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Raising Girls

Why Girls Are Different—and How to Help Them Grow up Happy and Strong

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Daughters face unique developmental challenges that parents must understand to help their girls mature and thrive in today's world. RAISING GIRLS provides parents with concrete guidelines, delivered in a distilled and easy-to-read style, for approaching their daughters' upbringing. Author, psychologist, and family therapist Gisela Preuschoff contributes her own trials and errors as a mother in addition to the wisdom attained from decades of professional experience of counseling families. She explains the key emotional and physical aspects of girls' development and details ways to form a close parent-daughter bond. Discussions also include social conditioning, family dynamics, peer relationships, communication styles, self-esteem, and education issues relevant to each stage in a girl's life, from toddler to teen to young woman. RAISING GIRLS will teach parents how to get to know their daughters better, encourage their special talents, and help them live healthy, happy lives.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 16, 2013
      Psychologist Biddulph (Raising Boys) comes around to the other half of the parenting challenge by taking on the challenges most pressing to today’s girls: sexuality, bullying, weight and food issues, alcohol and drugs, and interacting online. His recommended parenting approach consists of close monitoring of media, friendships, and activities; being a good role model; mentorship by a trusted female adult (“auntie”); and serving as a loving mentor, but not an enabling friend. Biddulph sees the foundation for girl’s strong self-esteem and healthy sexuality as beginning in the earliest years. He offers a guide to girls’ psychological growth broken down by five stages: birth, where security needs come first; toddlerhood, where enjoyment of the world is paramount; the early school years, where people skills are learned; soul-searching preteen years; and the teen years of learning to navigate life responsibly and with purpose. In addition to giving general advice, Biddulph spends time on issues that affect girls disproportionately: the complex social hierarchies in female friendships, damaging media influence, and eating disorders. The book offers solid, compassionate advice for parents who want to teach their daughters to be empowered within a culture that can belittle them.

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