Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters

A bold and timely work that "offers parents humor, understanding, parenting philosophy, and well-founded pearls of wisdom" (Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., coauthor of Raising Cain).

Mary Pipher reveals to parents the problems girls face in Reviving Ophelia; now in Girls Will Be Girls, JoAnn Deak offers solutions.

Looking past the "scare" stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls, Deak 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 growth, peer pressure, and media messages. The result is a masterly book that addresses the key issues for girls growing up; one that fulfills a desperate need for clear guiding principles to help mothers, fathers, and their daughters navigate this chaotic contemporary culture.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 08/07/2002
ISBN: 9780786867684
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.46w x 0.92d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/17/2002 pg. 62
Booklist 07/01/2002 pg. 1808
Library Journal 07/01/2002 pg. 111
BookPage 08/01/2002 pg. 19
Booklist 03/01/2003 pg. 1143
Library Journal 07/15/2002