Trish's daughter's twin
1. What and who is P.I.N.K. Backpack?
2. Why is this project 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 provides step-by-step parenting pocket guides to help girls overcome gender bias. Along with developmental psychology counsel, Trish Allison is the founder and writer of P.I.N.K. Backpack guidebooks.
- My story: After being laid off from my Silicon Valley writing job at middle-age, I moved into the extra bedroom of a college friend in Edmonds, WA and became one of America’s ‘hidden homeless.’ When I saw an Internet image of a little girl wearing pink glasses peering over a laptop that looked exactly like my own grown daughter, I committed myself to getting a day job, my own apartment, and using my writing and parenting background to start a growth-focused business that would ultimately bolster women's rights progress.
2. Why is this project 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 pocket guides 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 sized and written concisely for busy parents who need immediately accessible, 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, I 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 understand how equal pay affects her
- 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