Raising girls : how to help your daughter grow up happy, healthy, and strong / Steve Biddulph.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First US editionDescription: viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1607745755 (pbk.)
- 9781607745754 (pbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 305.23 B584 | Available | 33111007517606 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A practical guidebook and passionate call-to-arms for parents of girls that empowers them to raise confident, well-rounded daughters in an exploitative world, from the author of the international bestseller Raising Boys .
Raising a happy, healthy, well-adjusted daughter from babyhood to womanhood can be a challenge. Girls need to be strong, and in this warm-hearted book, best-selling parenting author Steve Biddulph brings together the finest thinking from around the world on how to raise daughters who are self-assured, know they are loved, and can stand up for themselves and others. With gentle humor and proven wisdom backed by decades of experience as a family psychologist and father, Biddulph shows parents of girls how to navigate the obstacles of growing up in a world that seems bent on poisoning their confidence. Biddulph also discusses:
* The five stages of girlhood, and how to help them go smoothly.
* How to deal with bullying, mean girls, and social media.
* Ways to ease the transition into the teen years.
* What you need to know about healthy body image, food, and eating disorders.
* The importance of girl's friendships and how to support them.
* How to help girls happily and confidently relate to boys.
With unforgettable success stories of girls growing up wise and warm, Raising Girls is fierce and tender; loving and concerned. It is both a detailed guidebook and a passionate call-to-arms to defend and empower girls everywhere.
Originally published: HarperCollins, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
The five stages of girlhood -- Hazards and helps : the five big risk areas and how to navigate them -- Girls and their parents.
Instructs parents on how to raise daughters of sound character who know that they are loved and can stand up for themselves and others.