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Why do girls giggle so much?Why does everything have to be pink?Why are they so scary once they hit puberty?How can I stop her from marrying an idiot?
All this and more is revealed, with some surprising conclusions about what we think we know about the differences between girls and boys, and taking a few bulls by the horns along the way. With practical examples and case studies to help all fathers raising girls, there's particular comfort for single fathers worried about the lack of women in their daughters' lives. First pu... read more

In today’s increasingly complicated world, it’s often difficult for parents to connect with their daughters–and especially so for fathers. In this unique and invaluable guide, Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician with more than twenty years’ experience counseling girls, reveals that a young woman’s relationship with her father is far more important than we’ve ever realized. To become a strong, confident woman, a daughter needs her father’s attention, protection, courage, and wisdom. Dr. Me... read more

The average fifth-grade girl knows a cutter, a classmate with Asperger's syndrome, or has a friend with two fathers. Issues like these are big, and they are just drops in the bucket. A generation ago, we worried more about kidnapping and divorce than cyberbullying and prescription-drug abuse. With little personal experience in the new, complex issues that plague our daughters on a daily basis, how can parents today help their girls cope better and raise a generation of girls who are resilient and self-confident instead of insecure ... read more

In this straightforward and thought-provoking book, psychologist and parenting author Gisela Preuschoff considers the understandings that parents require to raise girls today.
The book focusses on girls' emotional and physical development, their education, social conditioning and their relationships with parents and siblings. Raising Girls also discusses the emotional and behavioural differences between girls and boys, and helps parents to gain practical understandings of their daughter from birth through to the teenag... read more

In "The Secret Lives of Teen Girls, " Evelyn Resh, the mother of a teenage daughter and a certified nurse-midwife specializing in the treatment of teenage girls, explores the mysterious world of female, adolescent sexuality and how parents--especially mothers--can help their daughters through this tumultuous time. Secrets divulged by teenage girls during consultation have made Resh realize that, with rare exception, most adolescents are left to develop a sexual identity without any adult guidance and often without the most basic kn... read more

Girls Will Be Girls offers a comprehensive road map to the many emotional and physical challenges girls ages six to sixteen face in today's changing world. Author JoAnn Deak looks past the "scare" stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls. She draws from the latest brain research on girls to illustrate the exciting new ways in which we can help our daughters learn and thrive. Most telling of all, she gives us the voices of girls themselves as they struggle with body image, self-esteem, intellectual g... read more

Why are girls as young as five years old concerned about their looks and addicted to shopping? Why are young teenage girls having sex and binge-drinking, responding to chat-room predators, and bullying their peers via email and text messages? Why are depression, cutting and eating disorders on the rise, and why, with so much choice when it comes to careers, do so many just want to marry young and have babies? Over two years Maggie Hamilton interviewed girls, teachers, school counsellors, psychologists, and law enforcement and medic... read more

Provides effective guidelines to help parents raise daughters, explaining how to avoid sexual stereotypes, widen opportunities, enhance learning, and cultivate strong, spirited, and caring young women. Original.

After the huge success of Growing Great Boys, comes this companion title focusing on girls. There are many issues today to challenge girls and their parents. This book gives support and advice to parents in the same way that Growing Great Boys has done. It follows the structure of the boys' book quite closely. It includes some general chapters on the nature of girls; girls and mothers; girls and fathers; solo parenting; preschool girls; middle years; and teen girls. Throughout the text Ian and Mary also address these topics: the... read more

The ultimate guide to raising girls.
Have you ever wondered why! / It's the end of the world if her best friend won't play with her? / She moans about wearing school uniform, then goes out dressed exactly the same as all the other girls? / She spends all day with her friends but still needs to talk to them all evening?
Written by head teachers and staff from some of the finest girls' schools in the country, Your Daughter is full of practical advice to help you negotiate the challenges of raising a daughter in the twent... read more

Moms and daughters. They can go from best friends to mortal enemies with breakneck speed. From boyfriends to curfews and from outfits to eating habits, mothers and daughters often end up in conflict about everything. Now with Side by Side¸ mothers finally have a proven program to help navigate their relationship with their daughters of any age. Dr. Charles Sophy has dedicated his career to the physical and mental health of children and families from all walks of life. Through hundreds of consultations, he found the most pro... read more

The perfect book for mums who want to share with their daughters and for daughters who can't always share with their mums...Dilvin Yasa left home knowing a lot about skydiving (her mother was an instructor) but very little about sex, drugs, sleazy men and establishing appropriate boundaries with the person who performs your pap smear. Determined not to the pass on the plague of ignorance to the next generation, she wrote a series of letters for her young daughter to read when she reaches the eve of adulthood - sharing the things th... read more

From anorexia to sex, from depression to pregnancy, the lives of teenage girls are often awash in rage and despair. Martha B. Straus, a seasoned therapist, describes how to reach the children behind this often frightening behaviour and how to help them cope. This title addresses topics such as: oppositional defiant disorder, trauma, eating disorders and attachment problems.

"Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice" is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence - hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, and murder by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow Stith and Howard R. Spivak the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence, this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.

This is a guide to breaking the mother-daughter cycle of bad body image. Explores the origins of body image and how it is passed from generation to generation. Through conversations with numerous mothers, girls, and grown daughters as well as experiences with Chadwick's own daughter, readers will learn not only about the powerful effect that a mother's self-image has on her daughter, but also why it's crucial to break the cycle of bad body image. The book tackles issues from healthy exercise to eating disorders, including: w... read more

The international bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that has always been quietly endured by girls. Through her travels, the author discovered that these girls wanted to talk - and they weren

"Required reading for parents" ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch"), now with a new introduction by the author. Upon its hardcover publication, "The Lolita Effect" started a media sensation. Now, after the book has been featured on Fox, in "People" magazine, on Salon.com, and in print and online review venues all over the country, Overlook is pleased to be publishing it in paperback. Brand name thong underwear for ten-year-olds; oversexed and underdressed celebrities gone wild; dolls with companion "sexy" clothing lines for preteen girls: h... read more