parents with gender-equality guidance.
3. How is P.I.N.K. Backpack different from Internet articles and other girl-power resources?
- Unlike random Internet articles, P.I.N.K. Backpack ebooks are specifically written for parents to address gender-equality issues like understanding consent, responding to gender bias, creating a gender-equal household, and the importance of female role models. Equally important, P.I.N.K. Backpack handbooks are intentionally written succinctly for busy parents who need immediate, practical, actionable advice. Time wasted surfing the Internet and sifting through long-winded theoretical verbiage is unnecessary.
4. What age group is P.I.N.K. Backpack for?
- P.I.N.K. Backpack content is written for parents of tween daughters, ages 8-12. However, we understand that there is a wide spectrum of maturity levels at every age and parents know best what is and isn't appropriate for their own children.
5. What's next for P.I.N.K. Backpack?
There are many more topics I want to cover. Here are a few:
- How to help your daughter find her passion
- How to teach your daughter basic entrepreneurial (girlpreneur) skills
- How dads (specifically) can raise mighty daughters
- How to help your daughter cope in a world of growing expectations
- How to help your daughter turn her bossiness into leadership skills
- How to teach your daughter to glean strength from failure
- How to teach your son to treat girls with respect (starting with his sister)
- How to help your daughter find practical experience for her passion
- How to help your daughter bring her invention to life