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About Mitali Perkins

Mitali Perkins is the author of Ambassador Families: Equipping Your Kids to Engage Popular Culture (Brazos Press). She studied Political Science at Stanford University and Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley, and has written for Christianity Today, Discipleship Journal, Campus Life, With, Prism, War Cry, U.S. Catholic, and other periodicals. Mitali also writes fiction for young readers, including Monsoon Summer (Random House), The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen (Little Brown), Rickshaw Girl (Charlesbridge), and the First Daughter books (Dutton). She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and twin sons.

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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Verbal Sticks And Stones

The word of the day today from Urban Dictionary is "butterfaith," a noun derived from the slang insult for a girl with a great figure but an ugly face (butterface). If your daughter gets called "butterfaith," it means that guys think she's "a girl who's fun, intelligent, beautiful, perfect in every way... except she's devoutly religious." That wouldn't be a bad name compared to some of the others teen girls hear on a regular basis at school. In fact, being teased is their number one worry. Arm your daughter with the truth and some practical advice, and try and make sure that insults and name-calling don't happen at home, which should be a haven from slander and malice. The truth is that words wound, and the tongue is a fire.
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